Remodeling your kitchen or bathroom can be a great time to think about cutting your utility bill, helping the environment, and making your home and family healthier. With just a few simple ideas, your kitchen or bathroom remodel can help your home become more energy efficient with energy usage and conservation. Consider a few inexpensive ways to have a healthy home and improve your remodel.
If you are wasting water, you are wasting energy. Consider this while in the process of your kitchen or bath remodel. Speak to your contractor about checking for excess moisture, condensation, or water intrusion prior to work being done. You should look at high efficiency solar water heaters or insulating water pipes. Other simple ideas are to opt for a single low-flow shower head instead of spending a ton of money on multiple shower heads.
Other ideas to create a more energy efficient home are to have your contractor install wall-mounted toggle switch plates for outlets to make it easy to cut off power to items you are not using. Consider insulating around any recessed lighting, especially those that are built into un-insulated attic spaces. These areas can cause major air leaks.
There are a number of ways to make sure your remodel is done with total energy efficient practices.