We've always been conscious of saving energy for both reasons of cost to self and cost to the planet. Over the years we've managed to trim down our usage and keep costs reasonable but recent events are making us think harder of ways to perhaps save even more without sacrificing too much of our life style.
It occured to me yesterday that while most people have probably done or thought about dropping the heating down a point our two, have they considered their fridges and freezers. If these are set too low you're probably using more energy unnecessarily. Equally if your freezer is unnecessarily full it will need more energy to keep it cool.
Overnight I monitored the temperature of our fridge and frezeer. The recommend temperature for freezers is -18degC and for fridges is between 0 - 5degC.
Our freezer was running at -25degC so I'll be turning that up a shade. The fridge was running at 6degC so that needs to go down a bit.
So if you have any energy saving tips add them here.....
It occured to me yesterday that while most people have probably done or thought about dropping the heating down a point our two, have they considered their fridges and freezers. If these are set too low you're probably using more energy unnecessarily. Equally if your freezer is unnecessarily full it will need more energy to keep it cool.
Overnight I monitored the temperature of our fridge and frezeer. The recommend temperature for freezers is -18degC and for fridges is between 0 - 5degC.
Our freezer was running at -25degC so I'll be turning that up a shade. The fridge was running at 6degC so that needs to go down a bit.
So if you have any energy saving tips add them here.....