Top 6 Household Power Consumption Appliances

It is a reasonable and sensible action to tighten our belts and cut spending as living cost are climbing nowadays. We have to make small sacrifices if we want to survive the economic crisis which we don’t know when it will be ended.

For some folks cutting down expenses are difficult, but actually it is not going to be hard as we thought. Starting with small changes like re-arranging your home power consumption to be energy efficient would be a good start. If you manage to save some bill on household power consumption a bit often, the accumulation effect over a length period of time will be enormous. At the end it can help you in better shaping your financial situation.

It is not surprising that utility bill is the top three expenses in home expenditures along with petrol and food. Is there any way we can reduce money we spent on house power consumption monthly? Well, it is obvious that you can’t choose the cheaper tariff group for your electricity bill, because it is based on your initial electricity installation. The thing that you can do to cut down household power consumption is by reducing power source usage and further reduces home power consumption itself.

You know that you can decrease home power consumption to further reduce monthly utility bills. Now start looking at your appliances inside you house, which are the most hungry power among them? You should also take consideration on the duration when using such devices, how long you use them? The biggest power hungry appliances is also depends on the watt power consumptions and how often you use them daily.

In short, appliance energy efficiency can be achieved by reducing duration or simply use the equipment for a shorter period. You can not justify that one device is the culprit for your big monthly electricity bill, because it also depend on your family usage and needs. OK, now after we get a better understanding of how appliances use power, here are top 6 Household Power Consumption Appliances in your home. Please follow the suggested steps to use them more efficiently and commensurate your family needs:

Television Sets
Have you experienced that your TV sets is ON all day long, even though no one is watching it? Or perhaps you frequently fall asleep in front your TV while watching? If it sounds familiar for you, then it is a good idea to set timer to turn off your TV automatically. You can save some of “unattended time” power consumption. It is also a good practice when turn off your TV, turn OFF them completely, not just in standby mode. TV set still consumes some electricity to maintain it standby mode.

Should you have a digital TV, it is far better in reducing power consumption compare to analog TV. But please make sure that the TV is having a good record for appliance energy efficiency. How you know it? Well, usually there is a sticker on a new TV which gives an idea of its level of power consumption appliances. LCD TV is known having less power consumption compare to Plasma TV. LCD TVs beat plasma screens “hands down” in appliance energy efficiency terms. CRT TV (or tube TV) is not so good in handling power consumption, this is due to much of its electronic component is not created with appliance energy efficiency in minds.

Water Tanks
Make sure that your water tank equipped with tank jacket to insulate them. This is usually needed if you have an antique —old model— heating power for your water tanks. Newest models are already fitted out with this insulation to prevent heat loss. It is also a good practice to turn your thermostat scale further down on some occasion if necessary. In addition to that, you can identify based on you previous usage pattern: when you usually need to use hot water and when this is not always the case.

Vacuum Cleaner

When buying a vacuum cleaner, more sucking power doesn’t always relate to more cleaning ability. You should choose vacuum cleaner that commensurate with your house and furniture requirement. There are lots of models and brand you can choose from. You can further reducing the usage by not dawdling when vacuuming. Now when you buy a new vacuum cleaner, it is time for you to try with brand new vacuum cleaner that can reduce you household power consumption.

Light Bulb
How many lamps you have for brightening your house, park, garage, and backyard? You should realize that some of them are not necessary. The worst case is some of them even switch ON all day long, even in the daylight. You can start reducing your household electricity consumption by changing light bulb with a more efficient lamp with the same power illumination output. They are available in convenience store around you. Please start a habit to switch off the light once you are exiting that particular room or area.

Kettles
Do you have a habit for overfill water to your kettles to boil water? At first you thought you will need to full your kettle for making a couple of tea and coffee, but more than often the remaining water goes to drain. This is one way of wasting you household power consumption as kettle is know to absorb big heat to boil water. The other thing is you not necessary to boil water completely, just enough hot will do.

Toasters
Have you ever think for a moment that double toaster is actually using twice power as much as a single side toaster to cook bread? That means you wasted half of energy just for baking a single piece of toaster. Well, the bread taste is not much different if you ask me, but the cost efficiency is significant if you bake them by single side toaster. You can save hundreds of dollar a year just by changing your toaster to more low power single bread toaster. (Photo:Clean Wal-Mart)