by HomeReadyInspections | Dec 8, 2022 | Energy Tips, Heat & Cooling
Heat pumps offer an energy-efficient alternative to furnaces and air conditioners for all climates. Like your refrigerator, heat pumps use electricity to transfer heat from a cool space to a warm space, making the cool space cooler and the warm space warmer. During...
by HomeReadyInspections | Dec 8, 2022 | Energy Tips, Heat & Cooling
Residential Meters You can read your own residential meters to help monitor your electric or gas energy use. During the heating season, your energy use should be compared to the number of heating degree days for the same time period; during the cooling season, compare...
by HomeReadyInspections | Dec 8, 2022 | Energy Tips, Heat & Cooling
In order to make a room comfortable in hot, humid climates, an air conditioner must lower the indoor humidity level as well as the air temperature. If an air conditioner fails to lower the humidity adequately, the air will be cool, but will feel uncomfortably damp....
by HomeReadyInspections | Dec 8, 2022 | Energy Tips, Heat & Cooling
Radiant cooling cools a floor or ceiling by absorbing the heat radiated from the rest of the room. When the floor is cooled, it is often referred to as radiant floor cooling; cooling the ceiling is usually done in homes with radiant panels. Although potentially...
by HomeReadyInspections | Dec 8, 2022 | Energy Tips, Heat & Cooling
Three-quarters of all homes in the United States have air conditioners. Air conditioners use about 6% of all the electricity produced in the United States, at an annual cost of about $29 billion to homeowners. As a result, roughly 117 million metric tons of carbon...
by HomeReadyInspections | Dec 8, 2022 | Energy Tips, Heat & Cooling
In low-humidity areas, evaporating water into the air provides a natural and energy-efficient means of cooling. Evaporative coolers, also called swamp coolers, rely on this principle. By passing outdoor air over water-saturated pads, the water in the pads evaporate,...
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