How to save Water and Energy around the home

How to Save Water and Energy in your home

It’s important to use water efficiently around the home and garden. With careful planning water usage can easily be reduced.

At Bunnings we have a range of water saving solutions for your home, and the team are on hand to offer all the advice you need to save water.

How to Brochures available at Bunnings

How to save water in the garden
How to install a water saving dripping system
How to save water around the house
How to fit a water saving shower head
How to fix a leaking tap



Water Saving tips
Save water in the garden
You can save water whilst still maintaining a great garden; here is a list of some of the products available at Bunnings that can help you save water in the garden.
- Tap Timers
- Potting mix/ Mulch/ Compost
- Soil wetters
- Rainwater tanks
- Trigger nozzles

Save water around the home
By reducing water consumption around the home you can also save money, here are some of the products available at Bunnings to help you save water around the house.

- Dual Flush Toilets
- Water saving shower heads
- Flow Controllers

Tips on Energy Saving

Insulation:

It’s commonly believed that insulation is important in keeping your home warm in winter.

Windows and doors are a major avenue for cold air to enter the home. While there are a variety of treatments available such as tinting and glazing, there are some simple, low cost, old fashioned ways to keep the heat in.

Permanent door seals can be easily applied, as can weather stripping to doors and windows to help seal any draughts. Additionally gaps and cracks in floors and walls can be effectively sealed with filling compounds.

Draught stoppers (snakes) cost very little and can be easily placed against doors and prevent the heat escaping.

Make sure curtains and blinds to keep the heat out and the cool inside during the day. You should also close off the rooms you’re not using which will help your immediate space warmer, faster and save on energy consumption.

DIY Brochure you need – How to winter-proof your house, How to install weather stripping for windows
Products – Bradford Ceiling and Wall Insulation, Greenstuff ceiling, wall, underfloor and sound insulation, retrofoil, door and window seals.

Hot Water:

Taking a shorter shower! There are a variety of shower timers available which can help to monitor the time taken.

When washing clothes and dishes make sure that you use cold water instead of hot and select the eco-cycle where possible.

If you are going away for the weekend switch off your hot water system completely every time.

Installing a water saving showerhead helps you use much less water as well as requiring less energy to heat the water.

Insulating your pipes with lagging is an easy and effective way to maintain your hot water temperature, which helps to reduce the energy needed to heat water again.


Lighting:

Lighting actually accounts for about five per cent of the energy consumption of an average home and around nine per cent of our greenhouse gas emissions.

There are a number of lighting alternatives now, which help to reduce your energy consumption.

By replacing your traditional light globes with Compact Fluorescent Lamps you can save up to 80 per cent on lighting costs. There are a number of alternatives to choose from and it’s important to understand the different wattage and colours that are available in CFLs.

You can also use solar lighting in the garden during summer months to save on energy when you’re spending more time outside. Solar garden lights store heat from the sun during the day and use it to power light when it gets dark. This allows you to make the most of the natural light and save on energy at the same time.

Another way to save on lighting is to use motion sensors, timers and torches to make sure that external lights only turn on as required.

Turn off your lights when not in use! It’s a common myth that switching lights off then on uses more energy.