Home & Garden Home Appliances

How to Save Energy and Money With Your Refrigerator

Refrigerators today are energy efficient to begin with.
Most of them have Energy Star certifications which renders them capable in gobbling up less energy.
This means you consume less energy and pay less energy bill.
However, you can still stretch that out a bit.
Not be too frugal, conserving on energy helps a lot in preserving Nature.
Appliances that produce heat and defy heat can be detrimental to Mother Nature so little things are helpful.
Here are a couple of refrigerator energy conservation tips: Tip 1: Make sure the door is sealed tightly and no air is escaping.
When your refrigerator door is open, cold air escapes and this makes the machine gobble up more on energy and produce cold air.
That translates to more figures in your next bill.
Do yourself and Mother Nature a favour and ensure that it has tightly sealed doors all the time.
There are also machines that have an alarm system.
The alarm goes off when the door is left open for a period of time.
Tip 2: Get rid of spoiled food and make room for more.
Use as much room in the compartments as you can.
When there is more space inside, it produces more cold air which will then gobble up more on electricity.
You can also fill out those unused pitchers with water or juice if you do not have food to stock up.
This should keep your machine busy.
What is great about this is that you will not need to buy an expensive water dispenser anymore.
Tip 3: Clean your refrigerator once or twice a year.
I do not mean the inside of the machine but the coil parts.
See the manual and find out how you can clean this area.
Keeping it clean helps keep it in sane functioning.
If it is too dirty, it may need to exert more effort in keeping your machine cool all the time.
Tip 4: Get one with a separate door for the chiller.
A top freezer or a bottom freezer type of refrigerator is better in two ways.
The first one is that it is much smaller so there your machine does not have to double its efforts in cooling the inside up.
The second reason is because it has a separate door for the chiller.
This way, not much air is escaping when you open just the chiller or just the refrigerator.

Leave a reply