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Kitchen Clampdown
Have you put off reviewing sustainable living tenets and checking them against your own home life? Do you get the uneasy feeling your house isn’t all it’s cracked up to be? Time to move forward. Household green living clampdowns are a Sustainable boot camp.
Even one of these actions is praiseworthy. But completing all five is meritorious. Here are the five clampdowns your home needs to be more sustainable and efficient now.
1. Police Heat Leaks
Heat links in winter become costly if unrepaired. Over time repairs can probably happen if locating the right contractor happens. It’s best to locate the issue before too long and assess these problems before the summer season hits. That’s the last season where repairs can happen before next winter sets in.
2. Follow the Drip
The dripping noise won’t go away by itself. Worse, if it does, the faucets might freeze or get more compromised due to mold or misplaced water pressure. Even a steady drip from a garden hose could signal a problem burgeoning elsewhere.
Locating dripping faucets and evaluating pipe pressure can save thousands of dollars in flooded basement costs and soggy wall repair. The estimate will escalate the longer the damage goes on. It’s always going to be worse the longer you leave the problem. Try to barter services if costs spiral quickly out of bounds.
3. De-Cide the garage
Get rid of pesticides, fungicides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers and artificial nutients in the garage, potting area, and garden shed. Do your part to clear ground water quality and better the water table by providing less nitrates and alge overfill. NB: Boiling water killds weed nontoxically!
Mulch soil and cover ground to eliminate weeds the old fashioned way. Use organic methods like ash, herb planting, and leaving out beer for night prowling slugs. Put some elbow grease into hoeing the soil to resist weeds.
4. Green the Kitchen
Get green tough on your kitchen. Clean coils on your refrigerator and install a filter for water. Install a drainage board and a fitted soaping dish for all day dish rinsing and soaking. Mix up vinegar and lemon and baking soda and borax based green cleaning solutions. Discard pots without lids and increase cooking efficiency. Provide standby waste oil or fat runoff containers for solid versus drain disposal.
Make lists of re-use and recycling solutions to remind kids, visitors and residents what to save. Eggshells for plant health and pest prevention, sorting areas for glass and aluminum, a shelf for folded containers and flattened cartons. Make menu schedules for meals and snacks to cut down on “staring into the refrigerator” time.
5. Examine Energy uses
Evaluate the efficiency of the refrigerator, to the gas versus electric burners, to placement of the drying rack for clothes next to the oven. Make a daily energy sue plan that utilizes the best yield for energy expended. Do you bake at night? Do a load of laundry beforehand to dry off on a rack near the kitchen area. Minimize voltage drain for recharging appliances and change light bulbs to lower energy uses.
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