It's easy to cut back on the amount of energy consumed in your home, but, what if you live in an RV -or- go camping for a few months.
Simply follow these 10 energy and water saving suggestions and discover the good you can do for nature and your wallet.
1) Get a quality holding tank heater and set the thermostat no higher than necessary for RV living uses.
2) When hiking away from your recreational vehicle for more than a day,turn the water heater control to a low temperature setting.
3) Wrap water lines with inline pipe heaters from holding tank to place of use.
4) Leaky faucets waste tremendous amounts of water. A small leak that fills a coffee cup in 10 minutes wastes 3,280 gallons of water a year. And, if it's hot waer, you're wasting fuel as well.
5) If you need to boil water, start with water from the hot water tap ... part of the heating job is already done.
6) If your RV is equipped with a dishwasher, wash a full load of dishes. Dishwashers use approximately 15 gallons of hot water. Washing by hand could use as much as 20 gallons.
7) Use only cold water when operating a food disposer. With hot water, the disposer doesn't work efficiently and the energy used to heat the water is wasted.
8) Insert a showerhear restrictor to limit the amount of waterwasted while showering.
9) When shaving, partially fill the basin with hot water rather than letting the hot water go down the drain.
10) Don't wast water. If it's hot water, you're wasting the energy it takes to heat it.
These 10 Tips Brought To You By: UHI Worldwide
