Home Maintenance

Install Energy-Efficient Lighting

One of the simplest and most energy-efficient sustainable house upgrades you can make is upgrading your lighting, which also happens to be a very easy upgrade. A typical customer can save approximately $225 annually by switching to LED lights, which use up to 90% less energy than conventional bulbs. Smaller lighting adjustments can also have a significant impact on your energy costs.

Use Recycled Materials

When improving a home consider reducing, recycling, and reusing. New buildings and renovations frequently result in a large amount of needless trash. The majority of the time, there is a gap between the location of the materials for your house and their eventual disposal. Many homeowners are unaware of how much trash may be offset and money can be saved when furnishing (or in some circumstances, even building) a home with refurbished or recovered materials. Think about utilizing reused materials while remodeling a portion of your house, whether it be adding new flooring, cabinets, doors, or something else entirely. Reclaimed or repurposed materials (wood, floors, doors, beams, copper, etc.) are still structurally solid and come in surprising quantities and costs. Availability of reused materials continues to be the biggest barrier to maintaining this approach.

Eco-Friendly Paint

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are man-made substances that are manufactured and used in the production of paints, medications, and refrigerants, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. These substances, which are released into the atmosphere as gases, contain toxic chemicals and carcinogens that can have an adverse effect on human and environmental health over the short and long terms. VOCs are primarily present in older or less expensive products these days. So be sure to select a paint product free of these compounds if you're planning a paint-related home repair project.

Start a compost bin

Finding a means to reduce, reuse, or recycle the over 300 million tons of waste produced annually in the United States can have a significant positive environmental impact. You can convert your waste into organic material that can be added to soil to promote plant growth by starting a compost bin. Composts let you fight climate change one banana peel or used coffee grind at a time. Healthy soil is essential to combating climate change.