Using Your Lawn’s Landscape to Cut Energy Bills
Anyone who says you can not “kill two birds with one stone” by becoming more energy efficient is absolutely wrong! There are ways to reduce your home energy costs and the beautiful landscape of the farm and in turn, can increase the value of your home.
A well designed landscape
* Reduce energy costs in summer and winter dramatically
* Protect your home against winter winds and summer sun
* Reduce consumption of water, pesticides and fuel for landscaping and lawn care
* Help control noise and air pollution
By planting trees in the best locations, you can save up to 25% of your energy consumption at home for heating and cooling, which ends range from $ 100 to $ 250 per year. In less than 8 years, you’ll probably earn back the money you put into the landscaping of the lawn to begin. And, as mentioned above, you are realistic to add value to your property in the process.
“The shade and evapotranspiration (the process by which a plant actively moves and releases water vapor) from trees can reduce the temperature of the surrounding air as much as 9 degrees Fahrenheit.” In Furthermore, the temperature directly under the tree to fall degrees Fahrenheit to as much as 25. Besides all this, the cost of air bills were reduced state by almost 15% to 50% by using properly placed landscape architecture.
Depending on the part of the United States, you see, the wind chill factor to a problem during the winter. As you know, this can significantly reduce the temperature of several degrees. Adding trees and fences as a shelter, you can protect your home against the biting wind. When the cold wind hits the walls and windows of your home, reducing the temperature inside, resulting in more heat is needed to compensate for this reduction in temperature. With the landscape of these additions, we can counteract the negative result of cold air and avoid having to run the heater as high or as often.
Strategies Landscaping by Region
* Temperature
o Maximize the effects of warming sun in winter
o Maximize shade during the summer
o DEFLECT winter winds away from buildings
o summer breezes funnel home
* Hot-Arid
o provide shade to cool roofs, walls and windows
o Allow the summer winds, access naturally cooled homes
o Block or deflect winds of air conditioning at home
* Humidity Varma
o breezes of the Channel was at home
o Maximize summer shade with trees that still allow penetration of low sun angle on winter
o Avoid locating planting beds close to home if they need frequent watering
* Cool
o Use dense windbreaks to protect your house against the cold winds of winter
o That the winter sun to reach windows oriented south –
O South Shade and west windows and walls of the direct summer sun, if summer is a problem of overheating
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