Using the landscape of your lawn to cut energy bills
Whoever says you can not "kill two birds with one stone" by becoming more energy efficient is absolutely wrong! There are ways to reduce energy costs in your home while adding beautiful landscapes to the yard and, in turn, probably increases the value of your home.
A well designed landscape:
* Cut your energy costs dramatically summer and winter
* Protect your home from winter wind and summer sun
* Reduce water consumption, pesticides, fuel and maintenance landscaping and lawn
* Help the noise and air pollution control
Planting trees in optimal locations, you can save up to 25% of energy consumption for home heating and cooling, which ends up being anywhere from $ 100 to $ 250 annually. In less than 8 years, you've probably gained back with any money you put into landscaping the lawn to begin. And, as stated above, you are lifting realistic value of your home in the process.
The "Shading and evapotranspiration (the process by which a plant actively moves and the water vapor from the unlocked) from trees can reduce surrounding air temperatures as much as 9 degrees Fahrenheit." Furthermore, the temperature directly below the tree can be reduced by as much as 25 degrees Fahrenheit. Just as all of that, the cost of accounts of the summer air condition can be reduced by as much as 15% to 50% with the help of landscaping properly localized.
Depending on what part of the United States you are located inside the wind chill factor can be an issue during the winter. As you know, this temperature can drop drastically by several degrees. Adding trees and fences and guard-breeze, you can shield your home from the piercing wind. When the freezing cold wind hits the walls and windows of your house, inside temperature decreases, causing more heat to be needed to compensate for this reduction in temperature. With these additions to the landscape, you can counteract the negative results of this cold air and avoid having to operate the heater as high or as often.
Landscaping Region strategies
* Temperature
or maximize the effects of warming in the winter sun
or maximize shade during the summer
or deflects winter winds away from buildings
Funnel summer breezes toward the home o
* Hot-Arid
or provides the curtain on the roofs, walls and windows, fresh
or allow summer winds to access naturally cooled homes
or blocks or deflects the winds away from air conditioned homes
* Hot-Humid
Channel summer breezes toward the home o
or maximize summer shade with trees that still allow winter sun penetration of low angle
or prevents establishment locate beds close to home if they require frequent watering
* Fresh
or use breezes dense rangers to protect the home from cold winter winds
or allow the winter sun to reach south-facing windows
or shade the windows of the south and west walls of the direct sun of summer, if summer overheating.
