Are you concerned about higher utility bills this upcoming cold season? Here are 3 simple lighting design tips to help manage your energy use during the darker days of fall and winter.
As the dark nights loom closer, it’s nearly the time of year when the only daylight you see is fleeting. Making sure that your home’s lighting design gives you the perfect mix of lighting for all times of the day is more important than ever.
In fact, hiring professional electrical services to update your home lighting for the fall/winter can have many benefits, including:
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3 Lighting Design Tips to Lower Your Utility Bills This Winter
Fall and winter in Calgary mean dark mornings and evenings and this shortage of natural light means that your home lights will be on even longer, greatly increasing your utility bills. If you want to keep your costs low, then it’s important to adjust your lighting design to minimize usage and ensure your bulbs are as energy-efficient as possible.
Here are some simple tips to help get you started:
1. Use Your Outdoor Lighting Only When Needed
While outdoor lighting is absolutely essential to keep your home and loved ones safe, leaving them on unnecessarily can be very costly. Some of the ways to keep your utility bill down include:
2. Dim Your Lights
One of the biggest lighting design aspects you shouldn’t overlook during the winter is the importance of a dimmer. Not only do dimmers control the level of light needed for any given situation (e.g. a medium light for watching TV and low light for bedtime), they also reduce the amount of energy your light uses, saving you money on your energy bills.
Don’t have dimmers in your home?
Making the move from switches to dimmers is simple and easy when you hire a professional electrical service. In addition, this transition is relatively inexpensive considering your possible energy savings!
Tip: Many designer lighting fixtures come with dimmers built in already, so make sure to talk to your electrician about all your options.
This single step will be one of the best you can take if you’re looking to save money on lighting this fall/winter. At FML, we offer affordable and convenient LED retrofit options, which involve renovating your existing lighting fittings to make them compatible with LED bulbs.
An LED retrofit will:
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