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When it comes to safe and effective property management, one of the main problems that you can face is keeping your energy bills in line with what you can afford. For most homes, heating and cooling of a home can account for – on average – half of your annual energy output and billing. To keep your home or your office space as comfortable as possible, you need to have cooling equipment that can handle high demands. To help you make sure that you make the right pick regarding the systems best suited to your budget and needs, keep reading on.

Installation of the right kind of unit is, first of all, the most important part of this process. You simply cannot install the wrong kind of unit and then expect to notice both an improved quality of life and a comfortable energy bill at the year’s end!

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RATING EFFICIENCY

First off, you want to keep an eye on the efficiency of a heating pump or an A/C unit. Knowing how much input you are getting today is very important as it can help to determine just how much savings you are making versus how much money you are wasting. This can be a pretty significant issue and it takes the right approach to get around this. To start, look at the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Ratio – SEER – to see how you stack up.

The higher the rating, the more cost-effective it is. This means that you want something with as high a SEER rating as you can afford. Right now, the lowest legal rating that you can buy is a 13, so anything above 13 should be your aim. The highest units that most tend to look for will have a SEER rating of 18.

Many people, though, are still undervaluing this process and could be using systems with a rating as low as 10. If this sounds like you then it might be worth considering investing to change this.

For many homeowners, even a 13 SEER limit will help to save a lot of money monthly and annually. Your average ratings could be improved by as much as 20% if you are using a 10 SEER model. If you are on a 12 SEER model, you could still save around 10%. Every little helps, and this can go a long way to making your life much easier when it comes to safe energy management.

Of course, it matters to know this kind of information because it can typically become a problem that you need to face the longer you ignore it. The longer you go without finding a credible solution, the worse the problem is going to get. For this reason, you should look to try and avoid ignoring the rating efficiency of your current heating system.

Doing so leaves you open to having to get a more expensive solution installed later on down the line when the situation could be much worse.

WHY EFFICIENCY MATTERS

If you want to have a home that is easy to afford and simpler to manage, then efficiency should always count. You will get to save money by doing so, allowing the use of electric heat pumps and air conditions to provide 40-50% more efficiency compared to even a decade ago. Efficiency is making living cheaper, and in these days of generally rising costs that can be a blessing in disguise.
You’ll also reduce how much energy you are using, which is good for the environment as much as yourself. This reduces your bulls, sure, but it also means you are doing less to stop energy from being wasted so much. With the right SEER rating then you could cut your energy usage in the summer – and by extension your bills – by as much as half. That could be a huge saving come the end of the year.
You get to know that you are doing the right thing for long-term prosperity. Heat pumps are efficient and when they have the right SEER value they are even more, meaning you don’t need to invest in more electricity or, crucially, more parts to replace the ones that can’t cope.

With all of this in mind, can you see now why energy is so important? And why efficiency should be your #1 priority?