Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings: All New Listings of the Most Efficient Products You Can Buy

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 245 pages
• Published by: American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy
• Edition: 8th Edition November 1, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0918249465
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0918249463
• Book Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
• Weighs: 12.8 ounces

Product Review
Alex Wilson and John Morrill have assembled a comprehensive guide to energy-saving techniques and devices with two goals in mind: save consumers money and save Earth in the process. Wilson and Morrill offer consumers the latest techniques for making their homes more efficient, comfortable, and cheaper to live in, and they supply energy ratings for appliances, light bulbs, water heaters, windows, heating systems, and more. The language is clear and entertaining; you needn't to be a technician or an engineer to understand the suggestions and analyses. Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings will prove incredibly useful for people who are about to build a home or remodel, or who simply want to get the most bang for their buck and not waste energy or foul the environment. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Review
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“Must reading for homeowners in the market for new appliances…contains a wealth of information on how to make the appliances you own now work more efficiently. The advice here will also save you hundreds of dollars a year in energy costs.”
—Better Homes and Gardens

“Not only does the Guide rate the brand of major home appliances and fixtures for energy efficiency, it also shows how to insulate, landscape and maintain your home in the manner that will make your wallet and your planet greener.”
—E Magazine

“This book could have easily been titled The Encyclopedia of Home Energy Savings. It’s the most comprehensive resource to home energy savings that I’ve seen. Every homeowner and environmentally conscious (or utility paying) renter should have a copy.”
—Green Living

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Consumer Guide to Home Energy Savings (Paperback) This book covers both the house itself (insulation, windows, etc.) as well as appliances, furnaces, and lightbulbs. Written in 1999, it lists major appliances, windows, furnaces, boilers, and air conditioners by brand name and model number in table format showing the energy ratings of each one. This saves you the time of running around town or making dozens of phone calls to collect this info. It also explains all the information contained on energy labels when you go shopping. In particular, I found the section on windows most beneficial. It details what tests are done to obtain the ratings, which tests are most relevant and which ratings you should pay particular attention to, as there are several ratings on each window. It also was bold enough to say which things you should be spending your money on and which things are nice to have but not absolutely necessary.