The team at Regal Homes is not just about offering our
clients the best when it comes to buying and selling, we are also interested in
the every day lives of our homeowners.
This year, we want to encourage every
homeowner to cut back on their drinking, and it might not be exactly what you
are thinking…
Cutting back on the amount of water a household uses can
help others by reducing energy use and can help us by saving the homeowner
money. Here are some tips how:
- Keep an eye on things: water meters are easy to have installed and when you can see exactly, there's an incentive to waste less and save money.
- Brush in silence: turning off the tap while you brush your teeth can save 6 liters of water per minute.
- Stop singing in the shower: get in, get clean and get out! While showering, you are using anything between 6 and 45 liters per minute.
- Toilet cistern displacement: no cute way to put it but these devices can be issued from your water provider and they reduce the volume of water used in each flush.
- Load it up: don’t run washing machine or dishwasher unless full, simple enough.
- Stop the leak: even a small drip can run through15 liters of water a day (aka 5,500 liters of water a year). That’s a lot of blue, which can cost you a lot of green!
- Don’t waste the rain: install a water catcher to your drainpipe, this collected water from your roof can be used to water your plants, clean your car, wash your windows, etc.
- Water granny style: using a watering can means not using a hose that uses 1,000 liters of water an hour; sure it might take a little extra time, but gardening should be relaxing, right?
- Plan ahead: when purchasing new appliances, look for the energy and water-efficient labels. Even the small items like showerheads and faucets can be changed and eventually pay for themselves in savings.
Also, we would like to share some of our team’s personal
resolutions for 2016 with you!
“Maintain a healthy lifestyle, start a family, save more
money, purchase investment property & be more consistent with my
daily devotional reading.” - Danya Wilson
"I normally don't make resolutions, but rather improve
on what I already have been blessed to do. However, this past year I feel I
fell of track with progress. So this upcoming year I want to regain my focus of
achieving physical health, striving towards financial freedom, and spending as
much quality time with loved ones as time and opportunity will allow." -
Dequan Grignon
“I really want to cut back on sugar and make a
lifestyle change!” - Dena Karlin
"Strengthen my social media presence via Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram and other popular forms of social media". - Ingril
White
“My goal is to get back to 2009 fine… pretty much pre baby,
cut back on sweets and find balance between work and personal.” - Rennai Kelly
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