$ave Green By Going Green For Plumbing, Heating & Cooling Savings Up To $1200
There are a number of green plumbing and HVAC ways to maximize your comfort, increase home value, and minimize your energy use.
With our 139 years of knowledge and quality products, we can assist you with a plan to turn your home or business greener. Clean comfort and monthly savings that benefits the future. You can’t go wrong with PDM’s green plumbing and HVAC service.
What are sustainable HVAC systems?
If you want to take care of the environment while maximizing your comfort, consider these environmentally-friendly heating and cooling tips. For more than 130 years PDM has been offering green eco-saving service for homes and businesses in SW Chicago suburbs.
- A smart thermostat is the best green upgrade you can make. Save up to 8% on utility costs. Control temperatures from anywhere.
- A well-maintained HVAC system is more environmentally friendly. A furnace combustion safety analysis improves energy efficiency and gives you peace of mind.
A new energy-efficient HVAC system helps keep the environment clean. Energy Star air conditioning and furnaces can be up to 98% efficient and save 1.5 tons of carbon dioxide emissions each year. Simply put, furnace or boiler replacement means you can cut emissions and energy usage by 20 to 50%.
What is Green HVAC?
Broadly speaking, green heating or cooling means it is going to use less energy than a standard HVAC system. Generally, green HVAC systems can reduce energy consumption by 20 to 50%.
High efficiency systems lowers monthly bills, adds greater reliability and comfort while helping to pay for the upgrade. Plus, with the latest energy efficiency federal tax credits and local utility rebates there’s never been a better time to upgrade your home than right now.
Green Heating & Air Conditioning
Energy Star Heating Replacement
While it may seem like a major expense, the long term benefits of a new energy efficient central AC, furnace, or boiler make it worth your while with up to 98% efficiency helping the earth and your comfort.
Technology is always improving, making the newest models the most green and eco-friendly yet. Plus, newer HVAC units are close to whisper-quiet, as opposed to the loud roar of older machines.
Contact PDM for the latest ComEd or Nicor rebates, federal tax credit incentives, PDM rebates and financing options.
Green Smart Thermostats
Save 8% or more on utility bills. Maintaining the heating and cooling in your home is not a one-size-fits-all proposition. Weather changes throughout the day, there are unexpected changes in temperature and many other factors that can alter your needs.
A smart thermostat is able to learn the ebb and flow of your cooling or heating needs and adjust accordingly. This energy efficiency provides you with greater savings, and the less energy you use, the better it is for the environment. Plus you can control from anywhere.
Green HVAC Maintenance
Even the most energy efficient HVAC system can turn into a power drain if it’s dirty and not working efficiently. Each year you avoid maintenance you lose up to 5 percent of efficiency. Regular maintenance can make sure your HVAC system is working to its full potential and prevent system downtime. Just like vehicle tune-up.
Let PDM rejuvenate your heating and cooling system to improve operation and avoid unexpected breakdowns, extend equipment lie and keep manufacturer warranty active.
Automated Bathroom Humidity Sensing Ventilation Fan
Does your exhaust fan clear a fogged-up mirror and humidity quickly? If it is time to upgrade an old, or undersized bathroom ventilation fan we have a great idea.
Choose a humidity sensing ventilation fan that automatically turns on and off. A smart choice and the most efficient use of the fan helps you only use the fan as needed. A fan should have a CFM rating high enough to replace the air in your bathroom at a rate of eight times per hour.
Upgrade Indoor Air Quality
From whole home humidifiers that lowers heating bills and improves your immune system, to air filtration to ventilation, PDM can help with indoor air quality.
Green Plumbing Solutions
Healthier Water
Test your water for hardness and contaminates. Install whole house water filtration for healthier water and longer appliance life. Remove chlorine and more with activated carbon filters or reverse osmosis drinking water filters. Rusty water concern? Learn more.
Green Water Heaters
Older water heaters can waste 27% of energy. Upgrade to a new efficient standard tank water heater for more hot water and lower heating costs.
Time to upgrade to a tankless water heater? The U.S. Department of Energy reports a tankless water heater is 24% to 34% more energy-efficient than storage tank water heaters. Not only that, but you'll receive endless hot water - no more running out of hot water or messy tank water leaks!
Water heater maintenance can also help improve efficiency and give you more hot water by flushing the water heater hard water sediment.
Reduce Water Usage:
Toilet - An average family of four uses 881 gallons of water per week just by flushing the toilet. EPA studies say 20-40% of toilets leak water down the drain. Check for toilet leaks. Add food color to the toilet tank and wait 30 minutes. Then check the toilet bowl to see if coloring appears. If so, your toilet leaks. Flush the toilet promptly to make sure the tank is not stained. Learn why your toilet is leaking. If it's time to replace your toilet PDM can help. Save water with low flush toilet that uses two to five times less water per flush than a standard toilet. Learn about a smart bidet toilet cleansing seat. Faucet - Faucet drip can waste 2,086 gallons a year. Fix a faucet drip, you'll feel better. Faucet aerators can reduce water consumption by 25%. Low flow shower head can reduce usage up to 60%. And then there are touch-free faucets and smart shower valves to make your life easier. Eco-friendly dishwasher - Energy Star dishwashers are on average 40% more energy efficient and water-efficient than standard models. The Energy Star certification requires standard dishwashers to use no more than 3.5 gallons per cycle. Eco-friendly clothes washer - Green Choice washers are highly efficient front-loaders, which use an average of 10 gallons of water per load compared with 13 gallons for high-efficiency (HE) top-loaders and 20 gallons for agitators. Washing with a cold cycle can save you more than 80% of your energy consumption and cost. Eco Friendly Plumbing – Greywater - Water-recycling systems are the new rage in plumbing. Rather than flush away this less-than-perfect resource, water flows into gardens or lawns instead. While taking a swig of greywater is not for you, plants actually love the stuff. It provides them with the nutrients they need to grow healthy and strong. Rain Barrel. Ask your city water dept. if they offer a rain barrel program. City of Joliet offers a subsidy. A 55 gallon rain barrel collects and stores rainwater from a homeowner’s roof that would otherwise be lost to runoff and diverted to storm drains and streams. Lawn and garden watering make up nearly 40% of total household water use during the summer.
Insulated Pipes
Pipes may do the job of getting water where it needs to go in your home, but if they are uninsulated they may not bring all the heat with it.
Insulated pipes help to hold in the heat, making your home more energy-efficient and saving the time (and wasted water) you use warming up your tap. In the colder months, the insulation helps prevent pipe damage from freezing, saving you on costly repairs.
Air Infiltrates Through Every Nook & Cranny
About one third of air loss - and therefore energy waste - is because air infiltrates through the openings in your ceilings, walls and floors.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, you can save 10% or more on your monthly energy bills just by plugging air leaks in these places in your home. Eliminate air leaks, then insulate!
Ceilings, walls and floors - 31% of air infiltration Air ducts - 15% Plumbing pipe penetration in roof or wall - 13% Fireplace - 14% Fans and vents - 4% Doors - 11% Windows - 10% Electrical outlets - 2%
Take The Eco-Friendly Green Plumbing & HVAC Plunge
Whether it's one fixture oe more, save some green and make your neighbors green with envy by letting PDM remake your home or business into an energy-efficient oasis. Contact the PDM pros online or call us at 815-390-7095 today for green plumbing & HVAC ideas!
