Water Saving Tips for Your Home – Perth Plumber

11 Ways To Save Water at Your Home

Whatever the reason behind your motivation to want to conserve water in your home, whether it be due to a heatwave, reducing your household bills or simply because you want to do right by the environment, this article will give you a range of practical tips to help you reduce the use of water in your household.

1. Only Boil What Water You Need

So many of us will aimlessly fill a kettle up halfway or even full when we just want to make a single drink. By only boiling the amount of water you actually need, you will save money, energy, and water at the same time.

2. Turn Off Your Taps While You Brush

Something we’ve all done in the past, and something we so often do without a moment’s thought. When you brush your teeth; do you turn off the taps or, like many others out there, do you leave them running?

You can save up to five liters of water for every minute you do not leave your tap running. Over time, this really can add up to a lot of wasted water. And, let’s not forget that you pay out for your water wastage as well as your water usage!

3. Consolidate Your Laundry

If you were to wash to half-loads of your laundry, this would actually use more energy and water that a fully loaded machine. By waiting a couple of days and consolidating your laundry, you can help to reduce your water consumption, and your household utility bills as well.

4. Wash Up Once a Day

Contrary to popular belief, having a dishwasher can actually help you to conserve water when compared with the traditional method of washing up in the sink. If you do not have a dishwasher at home, then washing up once at the end of the day can significantly help you reduce your wastewater and water consumption.

5. Install a Low Flush Toilet

The average-sized household will flush a toilet roughly 5000 times every year. Installing a modern dual flush system can help to significantly reduce the water that is used to operate the toilets in a household. With a traditional flushing toilet, up to 13 liters of water is used with every flush. By using a low-flush toilet, the volume of water used per flush can be reduced to just 4 liters.

6. Steam Cooking Over Boiling

This point is short and sweet. Steam cooking your food isn’t just a healthier cooking method that can be used for rice, veggies, fish, and more. It is also a great way to reduce your water consumption. When vegetables are steamed, they are also said to retain more of their natural nutrients too.

7. Take a Shower Instead of a Bath

Most people already know that taking a shower beats a bath in terms of time, money, energy, and water conservation. However, there are still many wasteful habits we have in our homes when it comes to taking our daily shower. Running the shower before you are ready to step into it can waste anything between 6-45 liters of water for each minute it is running without use.

So, when you turn on the shower at the start or the end of your day, make sure you’re ready to step into it quickly.

Another idea is to buy an aerated shower head, which combines air with the water. A regulator is another great tip to help you save water in the home as it places an upper limit on the flow rates.

8. Install a Rain Water Tank

Catching the rainwater by installing a water tank in your home can actually help you save up to 5000 liters of water each year, weather dependent, of course. Whatever way you choose to use this water, it will be better for the environment and for your wallet if you get a water tank installed in your home.

Using your own water for your plants and your garden can help you reduce your water use by up to 33%! It is also ideal for use in your car or for washing your windows. It is also much better to use natural water compared to treated water for your plants and flowers.

9. Get Your Piping Checked Regularly

By calling in your local plumber check that your pipes and dishwasher hose are both intact and free from any leaks, you can potentially save yourself a small fortune in the case of a slow leak. Make sure you always know where your stop valve is located as well. In the case of leaking pipes, getting a leak detection service sorted quickly won’t just help you conserve water, it could prevent any ongoing or costly damage to your property.

10. Fix Leaking Taps Quickly

This is something that is easily ignored, but when left without resolution, a leaking tap can waste up to ten liters of water in a single day! This adds to the cost of a water bill, and it is a complete waste of water. In some cases, fixing a leaky tap is a quick and easy job that can easily be done as a DIY job from home.

11. Store Water in the Fridge

The last piece of practical advice for water-saving tips at home is to store a jug of chilled water in the fridge. When you turn on a tap, you will usually need to wait a short while until the cold water runs cool, instead of warm. By filling a jug with tap water and leaving this to cool in the fridge, this means you will not need to leave the tap running unnecessarily while you wait for the water to turn cold.

In Conclusion

While all changes take time, you can start to implement some of the points in this list of water-saving tips instantly. Regardless of the fact that we do not have a water shortage, saving water is important because it can reduce the amount of energy we use, it can help us to save money, and it’s a cleaner, eco-friendlier way to live all-round.