Your Home

A Beautiful Way To Conserve Energy

Posted: 4/29/2011

An attractive, programmable thermostat can be a cool way to save money on energy.

(NAPSI) - Going green doesn’t have to mean giving up the comforts of home.

What You Can Do

Here are hints that may help:

• Paint the walls of your home a light color. Dark colors absorb light and require more energy to achieve the same effect. Light colors conserve energy while helping your home seem brighter and more cheerful.

• Plant windbreaks, trees and shrubs around your house to beautify and protect your home.

• Check your filters regularly during periods of high use. Replacing dirty filters increases efficiency, promotes better health and saves money, too.

• Utilize a programmable thermostat to manage energy consumption and reduce your energy costs. A programmable thermostat can make a big difference in controlling your heating and cooling energy costs. It will provide a comfortable indoor climate while you are home and reduce wasted energy when you are asleep, at work or away on vacation.

One such thermostat can beautify your home as well. That’s because it works like a digital picture frame to show your own photos. It even comes with customizable faceplates, wallpaper backgrounds and screen savers, such as slide shows and clocks.

This multifunctional, simple-to-use, programmable touch- screen thermostat has more than a dozen preset themes, including nature and holiday themes. Each theme has separate photos, displaying daytime and nighttime scenes, including the sun for day and the moon for night. Whether you choose from the available themes or use your own photos, your thermostat becomes a small piece of wall art that’s engaging to use.

It’s compatible with virtually every type of heating and air-conditioning system and is only about half the price of competitive programmable thermostats that don’t have photo themes.

Up to 100 photos can rotate as a slide show in screen saver mode, and personal photos may also be selected as the background wallpaper for the thermostat.

With four programmable periods per day, this richly featured thermostat also comes with easy-to-use software to adjust preferences, alerts, daylight savings time, and vacation, security and overall system settings. An “At-a-Glance” screen clearly shows the heating and cooling status, time, and room temperature. Outside temperature can be displayed, too. You can even get reminder alerts right on the thermostat when it’s time to change the filter or call for service. Called ColorTouch, it’s available from Venstar, a leader in thermostats.

Learn More

For more information, visit www.venstar.com/Thermostats or call (818) 812-9930.

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