7 Ways You Can Make Your Home More Efficient (and save money $$$)

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With our 1970s home, we’re working with a lot of outdated and inefficient things. Today with The Home Depot Canada, I’m sharing some secrets on how I save energy around the home, without breaking the bank. I promise it’s not just about buying shiny new expensive appliances. These are small investments that can really help with the utility bills.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Done in a flash!
0:31 - Tip 1: This helps move air around the house
2:45 - Tip 2: Add brightness and value!
4:42 - Tip 3: Swapping out this mega wasteful chandelier
8:28 - Tip 4: Attack your drafts!
11:37 - Tip 5: Smart-ify this to save money
12:53 - Tip 6: Stop wasting water!
16:26 - Tip 7: I've never swapped this until now
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A B O U T
I'm Letitia (Le-tish-a), a fashion school graduate based in Toronto. I'm here to share DIYs, thrift flips, and home decor videos. Stefan and I bought our first home in 2020 and you can watch Our First Home series here: • House Hunting: Pricing... . We're renovating our fixer upper home, and sharing all the ups and downs of diy-ing our own renovations.
#energysaving #homemaintenance #sustainablehacks

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@catwalrond 2 жыл бұрын

that fan vent is the definition of INNOVATION wowow

@letitiakiu 2 жыл бұрын

You can have a marilyn monroe moment in your own home!

@aoifemulqueen 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this, exactly my vibe right now. My local library also rents a temperature laser gun that you can point at walls and windows in your house to identify where the cold is coming in! Found a full inch over my front door that was just... open!!

@psays 2 жыл бұрын

More of these please please! Home Depot keep sponsoring 🙂

@letitiakiu 2 жыл бұрын

I will screenshot this for them hehe. Thank you for the support Patty!

@mskellycareless 2 жыл бұрын

Way to go Letitia! wonderfully entertaining as always!

@letitiakiu 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Kelly!!!

@nomaichi Жыл бұрын

"that's a whole dinner!" hahaha

@jessreadingcorner 2 жыл бұрын

This is great! Right on time in my universe too because I'm facing a lot of new homeowner issues in my old fixer upper too. I've been looking for diy solutions all day and these are all on my to-do list. A few I had not even thought of so thank you, as per usual for the great content.

@KathleenIllustrated 2 жыл бұрын

:O those register fans are AMAZING! Our registers barely push out any air.. I wonder if they'd help?! EXCITING

@megb7491 2 жыл бұрын

Your sweet delivery always cracks me up.....:))

@letitiakiu 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Meg! You're such a frequent supporter of this channel. I appreciate you!

@MagdalaPorter 2 жыл бұрын

I really endorse sealing your windows! You can reuse some of your purchases year after year like the weather stripping you fitted. You didn't opt for insulation film, but if dismantled carefully you can use a sheet on a smaller window next year. Given yearly replacement costs combined with a slightly diminshed electricity bill I am breaking even on costs, but I am still happy for these solutions I am more comfortable. Do you have equalized electricity payments in Ontario? (I'm in Quebec).

@letitiakiu 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I think next year I'll try the film! I might be wrong, but we only have equalized payments for gas use. Not too sure!

@BiologieMe 2 жыл бұрын

Wow! This is literally so informative I'm going to have to watch it again to absorb all this advice and wisdom. You are so adorable putting in that light fixture for the kitchen and burrowing under the sink to deal with the plumbing. Your partner has such a nice way of teaching and I love his accent, hehe. You guys are so sweet together. I love the baby wipe tip for smoothing out the caulk(?) for the windows, I've never tried that method; I have tried using a dip of fingertip into rubbing alcohol and then smoothing it that way (which works too but probably not as easy as baby wipes). Thanks so much for all of this info. I am guilty in the past of taking way too long to change out the filter for the air conditioner/furnace and it was sooooOOOoooo bad (especially with 3 dogs added to the mix). It's on the reminders now so no more nasty filters here either. Cheers!

@Ashenkaniku 2 жыл бұрын

"waaat millennial has a ladder??" I'm ded 🤣💀😂. None of us, Letitia, none of us have ladders.

@letitiakiu 2 жыл бұрын

WUT ARE WE GOING TO DO WHEN THIS GENERATION NEEDS TO REACH HIGH PLACES?!

@Ashenkaniku 2 жыл бұрын

@@letitiakiu ask the neighbors 😂, good tip I learned in ur video 😏

@LauraRobertsButtontapper 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! I love those little fans you added to your vents, and never knew they existed before today. Thanks for the furnace filter reminder, I need to do that!

@HT-dy5co 2 жыл бұрын

wow, i never knew they did dampers for at home air vents! very cool that they link to your phone.

@letitiakiu 2 жыл бұрын

They were news to me as well!

@charleslewis564 2 жыл бұрын

This was a great video, you were too funny with explanations. But tips and tasks were on point. Yes , you are the new modern DYI housewife

@blessthisbeast 2 жыл бұрын

I got so fed up with not having a ladder that I ordered one for delivery from Home Depot! Storage is annoying, but I keep it in my front closet and hang scarves off it when it's not in use LOL

@sagefaribole 2 жыл бұрын

Great video as usual! Thanks for the tips! FYI, if you're not already aware of this, check out the Canadian federal government "Greener Homes program" to help get your home greener with bigger kind of renos

@listenindya 2 жыл бұрын

Such a useful video. Loved it!

@letitiakiu 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Shilpa!

@audreyschmitt200 2 жыл бұрын

This video is so entertaining! Looks like you've had a lot of fun making it too 😄

@evrythngiseverything 2 жыл бұрын

I loved this! The triumphant sounds you made after accomplishing what you set out to do was awesome! Yay!

@virtuallygemini409 2 жыл бұрын

this gives me confidence

@leelulady2010 2 жыл бұрын

In some locations, people only have central heat. (Ex: TX older houses have separate window units for AC/cold air). We're mostly hot weather. So I've saved $ by closing all of the heater vents during those times and getting magnetic vent covers to prevent even more heat from coming in during our intense hot weather months. They sell them at Lowe's, etc. I also got some neat AC/window 1" insulation panels that come in a kit. Sometimes Walmart even carries those. So nice to slow down heat transfer, year round. They really work!

@leelulady2010 2 жыл бұрын

If the weather warms up enough then you can also caulk the outside of your windows and doors. That doubles the draft prevention.