Every day, families use massive amounts of energy to sustain their homes. If you are in the process of building your home, you can do so in a way that saves energy and uses up less energy during your everyday routine. As citizens of the world, it is our duty to build homes that are sustainable and energy efficient because the world has sadly reached a tipping point that may be difficult to come back from due to humans using of the earth nonstop and not giving anything else. However, it is not just the environment that has much to gain from you choosing to build a home that is environmentally friendly but your wallet too. Every month, families pay thousands in electricity bills and other energy bills which can be avoided if homes are built in ways that use up less energy.

Heating and cooling
Heating our homes during the winter and cooling them during the summer causes us to use up massive amounts of energy every year. In fact, heating and cooling our homes arguably takes up the most amount of energy and is possibly a big percentage of our energy bills every month. When building your home, it would be useful for you to do your research on different methods of ceiling insulation in Melbourne in order to insulate your home from the weather outside. This means that during extremely cold days, your home will not be as cold inside and during very hot summer days, you home will not be as hot.

You will find that you can use USG boral plasterboard to do this in the most financially efficient way. Having your home well insulated will reduce your need to use external heating or cooling in turn saving your thousands of dollars every month on your energy bills.

Using natural lighting
The use of energy to light our homes during the day is another thing that should be avoided because it is completely unnecessary given that there is so much natural light outside that we can use to light our homes during the day. You can design your home in a way that there are big glass windows in every room to let in the natural light from the outside eliminating the need to use electrical lighting. Similarly, you can have sky lights in your ceiling that will always light your room even when you need to close your curtains for privacy. Other interesting design techniques you can use are glass blocks in your walls that are not clear but still let in light while maintain your privacy.