Energy efficient appliances to save on your bills

It is very easy nowadays to make huge savings on your electricity bill as well as being environmentally friendly. Just make sure that all your domestic appliances carry the "Energy Efficiency Recommended" logo that will ensure that your appliance is environment friendly.

The fact that some products are allowed to display this logo mean that they comply with energy efficiency requirement approved by the government.

The Energy Efficiency Recommended standard is used in conjunction with the European Union Energy Label for different domestic appliances such as a tumble dryer or a fridge. The label is a useful indicator of how efficient the product is in various categories. Those categories go from A to G with A being the most energy efficient and environmentally friendly possible product. In fact, there are also individual ratings based on different elements like for example, energy consumption, spin drying performance, load capacity and so on.

For example, a fridge is probably the appliance that is on most of the time whether you are there or not. And that is the reason why getting a fridge that has a good rating will hugely lower your energy bill and save you a lot of money.

On top of helping you make savings on your electricity bill, it is important to notice that a domestic appliance rated with an A is not necessarily more expensive than an appliance with a lower rating. If you shop around you will be able to find an appliance at a very good price that is environmentally friendly and cost efficient in terms of fuels consumption.

Being even more aware of those costs and of the environment, you can easily buy domestic appliances spare parts on online shops or any specialised shop. It is now very simple to get Hotpoint spares, White knight spares, Zanussi spares or even Indesit spares from an online shop. Because it is usually cheaper to buy spares parts and then to change the broken piece of your appliance than to buy a new appliance, you will see that not only will you save money by not buying a new fridge, tumble dryer or washing machine, but because you've improved your appliance it will be more energy efficient now.

If your appliance is too old and cannot be fixed, then you should make sure that is does not end up in a land fill but rather in a recycling centre.