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New Mexico’s Legal & Financial Weekly
Vol. 10.100 No. 24
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Keeping Your Family’s Quarantine Cool This Summer
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s the coronavirus pandemic rapidly turned the “new normal” household into hubs for all daily activities, Summer 2020 now means moving parents’ offices, kid’s camps, vacation destinations, and virtually everything under one roof. Although this dynamic could forge family bonds, it can also ignite the already heated stresses and struggles facing many Americans during this difficult time - making optimal home climate control a critical key to keeping their cool as temperatures heat up this season. Recent studies show how our increased togetherness can significantly disrupt domestic bliss. In fact, research suggests that people forced to live in quarantine conditions face a greater risk of anxiety, depression, anger, irritability, insomnia and posttraumatic stress symptoms.
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Smart Home Thermostats create “smart” systems by enabling remote temperature control via a mobile or Internet-connected device or voiceoperated home automation system.
* Voice Your Preference: Take control of your comfort. Most HVAC manufacturers offer apps that enable systems to be controlled from anywhere using a mobile device. Voice-control capability uses digital And, despite feeling close to their assistants, such as Amazon Alexa children during the pandemic, or Google Home, to verbally dictate 61percent of parents say they have shouted, yelled, or screamed at them at least once over the past two home temperatures. Easily controlling the temperature more closely weeks, according to a University of Michigan study. Further, married allows homeowners to be more comfortable and improve energy and engaged couples in quarantine are fighting more, with only 18 savings. percent of surveyed couples reporting satisfaction in communication with their partner, according to a survey conducted by the publication, * Find Your Efficient Comfort Zone: Many of us live in homes designed for bigger families, but have yet to downsize. If you find “The Knot and app Lasting.” yourself using a fraction of your home on a regular basis, consider When temperatures - and tempers - rise, a dreaded “Family upgrading to a zoned, ducted, or ductless system. That will allow Thermostat War” can ensue. Following are some useful tips to help you to save energy heating and cooling spaces where you and your family don’t spend a lot of time. This will multiply savings as you’re you save money on utility bills and keep your family cool. not only needing less cooling, but you also gain from a more efficient With home heating and cooling accounting for nearly half of home system in the spaces you do still use. energy use and air conditioner energy expenses costing homeowners * Try Low-tech Fixes: Simple changes can have a big impact. Try more than $11 billion a year, small steps can go a long way. to use heat-producing appliances - stoves, irons and dryers at night * Ease Into Electric: According to Columbia University’s Earth or early morning. Switch to LED light bulbs instead of incandescent Institute, electric systems are a solution to decarbonize home climate bulbs - which consume 90 percent more power. Seal air leaks around control. Among the most energy-efficient heating and cooling windows, doors, and places where pipes and wires come through products, electricity-powered ductless mini-split systems, offered by walls. And check existing caulking and weather-stripping for gaps companies including Fujitsu General America, can save as much as or cracks. 25 percent on your energy bill. Mini-splits use thin copper tubing to pump refrigerant from an outdoor compressor directly into an indoor Achieving a sense of peaceful co-existence in your increasingly air-handling unit, where the air is quietly distributed to the interior crowded, multi-functional home does not need to make your family members hot under the collar. If a new system is right for you, many space. Fujitsu systems with the Energy Star rating are more than twice as * Get “Smart” About Climate Control: When it comes to smart home efficient as the minimum standard set by the government. To learn temperature control, there are Smart HVAC Systems and Smart more or find a contractor near you, call 888-888-3424 or visit www. Thermostats. Smart HVAC systems have built-in Internet capability constantcomfort.com. and can be controlled directly without additional equipment. -(NewsUSA)