When Home LED manages the change-over to LED downlights in your house, we take care of everything, from start to finish. The whole process is designed to be as hassle-free as possible for you. Initially all you need to do is book in a lighting and energy assessment through our website (this one!). We will then contact you to arrange…
Lighting is an important issue, with close to 20% of the world’s generated energy being used for it. So the evolution of home and office lighting over the last 150 years or so has taken us through incandescent, CFLs, Halogen and now LED technology. We have, over the last five years, improved the LED technology even further and reduced costs…
In 1892 Edison Electric Company was formed in the United States. Edison was working hard on bringing lightbulbs to the masses and to the home. For at least eighty years more this type of technology was prevalent in our lights worldwide. These type of lights give off a nice feeling spectrum but are incredibly hot. They use only 10% of…
When it comes to your lighting, which is about 8% of your bill, efficiency is important over the long-term if you want to save money. LED downlight fittings are typically 8 – 12 watts, compared to your old incandescent lights which are running at 80+watts. So you are shaving off around 70-80% of the energy just by changing the bulb…
From our previous article we outlined the biggest chunk of your power bill over the year is from heating. And that chunk is much larger than any other types of use coming to around 30% of your bills. But how is heat lost in a home once it’s paid for and pumped into a home? Air gaps are the largest…
A modern home consumes a lot of energy on a broad range of appliances, lighting and heating requirements. We have become an inter-connected gadget-based world, and this means more electronics and power use in that area of the home. Electricity is used by the majority of NZ to heat their homes (79.2% in 2013) and that number is growing every…