What’s on the Saving Energy poster
A 5-row table: Use · Share · Lever.
Approximate share of a typical home's energy use.
- Space heating — ~55% — Thermostat, controls, insulation
- Hot water — ~20% — Shorter showers, lower tank temp
- Appliances — ~15% — Efficient models, full loads
- Lighting — ~5% — LED throughout
- Cooking — ~5% — Lids, right-sized pans
Turning the thermostat down 1°C typically cuts heating use by several percent. Nothing else is that cheap.
Questions about the Saving Energy poster
- What’s on the Saving Energy poster?
- A 5-row table: Use · Share · Lever. Approximate share of a typical home's energy use. Space heating — ~55% — Thermostat, controls, insulation; Hot water — ~20% — Shorter showers, lower tank temp; Appliances — ~15% — Efficient models, full loads; Lighting — ~5% — LED throughout; Cooking — ~5% — Lids, right-sized pans. Turning the thermostat down 1°C typically cuts heating use by several percent. Nothing else is that cheap.
- Who is the Saving Energy poster for?
- Saving Energy belongs to the Practical skills section rather than to a school year, because life skills is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning home can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Saving Energy poster?
- Heating dominates. A degree on the thermostat outweighs almost everything else. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Saving Energy belongs on the wall where that life skills work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Saving Energy?
- Cleaning a Room, Cleaning Products and Decluttering sit alongside Saving Energy in the Practical skills section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Cleaning a RoomCleaning ProductsDecluttering
- Is the Saving Energy poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Saving Energy downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Practical skills section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Saving Energy poster print at?
- Saving Energy is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Saving Energy loses nothing.Printing guide
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