My First Instructable

I decided to install a Hot Water Heater Timer on our water heater in our house and I have always wanted to do an instructable over at instructables.com, it is a great website to see how to make, fix or build something. They literally have thousands of instructables. So I decided to do both, here is a link to my Hot Water Heater Timer instructable. The cool news is within two days of doing it I got an email that it was a featured instructable on the home page. There is a pic below showing that (look at the left column under Featured, under the DIY Squid Hat, lol), I thought that was pretty awesome.

Basically here is what it does. It allows you to turn off the power to your electric hot water heater during hours of non-use automatically. The cool thing is that if you have a typical 40 gallon HWH you should be able to still get a few showers out if it even if it is during the time that it is scheduled to be off. We were able to cut out 16 hours, yes, 66% of our electric from our HWH that runs almost constant. Currently I have it scheduled to be on from 2a-5a for morning showers then from 9a-2p for washing clothes, dishes, etc. This is our winter schedule then it will change in the summer for off-peak hours. We are being green!

All the details, costs, etc. is available at the link above. Husbands, here is a way to make your wife see you as a man that cares about money, energy, and show her that you know a little somethin somethin. Best of all, is if you know nothing about electric or wiring you can get step by step instructions on the site.

So here is my question for you, what can you do to be green? To be responsible?