Keeping a home in order can sometimes feel difficult. Oftentimes you have to juggle lots of different chores at the same time; managing your home’s energy efficiency can be a constant struggle; and if you ever find yourself in an emergency, you don’t want to feel like there is no recourse for you.
Luckily, nowadays there are quite a few different kinds of gadgets that may help you with home maintenance. Whether it be by cutting down on the time required to do chores, or even by giving you a lifeline in an emergency.
We spoke to a tech company called TechQuarters. They are an IT support provider London businesses use for managing their technology stack, but they know a fair bit about technology across the board. Below are their picks for the most useful gadgets to have in your home.
1. Cordless Drill
Maintaining a home often means doing little jobs around the house – things like putting up shelves, or repairing a cupboard door – and you want to be able to get those things done quickly, which is why having a cordless drill is a great idea.
If you don’t have one of these tools yourself, you will need to rely on someone else – a family member, a friend, or possibly a professional handyman – which will mean you have to wait to get whatever the job is done. Owning a cordless drill will cut out the middle man and ensure you never have to wait to get a little DIY job done.
2. Cordless Stick Vacuum
Vacuum cleaning is another chore that many people can’t stand, and that is often because lugging around a heavy vacuum cleaner, and navigating around the cord adds additional inconveniences to the whole thing.
In recent years, cordless vacuums have become more and more powerful; and as for design, vacuums have become smaller, lighter, and more maneuverable. The cordless stick vacuum is the culmination of this.
They make getting into all the nooks and crannies, and under furniture in your home so much easier, and the battery life on them means you can get all of your vacuuming done much more quickly without having to stop and start to plug the device in at different areas of your home.
3. Robot Vacuum
For a really hands-off approach to keeping your home clean, try a robot vacuum. These devices can navigate your home independently, sucking up dust and debris, and even depositing it in a waste bag all by themselves. Some models even have a mop function – so if you have hard floors, you can get them even cleaner.
While these devices don’t always have the suction power of a manual vacuum cleaner, you can let them run more frequently – the idea being that even if the device isn’t as powerful, it will still improve the overall cleanliness of your floors.
4. Solar Panels + Inverter
If you’re conscious of the price of energy, and how energy efficient your home is, then you should definitely consider investing in solar panels. The amount of domestic solar energy being produced continues to grow, and the technology is getting better.
So you can even generate a decent amount of solar energy on cloudy days. What is more, there are even panels that can be installed with nothing more than an impact driver, so you can do it yourself.
When installing solar panels, it is important to also have a high-quality solar converter. Solar panels generate Direct Current (DC); this type of electricity is unsafe for homes, which use Alternating Current (AC). A solar converter will ensure that the energy produced by your panels will be converted into the safe AC electricity to be used in your home.
5. Inverter Generator
Sometimes an emergency scenario means you don’t have access to the electrical grid that normally powers your home. In that situation, it can be very handy to have a generator on hand to provide temporary energy to your phone line and appliances.
Generators historically weren’t massively efficient. Because the motor in them needed to be running at a consistent speed. Regardless of how much energy was being used. An Inverter Generator, on the other hand, is much more efficient. These types of generators convert the energy it produces from AC to DC, and then back into AC.
This may seem redundant, but the conversion actually helps stabilised the current. And also means that the generator can operate at variable speeds, slowing down. When power demand is low, and then speeding up when power demand is high. This means that the fuel used in the generator is used much more efficiently.
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