How To Save On Your Electric Bill Water heating is the second largest expense in your home, accounting for almost 1596 of your residential electric bill, using a water heater timer saves energy and your money. What I will show you will not only save you money, but will also give your water heater longer life. Water heaters turn on and off as the remperacure of the water rises and falls. It does this all day and all night long, seven days a week. You can save $30 to $50 a month on your electric bill. This may not seem like a lot of money; however it could be used to take your family to the movies, dinner out, rent movies, or you could save the money for a vacation and many other things. Here is what you do, go to your local hardware store like: Ace Hardware, Home Depot. Ask them for an electric water heater timer. You pull the timer button out and set the times that your water heater will curn on and off during the day. I set mine to come on at 7am and to turn off at 12:00 noon. There are three of us in our home and this is enough hot water for the whole day. This timer also has an overide button so if your schedule needs more hot water, you simply push the button. pg.Lthen in an hour or so push it again to curn it off. Controlling your water heater saves you money! You can also purchase a gas water heater timer. However, that is not my experience, but it is possible. In my case in oue month che unic nearly paid for itself. I did noc install it uncil the LOch of the month, so this month ] will save closer to $50.00 mabe more. We have a large 3 bedroom house, if | can save you can also. If you are handy you can install the device yourself. Always remember safety firsc, curn the electricity off. Place a note on Ithe electricity panel and lock it with a pad lock. Do this before working on the electric circuit then use a tester to make sure that the electricity is in fact off. If you are not so handy you can hire a handy man with electrical experience or an electrician. You should not pay over $150.00 to install it and that includes parts and labor. If you will be installing the unit yourself you will need: The Intermatic electric water heater timer, a piece of flexible metal conduit with end clamps, you will need to be premeasure from where you hang your device box to the water heater, a piece of 10 gage wire 10/2 to go beeween where you hang your box and the water heater. Then with the electricity off. You will find a stud to mount the elecuric timer device to, inside che water heater closet. Then you will mount che device with wood screws. When you have done this you insert the feed wire. from the electric panel board to the device. pg.2