COMHAIRLE CONTAE ÁTHA CLIATH THEAS
SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
Monday, October 10, 2022
QUESTION NO. 2
QUESTION: Councillor Carly Bailey
To ask the Chief Executive to outline what items are available to borrow from the county libraries in relation to energy saving.
REPLY:
Since 2018, South Dublin Libraries have held a stock of Codema Home Energy Saving Kits.
The Home Energy Saving Kit aims to help householders make sense of the energy they use every day. The items in the toolkits address three key areas of energy use - space heating, hot water and electricity consumption.
Each kit contains six practical tools that help householders understand how their home uses energy and ways to find possible savings. The six tools are:
- Fridge/Freezer thermometer. This allows you to adjust the temperature in your fridge and freezer to save energy.
- Temperature and humidity meter. This identifies the temperature and humidity levels in every room in your house.
- Radiator key. To bleed your radiators and make them heat more efficiently.
- Thermal Leak Detector. This measures the temperature of your walls, floors, windows and ceilings to identify air leaks and draughts or insufficient insulation and glazing.
- Plug-In Energy Monitor. With this tool, you can see how much energy the appliances in your home use and calculate their running costs.
- Stopwatch. You can measure the water flow rate of your taps and adjust to save water and money on heating it.
The kit can be borrowed for a period of 2 weeks and helps you take the first step in becoming more energy efficient by identifying problem areas in your home and helping you make sense of the energy you consume daily. There are 14 kits available through the following branches of South Dublin Libraries:
- Ballyroan
- Castletymon
- Clondalkin
- Lucan
- North Clondalkin
- Tallaght
Kits can be reserved by contacting your local branch of South Dublin Libraires, they are not available to reserve online.
All members of South Dublin Libraries have access to the Libraries Ireland catalogue of over 12,000,000 items, which can be reserved on-line for collection in your nearest branch. The catologue is searchable by keyword or subject, with over 1,700 titles relating to "Energy Saving" having copies available to reserve. The catologue is available at www.librariesireland.ie.