A SMART THERMOSTAT WILL LOWER YOUR ELECTRIC BILL
If you're tired of paying too much for home comfort, a Smart thermostat such as the Nest Learning Thermostat is a sleek and user-friendly way to reduce the energy costs in your house. A Smart thermostat can be programmed to keep your utility costs to a minimum without sacrificing comfort.
Why go Smart?
The Nest Thermostat comes in four colors in a circular digital design (black, white, copper, and stainless steel options are available). Instead of having your thermostat reading always visible, the device goes into sleep mode until you touch it with your hand or pass by to activate it. While Nest has a low learning curve, one of the best parts about Nest is that you can adjust it from the comfort of your phone.
As an example, perhaps you go out of town, but when you arrive at your destination, you realize you left the air conditioning set to 65 degrees. You can open the app in your phone, tap the buttons setting the air conditioning higher. Is it a colder night than typical weather? Instead of plodding downstairs to adjust the thermostat, tap and you can turn the air conditioner off and sleep with the comfort of just your blanket. Did you fly across the country for your best friend's birthday party and the weather here took a sudden dive? Open the Nest app, and you can adjust the temperature to a more economical setting.
For even more control, you can do things like set Nest to shut off the heat when you leave the house--or, at least when your phone leaves the house.
Predictive suggestions
Nest also keeps a log of your heating/cooling patterns and suggests little things to make it more eco-friendly. It can see you like to keep your house comfortable at 75, but notices during the afternoon when the sun shines brighter into the house your heating and cooling system works harder. It might suggest that you adjust the temperature by a degree or two to reduce cost. You can also utilize the schedule function to vary your thermostat hour by hour. If you away during the day you can schedule Nest to begin lowering the thermostat at 2 pm on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and at 3:30 on Tuesday and Thursday. If you don't manually schedule this, Nest will learn to predict your pattern and see the patterns that can make your energy use more efficient.
Nest also takes into consideration the weather and loves to tell you when you have been energy efficient. At the end of the month, they'll send you an email notifying you how much Nest has saved you in energy hours during the month. Even if you have a professional, reliable electrician from Kennedy ELectric come install that Nest for you, it will eventually pay for itself.
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