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Fogel

Fogel

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My schedule is erratic, so being able to change the programing or just turn on/off while not home is a big plus
 
Dandai

Dandai

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My family is home so often that we’d definitely not get any value out of a smart thermostat. Is the idea to optimize your energy usage? I’m curious how much of an impact it would actually have. I’d think big swings in the temperature of the thermal mass of the home would negate whatever gains were achieved by limiting climate control activity.
 
Lanx

Lanx

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Dandai said:
My family is home so often that we’d definitely not get any value out of a smart thermostat. Is the idea to optimize your energy usage? I’m curious how much of an impact it would actually have. I’d think big swings in the temperature of the thermal mass of the home would negate whatever gains were achieved by limiting climate control activity.
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that and it tries to fix the

girl "yo i'm cold"!!!

guy, gets off bed and raise temp 5degrees
 
Fucker

Fucker

Log Wizard
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lurker said:
No offence, but what's the attraction to the Nest and other "learning" thermostats? I read somewhere that the most desired feature of these thermostats is the learning part and the most disabled feature is the learning part. I personally use my thermostat, a cheapy, like an on/off switch. If it's cold/hot I turn the furnace/AC. I turn everything off at night. What am I missing?
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I have a few Ecobee units, one upstairs, and one downstairs. Mine are tied into Alexa, so I can turn off heat or ac without getting up or out of bed. It also has a motion sensor so I can set it to 85F when it detects that I am away. I can also access it remotely via my phone which I have never done. I don't think it learns anything like a Nest.

I put one in a friend's house with extra sensors and it evened out her temps. She only has one AC unit and two upstairs bedrooms. Thermostat is downstairs so it would be blazing hot upstairs. The extra sensor fixed that right away without the usual icebox downstairs/pizza oven upstairs issue she had.
 
Fucker

Fucker

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lurkingdirk said:
Can you explain why you would shut off a breaker for the furnace to paint?
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Daezuel

Daezuel

Potato del Grande
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Meh, it was 70+ degrees and I was painting the room directly next to my furnace and water heater, I turned off the gas to both, figured I might as well cut the power too.
 
Arative

Arative

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So every once in a while my garage door will stick when coming up and I hear kind of a loud pop. Starting it down and back up will open it fully. Not sure what would be causing that.
 
Lanx

Lanx

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Arative said:
So every once in a while my garage door will stick when coming up and I hear kind of a loud pop. Starting it down and back up will open it fully. Not sure what would be causing that.
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need to oil?

thats one of the things i did when i got my house, garage door sounded like a death creak, bought garage oil and sounds nice and new.
 
Erronius

Erronius

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House explosion pic was deliberately set with natural gas to collect insurance payout, and killed two people.

Most people will have latex paints now, and aren't really a fire hazard.

Turning your furnace/AC off so you don't suck in particulate is a legit reason, though. Common when you sand down hardwood floors, too. Also take your smoke detectors down; that dust can wreck them.

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i was looking at the top garages and wondering how they crumpled, while right on the top the windows are fine. Maybe the explosion pushed cars parked in the driveway, into the garages.

then i saw the bottom houses and their are fucked too and they face away from the explosion.
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Just the pressure wave hitting those doors, which will act like a sail and will probably fold before the glass windows will. At the bottom of the pic, it's the internal pressure pushing outward after those homes were hit and pressurized, crumpling those doors on the opposite side.

Also LOL @ the melted vinyl siding at the top of the pic.

Fucker said:
I put one in a friend's house with extra sensors and it evened out her temps. She only has one AC unit and two upstairs bedrooms. Thermostat is downstairs so it would be blazing hot upstairs. The extra sensor fixed that right away without the usual icebox downstairs/pizza oven upstairs issue she had.
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This sounds like we're missing part of a story here. Damper and vent adjustments?
 
Daezuel

Daezuel

Potato del Grande
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Fuck wish I had thought to take down my smoke detectors, is it usual for one to go off over shower steam? Only went off once but fuck that noise.

Big Erronius Erronius what do you think about my Nest install? Should I do it on my own?
 
Lanx

Lanx

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Daezuel said:
Fuck wish I had thought to take down my smoke detectors, is it usual for one to go off over shower steam? Only went off once but fuck that noise.

Big Erronius Erronius what do you think about my Nest install? Should I do it on my own?
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considering you got it for 70bucks, yes!

aren't they usually 200?
 
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