Nest Thermostat- Phaq-U

[Ramsker]

I just haven't ever found that a programmable thermostat can't do pretty much whatever I need it to do. No interest in a Nest. I know people who have them and like them, but seems like a solution looking for a problem to me.

And I'm pretty warm-blooded, but damn . . . some of you guys keep your houses way too cold for my liking. I have our down to 65 at night and during the day when I am working from home. My office stays a lot warmer with me in it, so the house can be cool. But we have it at 70 for when the rest of the family is around after about dinner time.

[StagLefty]

it would suck to have the house temperature 64 at night, that would be way too hot. 64 is where we set ours during the day and 55 at night. ours is a cheapy home depot one too. it works good.

I thought I was the only one,

[ruthabagah]

wow. got 3 nest installed in 3 properties: been rock solid since day one. Only had to rewire one of the older furnace, but aside from that, they have been working great for the last 3 years....

For the last house, I wanted to try something else and installed a Sensi: huge mistake. Returned it, and got a nest.

Now, there is one feature that you MUST disable: the auto learn. It's a waste of time and you will freeze to death.

[cstone]

58 at night and 68 during the day at our house. Blinds and curtains closed when the sun goes down and opened when the sun comes up. Old school solar heat. Down comforters are pretty warm and there are other ways of producing heat at night.

AC is run about a week every summer whenever we get a sustained heating spell in the upper 90's. Reversing the winter blinds routine and running ceiling fans at night makes the low humidity living of Colorado pretty comfortable for someone who grew up without AC in +90% humidity back east. I almost never run AC in my car. It goes on when we are on long drives across country and we are listening to something on the radio.

I never heard of NEST or learning thermostats. They must be from the devil

[drift_g35]

I love my nest, i've had no problems. It does have power requirements https://nest.com/support/article/Pow...ing-Thermostat I know that a lot of people in the HVAC business hated the old Nests because they would burn up circuit boards on the furnace. That is no longer an issue with the newer once (Gen2). I bet I save $150 a year with my Nest. Plus it syncs with almost everything.

[glenncal1]

You fellas understand what my wife doesn't. I would love to bring the house down to 60* or so at night. She wants it at 70* all the time. We compromise at 65* and she still has an electric blanket.

I bought the wife an electric blanket for xmas, best purchase ever, she can keep her (and the cat's) side nice and toasty and I can keep the room a little cool.

[RCCrawler]

Apparently the way our house is wired there is a power sharing issue with the wires and because of it the house wont heat correctly.

So your house is wired weird, but it's the thermostats fault?

[gnihcraes]

I've got an older programmable unit, has worked well. I need to upgrade, but I'm not sure the nest would give me much benefit.

House is 65 at night, 68 during the day. Pellet stove in basement bumps everything up a degree usually. Basement can stay 70* with the pellets burning.

[Blowby]

Just installed mine last night. We'll see how it works compared to the previous wifi thermostat. I've always liked the ability to access control while you are away especially for the garage heater.

[Dave_L]

My house came with a Honeywell thermostat. I love it. Too hot/cold while in bed? Roll over, grab my phone, open the app, adjust. No getting out of bed, going downstairs, etc. Worst was in the winter when we'd shut the heat off during the day because of the sun but forget to turn it back on before bed. Wake up at 3 am to 55 degrees and the dogs curled up as close as possible. LOL. Makes it very convenient.