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The wall plate is only needed if your drywall is already has a large cutout. When I took my old thermostat off the hole was small enough that I just painted aro
by jasonellis 11y ago
The wall plate is only needed if your drywall is already has a large cutout. When I took my old thermostat off the hole was small enough that I just painted around it and was able to mount the Nest without the mounting plate. I agree, it doesn't look quite as good with the mounting plate.
- S_A_P 11y agoagreed, and my wall did have an unnecessarily large cut out(house was built in 78 and it had some monstrous analog thermostat on it).