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Why do you have 8 thermostats? Is your house very very large? If true then is the personal cost to you of 8 Nest's really prohibitive?
by jusben1369 13y ago
Why do you have 8 thermostats? Is your house very very large? If true then is the personal cost to you of 8 Nest's really prohibitive?
- j15e 13y agoVery common in Europe & Canada
- parfe 13y agoNot large at all. One thermostat per room. With electric heat you have to put a thermostat in line between the circuit breakers and the heating element (radiant panels in my case). Centralizing the house on a single thermostat, like you would with forced air, would actually be incredibly difficult. It would also lose the benefit of fine control; one of the few positives of electric heat.
- aconbere 13y agoWorth pointing out (and you touch on this above) that this is not a function of electric heat but a function specifically of the type of electric heat (radiant in this case). I have electric heat by way of a ducted electric heat pump which is not zoned and thus centralized. Zoned ducted and non-ducted electric heat pumps both offer localized control over heating.
- URSpider94 13y agofor what its worth, people in the trades would not consider a heat pump "electric heat", even though of course the power does come from electricity. electric heat refers specifically to heat generated by heating an element with current.
- aconbere 13y agoFascinating! (coming back to this late). What would the consider an electric heat pump, or what would they call it?
- kisielk 13y agoThe same is also true for baseboard heaters, in general there is one thermostat per room.
- jusben1369 13y agoGot it. Thanks. Sorry for my ignorance.
- corresation 13y agoElectric heat means they have electric baseboards in each room, making individual control logical and obvious, so eight rooms really isn't outside of the ordinary. Compare that to central HVAC where there's one furnace and at most you have electric dampers restricting flow to an area of the house (though few houses have even that).
- andrewhillman 13y agoFor the average homeowner, Nest becomes unjustifiable if you need 2 thermostats.
- gonzo 13y agoI have two thermostats. The house has two heat pumps, one up, the other down.
- smackfu 13y agoI think it's pretty funny how much gnashing of teeth there is over a $250 item that's installed in a house, given how expensive so many other things in a house are.
- nicksergeant 13y agoThat's like saying it'd be reasonable to spend $200 on a light switch. The issue is that standard programmable thermostats don't come close to the price of a Nest... about $20.
- smackfu 13y agoThis wifi enabled plug is $50: http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C027/ http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C027/ These wifi light bulbs are 3 for $199: http://store.apple.com/us/product/HA779VC/A/philips-hue-connected-bulb-starter-pack http://store.apple.com/us/product/HA779VC/A/philips-hue-conn... I mean, I just don't get why people are so angry that someone would possibly want to spend some extra money to have a cool thermostat. If it was a cool video card for $249 that just lets them play games, no one would blink an eye. But because it's for a house, but for a part of the house that is supposed to be utilitarian, it's a sin.
- Domenic_S 13y agoNot at all, since 99.999% of homes have at least one light switch per room, and probably 80% of homes have only one thermostat.