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In my experience, almost certainly not. I even find it kind of offensive that they would say that. There is some old and poorly maintained housing stock here,
by polshaw 13y ago
In my experience, almost certainly not. I even find it kind of offensive that they would say that.
There is some old and poorly maintained housing stock here, so there are definitely some homes that don't, but I would bet the majority of these are rentals and a lot of them student rentals. My instinct would put the upper bound at 20%.
I can assure them that people in these properties (old, poorly maintained and usually rentals, correlating to low income) are not going to be buying a nest thermostat. I would be amazed if more than 1% of UK nest sales are going to homes without a thermostat.
- lucaspiller 13y agoI live in an area with no gas, so all our heating is electric. We have storage heaters, but Nest wouldn't work with them (there is no temperature setting once it's on). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_heater
- makomk 13y agoYeah, I reckon the only houses that wouldn't have one are ones owned by someone who was too cheap to splash out for one of the existing wireless thermostats.
- leoc 13y agoIt's hard to even imagine a radiator-based central heating system (whether gas- or home heating oil-fired) that doesn't have one of those cheap little bimetallic-strip thermostats, at least. Now lots of UK homes don't have per-radiator thermostats, or don't have central-heating timers: maybe that's what Nest meant to say.