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During the course of last 7 years I've rented 7 different flats / houses in the UK (all of them in London), 4 of them didn't have a thermostat, 3 had centrally
by DrJokepu 13y ago
During the course of last 7 years I've rented 7 different flats / houses in the UK (all of them in London), 4 of them didn't have a thermostat, 3 had centrally controlled thermostats, only one of them from the 21st century. They were all fairly typical London dwellings. So there you go, anecdotal evidence supported by some data points.
- jgrahamc 13y agoDamn you and your data that doesn't support my outrage :-)
- timthorn 13y agoData suggests that all properties outside London have thermostats, those within the M25 live cold and impoverished lives?
- makomk 13y agoI guess the other question is, how many of the houses and flats with no thermostats had heating systems that were actually compatible with Nest?
- dominicgs 13y agoThere's definitely a lot of variety in the London rental market, which isn't surprising given the size and age. I've had central controls, single thermostats, thermostatic radiator valves and, in one particularly sketchy conversion, radiators that were connected to someone else's heating system. However, I wouldn't have paid someone to install the Nest thermostat in any of these properties because I didn't own them and I wasn't planning to stay long enough to benefit. I can't imagine that it would have been of any benefit to my landlords to install one either. I presume that Nest's target market is homeowners, but their statement that there aren't many thermostats certainly appears to be based on anecdotal evidence from the rental market.