So this smart thermostat will be taking care of the heating and cooling in this home going forward
All the pleading and attention I drew to the cost of air conditioning our home appeared to be completely unheard by my family. This air conditioning issue has been something that I’ve tried to manage since we moved here. We are going into our fourth summer season this year and things are going to be different now. The first few years that we lived here, I sort of went with the notion that since there was essentially no heating costs here, let the air conditioning go. And let it go we did. Of course, it was so different to endure this level of heat and humidity that comes with our new region. It was almost as though we needed more cooling just to survive and transition into a summer that is a brutal, hot beast. Yet last year, I gathered everybody around to try to institute a savings strategy when it came to air conditioning. And I kept trying to bring it up throughout the spring and into the summer. But like I said, nobody was listening. The thermostat was getting yanked around all over the place which isn’t great. To have any chance of saving on air conditioning, you have to have a consistent thermostat setting discipline. My family just can’t seem to pull it together when it comes to that thermostat discipline, so I’m going another way. Last week, the HVAC professionals came out here and installed a smart thermostat. So this smart thermostat will be taking care of the heating and cooling in this home going forward. But it’s the air conditioning costs that I need to be rescued from with this smart thermostat. So I’m going to shut off any access to manually override the smart thermostat.