Nest Thermostat

We had a programmable thermostat in the Midwest. When we moved to Capitol Hill our 1890’s building had a building wide HVAC system. The air conditioning and heat went on based on a seasonal schedule and didn’t usually meet our needs. The in home thermostat was very basic and hardly controlled the temperature either. Our new condo in northern Virginia came with a Carrier thermostat. It was very confusing to use and we could never adjust it to our liking. We finally decided to upgrade to a Nest thermostat and are so happy we did. We ordered it back in August but it didn’t get installed until last week. No one has time for anything these days. So when the fall routine HVAC maintenance was scheduled, that was finally included. We needed to get a round wall plate to cover the square leftover paint job of the old unit. All in all it looks nice, but I really like the functionality. The best part is controlling it via the app - both at home and away from home. This is a so called “learning” device so after a month or so it begins to program our usual habits. It took a while to get it connected to Wi-Fi because I wasn’t turning the the dial correctly - I was tapping it like an iPad. But the you tube videos and google information was really helpful. I hope it continues to work as nicely as it has. These days it doesn’t take much to get us excited. This little gadget did the trick and we hopefully will be even more energy efficient.