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Outfitting Your Home With the Best of Both Worlds

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Outfitting Your Home With the Best of Both Worlds

What came first, the chicken or the egg? It’s a fair question that be applied to many lines of thinking. This includes the advancements made in HVAC heating and cooling systems over the years.

Should you purchase a heating and cooling system that is compatible with your thermostat, or a thermostat that is compatible with your heating and cooling system? As has been a trend in the heating and cooling industry as of late, “smart” thermostats have been popping up all over the place. At their core, they’re a fine looking piece of gadgetry and have many benefits that any home or business owner can take full advantage of. That is, if they have an HVAC environment that can handle the communicable features offset by such a device.

Thermostats have come a long way. Most of us reading this have likely run into the thermostat that you adjusted simply by moving the switch up and down along the “thermometer” and leaving it at rest where your desired temperature was on the box. Then of course, is the radial dial. Same idea. You move the dial until the red arrow is pointing at your desired temp. And that was it. The bells and whistles were rounded out by the ability to also read the temperature as it stood in the house or office. Which is to say, there weren’t any bells and whistles at all. Set it and forget it (until of course, the bill came, then you probably set it a bit lower).

Then came the digital interface, which enabled you to set your thermostat for particular temperatures during particular times of the day, which allowed for a better grasp on efficient environmental control. Things couldn’t get any better. Until they did. And, while the features continue to roll out, the visual appeal of the contemporary thermostat is on point with modern, sleek design.

But, somewhere in all this transition we lost sight of the fact that sometimes an updated thermostat (for an older heating and cooling system, or a new system) doesn’t necessarily mean the cost savings you talked yourself into. And further, that a thermostat is simply a switch that turns the heating/cooling on or off. (Sorry to burst your bubble.)

While third party “add on” thermostats provide added features for older HVAC systems, they may in fact limit the capabilities of newer systems. Twenty years ago we never heard of Nest, Ecobee, and others like them… That was when your existing HVAC system was installed. For sure adding one of these thermostats to your existing system will add features. However the HVAC systems we install today offer significant features that require communicating controls to function at their full capacity. Communicating controls operate your system at the perfect balance of capacity for the temperature you desire. Why limit your features with third party thermostats, when you are, for all intents and purposes, purchasing an HVAC system that can provide both style and comfort.

And further, we’re always here to answer questions if you’ve got one you need answered.

 

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