5 Smart Thermostat Mistakes Power Companies Hope You Keep Making

🔧 Everything I learned fixing HVAC for 25 years, in one plain-English book. 📘 THE HVAC SURVIVAL GUIDE - get it here: https://raydutton.com Think back to the day the power company offered you a free thermostat, or a check just for joining some rewards program. It felt like a good deal. What that check actually bought them was a hand on your dial - on the hottest afternoons they can reach in and push your thermostat up a few degrees, and most folks never notice who did it. Twenty-five years I spent in this trade, and I never saw a thermostat hand this much control to somebody who isn't paying your bill. The 5 smart-thermostat mistakes that hand your house to somebody else, and the two-minute fix that takes it all back: The 'rewards' program that lets the power company raise (and in a rare emergency, LOCK) your thermostat The learning feature that guesses your schedule wrong and fixes it at the priciest hour The phone-watching setting that tracks one phone and bakes the house when that person leaves Leaving it on automatic at all - the three switches to turn off to get a plain thermostat back The install, C-wire-adapter, and service-plan markup on a job that's four wires and a level Chapters: 0:00 The hand on your dial 1:01 #1 The 'rewards' program (they can lock your thermostat) 5:13 #2 The learning feature (it guesses wrong on your dime) 7:37 #3 The phone-watching setting (one phone decides) 9:05 #4 Leaving it on automatic (turn off all 3 switches) 11:14 #5 The install + C-wire + service-plan markup 13:07 Your two-minute night (the switch they never show you) Tell me what state you're in, and whether you checked your rewards screen and found your power company already sitting on it. I read every one. Subscribe, I put one of these out just about every day. #SmartThermostat #Thermostat #HVAC #PowerCompany #EnergyBill #DemandResponse #HomeMaintenance #SaveMoney