He told us that we needed to install a smart thermostat.
Although we weren’t striving to save money on our energy expenses, we still wanted to take some demands off of our budget. We started saving with the less consequential things, like our morning coffee. We didn’t realize how much money we were throwing away by buying coffee on the way to work. We found that we saved hundreds of dollars by buying coffee and making our own in the morning. We also found that we saved a lot of money by making our meals at home. We didn’t always cook huge meals, but by cooking at home and not going out every day, we were saving over a thousand dollars every quarter. Now, I am beginning to look at what kind of savings I can have on my energy bills. Our energy bills were through the roof this summer. It had been particularly brutal with high humidity and a lot of heat waves. I called the HvAC company and asked if there was something we could do to save on the energy bills and yet keep our AC unit under control. He told us that we needed to install a smart thermostat. The smart thermostat gave us the ability to monitor the usage of our air conditioning. We could reset the thermostats in every room and see where we were losing energy. We didn’t even need to be in the house to monitor where our AC was being wasted. I couldn’t believe that we saved about fifteen percent on our energy bills, just in the month that the smart thermostat was installed.
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