would suck if you're on an international flight and just as you cross anchorage you remembered that you forgot to shut off the damn ventilation fan in your bathroom. :icon17: hahaha.

do to the business I'm in ;) , my house is pretty automated. things shut off even when i don't want them too LOL:icon18:

:bowrofl: hahaha!!

my electricity plays games with me some times as well.

think im going to stop by my local strip mall tonight to pickup the card and gift wrap. one less thing to think about. :D

i was thinking of celebrating this hallmark holiday this year. need to pick something up for the lil lady

the j-version is that girls give guys chocolates and stuff on v-day.
then come march, there is white day where the guys give back to the girls.

not sure why they call it white day? maybe comes from white chocolate opposed to the dark chocolate guys receive? :confused: :ugh:

I have recently dipped my toes into the automated systems. We have a Nest thermostat and love it. Auto-away plus I can change the temperature from my phone or tablet in bed! :tup:

its like all the bs holidays they come up with throughout the year for no reason. :ugh:

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that's cool. i was thinking about doing the ip thermostat myself. is that ip or is that BT? :confused: i keep forgetting. :D

Nest is Wi-Fi (so IP, I guess?) :tup:

cool :tup: yah, ip. i should look into that. my current pre-wifi programmable thermostat has problems with swing anyway.

its too sensitive where it's located on the wall. ive even added a box over the thermostat to isolate it a little and to give some air insulation to keep it from over reacting.

i should just swap out the whole thing. :D

Our old thermostat couldn't even program a separate weekend schedule :ugh2:

The Nest is nice, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem of a poorly designed system. We have a two story house but the stairs are open to the living room. The upstairs is generally scalding and the downstairs is typically freezing :eekdance:

I'm not sure we plan to live there long enough to justify ripping it out for a whole new dual zone system with separate upstairs and downstairs supply. I am, however, beginning to consider putting some dampers in the existing ducts to better control the airflow. The poor access to the ducts will probably make that an expensive endeavor, unfortunately.

February 2014 Holidays, Bizarre, Unique, and Special Days

Today is Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day, Make A Friend Day, and White T-Shirt Day.

Thursday is Get A Different Name Day.

yah, our house is like that too and i took a good week or two to mechanically set the vent registers in each of the rooms, and was able to get it pretty balanced. i also found that if you jam a screw into the register's pivot you can make them lock in place.

i dont know in texas do you still have the registers on the ceiling? in my area we have the registers on the floors, so each frikken time i vac'ed over the registers the vent setting would all get messed up. :ugh: with my little screw trick, no more issue with vents moving. :D

i also adjust the intake vents using magnetic vent covers or even just a slip of papertowel taped. works great. :D


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Honeywell makes one similar to Nest that is half the price, that does not learn, but can be set to certain parameters. we have it in our shop and is great for raising the heat before we get there.

for television and lighting I recommend getting a logitec remote and ir switches for a cheap way of controlling your lighting.