Looked at a house today. One somewhat odd thing that I didn't understand was that it has two thermostats, one on the first floor and one on the second floor, but there is only one HVAC system. How does that work? Would that lead to any problems with wanting to put in a smart thermostat?
not as long as the thermostats are set ip correctly there are several things could be going on as far as multiple air handlers om one condenser, or a multi zone sustem, or maybe even an entire second system you just didn't see making sure you understand exactly what it is would be key to setting up the stats
We have 3 thermostats, one on each floor, for one furnace. It is a zone system that allows you to set each level differently based upon when you are going to be using the level. If that is what is going on, there should be something like this panel near the furnace.
Possibly, but I don't think so. If done right, I think it should be more efficient than a smart thermostat because it is more customizable. We installed ours one year ago and as I recall we had the option to upgrade to internet connected or z-wave thermostats that link in to smart-home systems. But I asked about Nest, Ecobee 3 or the Honeywell Lyric and none of them would communicate with the zone stuff. I can't recall the entire conversation now but our contractor convinced me this was going to be much better than the smart systems.
The gist was a smart thermostat knows when you're home and heats/cools the entire house. This will do more to heat the rooms we would use at the appropriate time of day.
I work in hvac and I would never buy a house with one unit for two floors if your summers get hot at all. Even with zones set up you are going to deal with big temperature swings between the two floors. Most likely you will be deciding between having your first floor comfortable and your second floor too hot or your first floor too cold while the second floor is comfortable. Plus it's a very inefficient set up since you will be unnecessarily be cooling one floor.
I should have clarified - do you use a Brillo pad or something? I fucking hate cleaning the shower so if I can find a drill attachment that would be amazing
something with a scrubber on the other side like this: you can also buy shower cleaner where you spray the shower after every use and it supposedly cleans itself, not sure how it works, never used it.
Sure it can work but I've seen way more that don't. Unless I absolutely love the house then I'm making sure each floor has it's own dedicated unit. I actually dealt with this myself, house we bought only had one unit for both floors but I knew going in I was going to change that. Installed new unit and all new duct work and never looked back.
I travel most weeks for work and even not being home most of the week and keeping the place clean, the dusting, vaccuuming, and cleaning the bathrooms takes time. My cleaning crew was charging around $80 every two weeks for only a couple hours of work. The cost makes up the time spent traveling and the small stuff which has to be done. Sucks but if you want a cleaning crew that is what it costs.
It just seems silly to me trade a flight to anywhere in the world for minimal cleaning every month. But people value things differently, I get that
Oh I am in the same boat. I have gone back and forth on the option to either have a regularly cleaning crew or to just do it myself. That was honestly part of the reason I put a keypad lock on my front door. I got tired of firing cleaning crews and having to get my key back lol.
People who pay for cleaners can probably do both, just saying. You're also assuming they have time. This is a stupid argument you're making.
I'm not arguing anything. I'm just making an observation about things that don't make sense to me. Carry on with your pompous shit though
We do monthly at $110. We don't want to be spending our little free time together cleaning bathrooms or swiffering floors. A minimal cost that does not prevent us from doing anything else we want. Agreed with it being some of the best money spent each month.
I have a biweekly cleaning crew also. Between me traveling for work and the wife working and dealing with 2 kids, we look at it as money well spent.
I don't think that really has anything to do with it. If you're not messy it's just very simple to clean as you go. It's not 'poor' to just do shit yourself and not pay someone else
HOA got new roofs put on all our buildings over the last couple weeks. Seems to be going well except they tore up 4 of my window screens. Now I have to chase down my HOA rep and be all "replace my fucking screens".
If we ever remodel our main floor and upstairs that is what we will do as well. As it is, we have two furnaces but one services the original (1959) portion of the house and the second services the addition (1994). The newer part is the part with zone system and that works really well. The original portion of the house --which does not have zone--doesn't cool the upstairs very well. There was about a 5 degree difference between our son's room and the main level where the thermostat is. We spray foamed the attic insulation (I was hoping to get by cheaply) and the difference is down to 3-4 degrees but it would be better if we either increase the HVAC trunk coming from downstairs or ideally installed a dedicated unit upstairs.
This. Our house has one room upstairs (not a loft, but stairs leading to a door with a bed and bath, so it's walled off), and it's brutally hot in the summer. My wife works from home and that's her office. Most days she ends up downstairs in the afternoon, because it's just too warm up there.
What's the latest and greatest model of Roomba, or other brand of robotic floor cleaner, that y'all recommend?
I have the ilife after my roomba died. Much cheaper, seems to clean just as well and very quiet. I4s I think is the model
How many children do you have? We have a maid that comes every 2 weeks for $110. Most of our friends do as well.
Nothing odd about that at all. Most houses that aren't one floor have multiple zones, hell, it's odd if they don't. No reason for your garage (assuming heated) to be set to the same temp as your bedroom. Same goes with living room and bedroom, etc. Even in a single floor plan home it wouldn't be weird to have three zones, one for the bedrooms, one for the living areas, and one for the garage.