[quote=FlyerInHi]Congrats, BG. You’re a doer, not a whiner.
About wifi thermostat, I think you have an older house where then C wire is often not connected, or even existing for that matter. If you connected the C wire, then my hat’s off to you.
BTW, SDGE installs free ecobee wifi thermostats. But they can up your temperature in the summer, if you run AC. Which one did you get?
Learning to be your own general contractor takes time. I suppose knowledge is why contractors charge a lot like doctors or lawyers. Since i started remodeling places, I’ve built a pretty good “rollodex” (really a smart phone). Whenever i see people doing work, I stop, talk to them and get phone numbers.
On the issue of spoiling kids, the worse is enabling substance abuse, bailing out of jail, etc….[/quote]
FIH, my house was remodeled 23-24 years ago with five wires from the furnace to the thermostat. It is wired and ducted for A/C but I do not have one. The yellow wire is still unused. The previous owner used the blue wire for the fan (instead of the green one) so I did, too. The green one is the common wire, which I hooked up to “C.” The red (heat?) and white (aux) wires match their posts on the new one. The mfr inserted a loop wire between the (secondary) r and rh posts and I left it there because I do not need those.
Surprisingly, two of the videos I watched on how to install this particular model featured “can-do” females (Honeywell employee?)
I got it brand new from a private (out-of-state) seller on Amazon for $100 + $5 postage ($80 – $100 off) because there is currently a newer model out for $200 to $220. He only had 13 and they all sold out in less than 4 hours. I needed it for just heat at present so I really don’t need all the features this one has. I programmed it online at their mytotalconnectcomfort.com site. Here is the model:
The first pic shows it in its default “blue” color but it has about a dozen screen colors to choose from.
Even though it’s pretty “conspicuous” on the wall, lol, I love it so far. I’ll like it better if I go on winter trips and want to check on it or program it from afar. It replaces the (failed) 2009 version (link below), which I also installed myself back then, to replace a HUGE boxy thermostat with bottom levers:
Oh yeah. I know of boomers and seniors who continually bailed their forty-something kids out of jail (all due to repeat drug charges) … that is, until they no longer could. By then, it was too late. They used their own retirement funds to do so and two of them even had bondsmen liens on their own homes due to their wayward kids’ FTA in court. They should have never gotten involved in their kids’ problems to begin with.
You’re right. Having that type of “kid” has got to be way worse than having a kid stupid enough to have repeat (unplanned) kids of their own without any means to support them.
