Playing House: Nest

On most days THE WIFE™ runs out of the house leaving the thermostat at one temperature, forgetting to change it. So the Nest Learning Thermostat learns your schedule, programs itself and can be controlled from your phone. Teach it well and the Nest Thermostat can lower your heating and cooling bills up to 20%. Just turn it up and turn it down. The Nest Thermostat learns what temperatures you like and builds a personalized schedule. Use the Nest app to connect to your thermostat from a smartphone. Getting in early on a cold winters night? Turn up the heater miles from home.

Want the big picture? Nest can email you a monthly Energy Report with a summary of your energy use and tips to help THE WIFE™ save. Nest Thermostat, $249.00 at Nest.com. Click “continue reading” to learn about Nest’s Smoke + Carbon Monoxide Detector.

THE WIFE™ can protect her nest with their Smoke and Carbon Monoxide (CO) alarm. In addition to an alarm sound, Nest Protect speaks to you with a human voice. It tells you what the problem is and where it is. And if you have more than one Nest Protect, they connect so they can speak up at the same time even if Wi-Fi is down. Voice alarms can be important to your family’s safety. You have more information when seconds count. And according to a study, children can sleep through a beeping alarm. So Nest Protect sounds the alarm and uses a human voice to help kids wake up.

Use both products together…. If Nest Protect’s carbon monoxide alarm goes off, your Nest Thermostat automatically turns off your gas furnace—a possible source of poisonous carbon monoxide leaks. Even get a message on your smartphone or tablet if the smoke or carbon monoxide alarm goes off. Choose from black or white to match your home decor, $99.00 at Nest.com