Cooling (and Heating) Lesson #1: Programmable Thermostat Selection

Posted by Luke Fishback

In this post I will cover the logistics of selecting and choosing to install a programmable thermostat. If you live in a place with air-conditioning and/or heating a programmable thermostat can save you buckets of money and reduce your carbon footprint by a whole lot. I will devote a future post to quantifying these savings, but with summer upon us the installation cannot wait. In my own house, I installed a programmable thermostat and the thermostat paid for itself (in electricity savings) in the first month.