Hi:
I'm buying an older modular home that has electric baseboard heat with a mechanical thermostat in each room. I'm not sure at this moment, but I think there are 4 or 5 thermostats (one for each of 3 bedrooms, plus living room and kitchen). I will also probaby be finishing the basement and adding more rooms that will need thermostatic control of some form.
I'd like to have a way of controlling these centrally, or even remotely. But as a minimum I want setback functionality.
Here are the options as I see them:
a) replace each thermostat with a digital programmable standalone thermostat. This gives me setback without remote controllability
b) replace each thermostat with a WIFI or ZWAVE digital programmable standalone thermostat. This gives me setback AND remote controllability, but could be very expensive.
c) install some form of networked thermostat or sensor in each room, with a centralized control or zone system. The Honeywell "RedLINK" system seems close, but I'm not sure it supports exactly what I am looking for. Are there other options?
Looking around the internet, I have not found many options to addrsss this particular situation. I live in the northeast, so electric heat is very expensive and I'd like to mitigate that, but if the theromstats cost $1500 it would take a while to pay back. So I'm looking for an exonomical option. (a) seems like the easiest solution, and I can probably do it for under $200. what are the other options?
Thanks,
Dave
I'm buying an older modular home that has electric baseboard heat with a mechanical thermostat in each room. I'm not sure at this moment, but I think there are 4 or 5 thermostats (one for each of 3 bedrooms, plus living room and kitchen). I will also probaby be finishing the basement and adding more rooms that will need thermostatic control of some form.
I'd like to have a way of controlling these centrally, or even remotely. But as a minimum I want setback functionality.
Here are the options as I see them:
a) replace each thermostat with a digital programmable standalone thermostat. This gives me setback without remote controllability
b) replace each thermostat with a WIFI or ZWAVE digital programmable standalone thermostat. This gives me setback AND remote controllability, but could be very expensive.
c) install some form of networked thermostat or sensor in each room, with a centralized control or zone system. The Honeywell "RedLINK" system seems close, but I'm not sure it supports exactly what I am looking for. Are there other options?
Looking around the internet, I have not found many options to addrsss this particular situation. I live in the northeast, so electric heat is very expensive and I'd like to mitigate that, but if the theromstats cost $1500 it would take a while to pay back. So I'm looking for an exonomical option. (a) seems like the easiest solution, and I can probably do it for under $200. what are the other options?
Thanks,
Dave