Smart solutions to help homeowners
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Smart solutions to help homeowners
As temperatures begin to cool and throughout the colder months, it’ s a good time to tackle often-overlooked maintenance tasks and make sure your home is prepared for colder weather. Winter home maintenance isn’ t just about staying warm; it’ s also about helping your home run efficiently and being ready for seasonal risks.
Smart solutions can help make these tasks easier – from Honeywell Home connected smart thermostats that optimize comfort and energy savings, to First Alert ® smoke alarms that can help keep families safe.
Taking steps now can help heating systems run more efficiently, reduce energy costs and protect against seasonal risks like frozen pipes or carbon monoxide( CO) leaks. Here are five ways to help prepare your home for a safer, more comfortable winter.
1. Start with Comfort: Upgrade to a Smart Thermostat
Experience a new style of smart comfort with the Honeywell Home X8S smart thermostat – a combination of precision sensing and control, intuitive touchscreen interface and premium design that delivers the brand’ s smartest thermostat yet.
Backed by over a century of innovation, the X8S smart thermostat offers a first-of-its kind video doorbell integration that allows homeowners to conveniently view live video streams from compatible doorbells and speak to visitors directly from the thermostat. The sleek, fiveinch touchscreen enables intuitive operation of temperature programming and customised idle screens that display information the homeowner wants to see, including a five-day weather forecast, digital clocks, indoor air quality( IAQ) information, design themes and colour combinations to match any home décor.
In addition to maintaining ideal temperature, the smart thermostat monitors humidity, tracks volatile organic compounds and estimates carbon dioxide levels. HVAC installers can help homeowners maintain optimal IAQ with humidity and ventilation control to keep the home’ s air fresh.
The X8S smart thermostat also delivers proactive HVAC system performance alerts by continuously monitoring for unusual patterns – sending a notification to both the homeowner and their technician when an issue is detected.