Smart Thermostats

Sliced Bread

BBC

Health & Fitness

4.6 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Can Smart Thermostats save you money on energy bills?

Temperatures are falling and conversations are already turning to whether or not the heating has been turned on! Although energy prices have come down a little since last year, the withdrawal of universal Government support to alleviate the cost could mean bills stay high for a lot of people.

Listener Wendy is already doing a lot to save money (having listened to a previous Sliced Bread episode on Portable Heaters - check it out on BBC Sounds!) but she's keen to know if the addition of a Smart Thermostat might make even more of a difference.

Are they as clever as they claim to be when it comes to controlling the heating in your home?

If you?ve seen an ad, trend or fad relating to another consumer product and wonder if there?s any evidence to back up a claim, then email us: [email protected] or you can send a voice note to our WhatsApp number: 07543 306807

PRESENTER: Greg Foot PRODUCER: Simon Hoban

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0:00.0	Hello, podcast fan.
0:03.0	Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party.
0:06.7	We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July
0:09.0	for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival.
0:12.8	We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting,
0:15.3	including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane,
0:18.4	and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder.
0:23.2	You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, and the best part is free.
0:28.1	To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org slash fringe.
0:34.4	BBC Sounds, music, Radio, podcasts.
0:43.8	Hello, I'm Greg Foote and welcome to the show that investigates the Wonder Products promising to improve our health, wealth and happiness.
0:47.4	My mission here is simple.
0:48.9	Find out if they are indeed the best thing since sliced bread or marketing BS.
0:56.3	And this week's suggested wonder product is from Wendy Hartle in Cambridgeer. Hi Greg we're finding it difficult to decide whether we should
1:05.3	buy a smart thermostat for our home. We currently have a standard gas central heating system with a condensing boiler.
1:15.6	We use radiators that we have individual thermostats in each room.
1:19.6	We use a wood burning stove in the winter and the central heating thermostat is on the wall in our hallway.
1:28.5	Will a smart thermostat work any better for us?
1:31.9	Are they SB or BS, please?
1:34.8	If, like Wendy, you have a wonder product you would like me to investigate,
1:38.3	please do send it over.
1:39.9	Either as a voice note on WhatsApp to 07543306-807 or in an email to slighter.bred at BBC.co.com.
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