If you ever plan on doing any renovation or anything you'll need to pull significant permits/inspections for, you may have to do hardwired anyway. Definitely required for all new construction or anything that needs to be brought up to code.
Although I don't blame you for not wanting to pull a few hundred feet of 14-3 romex.
I know you mentioned NH, but in MA it is one per floor at each landing & one in every bedroom. CO detectors are probably a good thing to have with an oil furnace, so it is nice those are combo units.
Yeah, the NEST stuff is so pricey. If I went with NEST t-stats I'd have over $1200 in just that. No thanks. I have some 7 day programmable Honeywells for $200 total, even that is overkill for us right now since we pretty much just leave everything one "hold" to 58F except the master bedroom.I'm glad I didn't go with the Nest t-stat, I would've confused the hell outta that poor thing. The Honeywell one is a much better fit for me. Plus I think they're having issues with the latest Nest software as well...
I like the 'acknowledge' feature on their smokes but definitely not worth $100+ per unit to me for that, for the 3 times a year I might set it off by accident. I'll stick with my properly ventilated range and functional kitchen, thanks.
My smokes are all interconnected but it was done when the whole house was rewired, so they're physically wired to each other and a breaker in the basement. Not the easiest thing to try and do on an existing installation but I'd take that over wireless any day.
Why can't we ever do like a Thursday afternoon?
