- Your electric bill is 30% higher this month. Is something wrong?
- All of your bulbs are suddenly burning out much quicker. Why?
- Two guests in a row have complained that the guest bedroom is cold.
- The pool is taking longer to warm up than you remember.
- It's spring - what needs to be done to get the pool house ready.
- It's going to be 95 degrees out for 3 days straight - what was that special thing you needed to do 3 years ago?
I have a simple premise. Without logs of both system performance and maintenance activities, it's very hard for owners to make sense of what is actually going on in a large home. And forget about tracking what happened - it's too hard.
The solution - a flight recorder for your home...operating quietly in the background keeping track of things so you don't have too.
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