Where do I find a thermostat for my home that will switch from heat to cool automatically?

Question

I just want to put the thermostat at a temperature and let the thermostat keep cool or heat as needed.

Answer 1

The feature your looking for is "Auto Change Over".  Most home improvement stores should have them.

Make sure when you start looking you have to answer a few questions.

1. Do you have a heat pump?  If so you will need a stat that has "Emergency Heat" note: there are stats that state single stage heat pumps but they do not have "Emergency Heat"

2 Does your outdoor unit have a "Multi-Stage Compressor"

3 Is the indoor unit Gas or Electric.  If it is gas and the outdoor unit is a heat pump you will need a stat the has a "Fossil Fuel" option as the gas furnace will be used as "Emergency Heat"

Good Luck with your project

Answer 2

Home Depot

Lowes

True Value Hardware

Ace Hardware

If you don't have any of these you could look in your phone book under heating and air conditioning.

Answer 3

Home Depot, Lowes, Wal Mart. Any good store that carries thermostats.

Answer 4

With no offense to answer 1, that link provides info on a programmable thermostat, it does not however show that it's a thermostat that will auto switch from cold to heating, and/or back again.

   Certainly I GET IT with regard to the concept and context of an auto switch, IE: a constant of 70 degrees, plus/minus 1 or 2, but I cannot imagine that method being energy efficient at all, given daily or hourly fluctuations in any daily, exterior temp. Heavy duty cooking, heat and humidity from showering and bathing, window treatments, etc.

   I'd also assume, that your location would play a major role, as well as your level of comfort/ temp. range, most tolerable to you. Obviously that can be tested. When inactive in your home, 70 might get chilly? OR not be quite warm enough when it's 28 degrees outdoors.

  Of course I could be way off base? I live in South West FL, and love it hot, but anything below 74 is chilly to me.

Just my two "sense"

Answer 5

Go to Lowes