Daily Home Renovation Tips每日家装修秘诀

Our我们的 ECOENERGY ecoenergy page contains all 15 of our articles outlining various details of the Energy Efficiency Evaluation (ie energy audit) report we received on our home as part of our participation of in the ecoENERGY Retrofit program.网页包含的所有15个我们的文章，概述了各种详细的能源效率评价（即能源审计）报告中，我们收到的关于我们的家园，作为我们的参与，在ecoenergy改造计划。

In the report, one of the recommendations was to include a timer for the switch on the bathroom walls used to turn the bathroom fan on and off.在报告中，其中一项建议是，以包括一个计时器的开关，浴室的墙壁用来把浴室范和关闭。 When I read that it was as if I was in one of those “I should have had a V8″ commercials on television.当我看到，这是因为如果我是在其中一人： “我应了V8引擎”商业广告在电视上。 What a great idea.有什么好主意。 I am always forgetting to turn the bathroom fan off.我总是忘了把浴室的范小康。 And, many times it runs for hours on end.和，多次运行几个小时就结束。 What a waste of electricity.什么是浪费电力。

And, as it turned out, when I attended the local energy conservation fair where I won the interior solar blind the big box building supply retailer happened to have a booth with energy conservation products, including a bathroom fan timer.而且，正如原来，当我参加了当地的能源节约，公平，我得到了室内太阳能盲目大方块建设供应零售商发生有一个摊位，与节约能源的产品，包括浴室范计时器。 It looked really great, nothing at all what I imagined.它期待真正的伟大，什么都我想象的。 It actually looked pretty cool!它实际上看起来相当酷！

So, the next time I went to that retailer’s store in our area I asked a sales associate where I could find them and that I was going to use it for the bathroom fan.因此，下一次我到认为，零售商的商店在我们地区我问销售副那里我可以找到他们和我是去使用它，浴室范。 I picked up two for $29.99 each.我挑选了两个为29.99美元。

Notice the product pictures below.通知该产品下面的图片。 In particular notice that, similar to the wireless wall switch product, this product is also like an iceberg in that most of it is hidden behind the wall.特别是看到，类似的无线长城开关产品，这个产品也是一样，冰山在这其中最重要的是背后隐藏的墙。 This could cause challenges upon installation for sufficient space for the wires and connector caps.这可能会导致安装后的挑战，有足够的空间，电线和连接器的上限。

So, a day later I attempted to install the product.因此，一天后，我试图安装该产品。 After my success with installing the wireless wall switch a few weeks before (as we described in a之后，我的成功与安装无线长城开关前几个星期（因为我们所描述的一 prior articles之前的文章 ) I was confident that I could install these as well. ）我是有信心，我可以安装这些以及。 Once I found the switch on the electric panel to turn off the power to the bathroom I proceeded to remove the face plate covering the wall light and fan switches.我曾经发现的开关电气小组，关闭电源，以浴室i着手移除面对板包括墙轻和风扇开关。

Uh-oh.嗯哦。 Dorothy, I don’t think we are in Kansas any more.阮德徽，我不认为我们是在堪萨斯州的任何更多。 Come back tomorrow when I reveal why I did not install these products.回来，明天当我揭示了为什么我没有安装这些产品。 It’s not just what you think.它不只是您的想法。

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