Wasted $180 on a "smart" water heater timer, my neighbor's advice was free
Last spring I bought a wifi water heater timer from a big box store in Marietta for about $180 plus $60 for the plumber to install it. It kept dropping the signal and resetting to weird schedules, so we had cold showers twice before I gave up. My neighbor said his dad just put a $10 mechanical timer on the tank and it worked fine for 15 years. Has anyone else had a gadget in the house that just made more work than it saved?