A two car garage is where garage tech gets hard. One opener on the wide door, a second one on the single bay, and suddenly you are asking a wall-mounted keypad to do something it was never built for. The best smart garage door controllers for two car garages are not always the ones with … Read more
Local storage means your footage is saved on hardware inside your home — a hard drive in an NVR or DVR, or a microSD card in the camera itself — instead of being uploaded to a manufacturer’s cloud server. That single decision is what removes the monthly fee. If you are shopping for the best … Read more
A heat pump is the rare appliance that punishes a cheap thermostat faster than anything else in your house. A furnace turns a wire into heat, so almost any controller can run one. A heat pump has to negotiate a reversing valve, a second stage of electric strip heat, and sometimes a third stage of … Read more
A large bedroom is a hard room to cool. The ceiling is high, the floor is wide, and the fan you bought for your last, smaller bedroom looks like a toy once it is up there. The right answer is a 72 inch ceiling fan with remote control, a DC motor, and enough airflow to … Read more
Short ceilings leave you almost no room for a downrod, and a standard fan in a 7 foot room puts its blade tips where heads are. The Hunter Low Profile IV is the best low profile ceiling fan for low ceilings in : a true hugger body listed at 7.53 inches tall, a WhisperWind motor … Read more
Should you put a ceiling fan on your porch? Yes, and it is one of the highest-return dollar-for-dollar upgrades a covered porch can get. The short version: a covered porch needs a damp rated outdoor ceiling fan, an open gazebo or pergola needs a wet rated one, and a standard indoor fan will corrode and … Read more
Three fixtures earned a place on my short list for . The TANBABY 2-Pack Deformable Ceiling Light is the best overall pick for most garages, the Barrina 6-Pack 4-FT Linkable Shop Light is the best value for a full row of fixtures, and the hykolity 4FT 42W 4400LM 5000K is the one I trust for … Read more
A recessed lighting kit is a matched set of LED downlights, usually sold four, six, twelve or twenty-four at a time, bundled with the housings or junction boxes, trims and drivers you need to put ceiling pot lights in a room. Canless kits push a slim fixture and its junction box up through a hole … Read more
Under cabinet lighting is the only thing that actually lights your prep surface. Ceiling fixtures sit too far forward, so the wall cabinets throw a hard shadow across the counter and you end up chopping vegetables in the dark. The fix is a strip, bar, or puck fixture mounted to the underside of those cabinets, … Read more
A driveway is the one part of a property that stays dark no matter how good the rest of your outdoor lighting is. Solar flood lights fix that without a trench, a new circuit, or an electrician, and in the models on the market are stronger than they were two years ago. We compared 12 … Read more