Nest Thermostat: Price and Guide

By David Tait Reviewed by Cormac Breen

Editorial Manager

The Nest Thermostat costs between €200 to €250 not including installation fees and is available from most online Irish retailers including Harvey Norman and Screwfix. The smart thermostat learns your heating and cooling preferences to automatically adjust your home's temperature for comfort and energy efficiency, helping you to save money on your energy bills.

How Much Does the Nest Thermostat Cost?

In Ireland, you can purchase the Nest Thermostat from Google's online store and select Irish retailers such as Harvey Norman, Curries and Screwfix.

Depending on the model you choose along with any additional accessories, the price ranges from €200 to €250 not including any installation fees.

The table below offers an oversight of the price range for the Nest Thermostat and its accessories:

Source: Various Online Retailers
Last Updated: December 2024

How Much Does It Cost To Install a Nest Thermostat?

Generally, you can expect to pay between €60 and €100 for a standard Nest Thermostat installation. However, it's important to get specific quotes from installers to get an accurate estimate for your particular situation.

The cost of installing a Nest Thermostat in Ireland can vary depending on a few factors:

1. Complexity of Installation: If you have a simple heating system, the installation might be straightforward and less expensive. However, if you have a more complex system or require additional wiring, the cost could increase.
2. Installer's Rates: Different installers may charge different rates for their services. It's always a good idea to get quotes from multiple installers to compare prices
3. Location: Prices may vary slightly depending on where you live in Ireland.

How Does the Nest Thermostat Compare With Other Smart Thermostats?

While most thermostats cover the same basic functions, specific needs and personal preferences may see one perform than another.

Below, you will find a table that compares the Nest Thermostat with other leading smart thermostat brands:

Given that all thermostats cover the same features, the difference may come down to price. The table breakdown below offers an overview of the average price for each smart thermostat.

While the Nest Thermostat covers the same features as other smart thermostats, its high price may go against it when compared to cheaper brands that cover the same basic functions.

How Much Does It Cost To Install a Nest Thermostat?

Generally, you can expect to pay between €60 and €100 for a standard Nest Thermostat installation. However, it's important to get specific quotes from installers to get an accurate estimate for your particular situation.

The cost of installing a Nest Thermostat in Ireland can vary depending on a few factors:

1. Complexity of Installation: If you have a simple heating system, the installation might be straightforward and less expensive. However, if you have a more complex system or require additional wiring, the cost could increase.
2. Installer's Rates: Different installers may charge different rates for their services. It's always a good idea to get quotes from multiple installers to compare prices
3. Location: Prices may vary slightly depending on where you live in Ireland.

How Does the Nest Thermostat Work?

A Nest Thermostat is what’s known as a smart thermostat. This means that unlike normal, traditional thermostats, the Nest Thermostats uses machine learning to be help you optimise the heating in your home and save energy.

Some of its key features are:

• Smart Learning - The thermostat learns your temperature preferences and creates a customized schedule accordingly, such as lower heat at night.
• Energy History - It provides detailed energy usage data, so you can see how much energy you're using and identify areas where you can save to be more energy efficient.
• Remote Control - You can control your thermostat remotely using the Nest app, so you can adjust the temperature from anywhere.
• Voice Control - It's compatible with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, so you can control your thermostat with your voice.

What sets the Nest apart from other thermostats, such as Hive, Netatmo, and Tado, is that it uses smart technology to “learn” your routine and preferences outside the initial timings you set for hot water and heating, within the first few days of using it in your house.

What Are the Advantages of the Nest Thermostat?

It has an extensive amount of features:

• Eco mode allows Nest to turn off your heating when nobody is at home and thus avoid wasting money - and up your home's BER rating.
• It can control radiators and hot water separately. (except for where your hot water comes from an immersion water heater).
• Can be wall mounted to replace the existing thermostat, or sit on a shelf or near any socket.
• Automatically “learns” the temperatures you like best when you’re at home and adjusts itself.
• Although the main Nest account is linked with just one email address, the main account holder can grant access to others using Nest family accounts.
• You can also password protect the heating controls.
• Shows you which settings are better for saving energy with a simple leaf icon.

What Are the Reviews for the Nest Thermostat Like?

While the Nest Thermostat boats considerable advantages over other smart heating gadgets, such as its ability to smart learn your heating habits, it would seem customers are not happy with the product.

From over 1,000 customer reviews on Trustpilot, over 90% gave the product a one start review, pointing to the following issues as reasons for their negative comments:

• Difficulties programming.
• Smart learning feature leading to illogical heating changes
• Compatibility with Google Home and Google Nest.
• Only works with an internet connection.
• Needs to be plugged in constantly.
• Poor customer support when dealing with issues

Below are some examples of the reviews left by customers.

Nest thermostat has broken and not able to contact customer services to discuss, everything done by bot. The thermostat has never been user friendly and is is not intuitive as it claims. It comes on at times we don’t need and has wasted money. Now it is broken, but unless we provide details of our bank card they refuse to send a replacement. We don’t have the ability to do this so are left with no heating but their product is faulty and we have no way of fixing it

Install the Nest thermostat worked for a month and stopped.I called customer service wich is worthless and don't get any help and you won't get refund after spend a lot of money on something which is not working. Avoid if you don't want to lose money.