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Review: Samsung SmartThings + ADT Home Safety Expansion Kit at Best Buy

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The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free.

We’ve had the ADT Home Security Starter Kit, from Samsung SmartThings & ADT in our house for a few months now. It like the service and the devices. I had written about the Starter Kit previously, but we also received the Samsung SmartThings Expansion Pack which included additional SmartThings. The expansion pack has an ADT Smoke Alarm, an ADT Carbon Monoxide Alarm, and an ADT Water Leak Detector. Each of these devices was easy to install and certainly provided me with the peace of mind to know that if something wasn’t right in the house, I’d know about it immediately.

I think that most of America has seen a little show about the Pearson family and how their lives were devastated by a fire. Knowing that the ADT Smoke Alarm was in the house keeping watch over the family brings with it peace of mind. Having help only seconds away through the ADT Security Hub and the connected devices also helps to alleviate the fears in my mind.

About a year back I was in the cellar over near the furnace. I noticed that there was a huge hole in the pipe that let the exhaust from the furnace into the chimney. I called my plumber right away and he dropped everything he was working on to come right over. When he told me that we were only alive because our house is so poorly insulated and drafty I felt sick. I didn’t know that such a danger from Carbon Monoxide poisoning was lurking there in my cellar. We’ve had everything fixed since then but to be able to have a Carbon Monoxide detector that could send me alerts directly to my phone would make me immediately aware of anything were ever to happen again.

Water Detector

We have an old house and as such, things like the water heater are old as well. With the ADT Water Leak Detector I would know immediately if that Hot Water heater failed. The older it gets the more of a real possibility it becomes.

Connecting these three devices to my existing ADT Security Hub was very easy. Each new thing has a QR code that you scan with your phone and then you tell the app where in your house you are placing it. That means that you don’t have to go searching the house trying to figure out which smoke detector is beeping for no reason. A game that Allison and I have played many times. I could have sworn it was the one in the basement, only to discover that it was really in the first floor hallway. With the devices set up in the app I would know immediately which device to inspect.

Technology

Now’s the Time to Get the LG Twin Wash System at Best Buy

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The reviewer has been compensated in the form of a Best Buy Gift Card and/or received the product/service at a reduced price or for free

We recently had a home energy assessment and one of the things that we were offered was a rebate on a front loading washer. Then I learn about the great deal that is happening at Best buy for the LG Twin Wash system which includes LG Front Load laundry paired with LG’s SideKick Pedestal Washer. There are actually a bunch of LG washers and dryers to choose from. You can head to the Best Buy website to learn more about the rebates up to $500.

The best feature of the The LG Twin Wash and LG Sidekick is the ability to do two loads of wash at the same time. This is great for doing those small loads that just can’t wait or are last minute “oops I forgot” loads. I can think about the many times when we realized that Andrew’s karate uniform was not clean for class and we had to wash it quickly. With the LG Sidekick pedestal washer we could do a small efficient load of laundry just for that situation.

The other feature that we are excited about is the Wi-Fi Smart ThinQ technology which also works with Google Assistant. Being able to monitor the wash from the couch is great! We tend to do our washes during the evenings while we are watching TV. Often we forget to switch the laundry and also grab it from the basement. With the app letting us know that everything was ready we can quickly hop downstairs and get that laundry.

There are so many other great features that help you save money, do your laundry more efficiently and even diagnose any issues. Head to Best Buy and find out more.