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Hi - newbie here, and a very grumpy old lady atm. Being a middle-aged woman living in social housing, I am treated by a lot of tradespeople as if I have lost the few brain cells I ever had, but I'm beginning to think I'm losing touch with reality.
I got my Housing Association to come and look at my CH thermostat. Years ago an engineer just fiddled with it, and now - if it clicks on at 10C the radiators are blazing away like it's polar out there! The rads do have individual controls, but these are not temp sensitive, and I really don't think I should have to spend my "declining" years rushing round the house continually turning them up or down.
However - the guy who came today told me that the temp on the thermostat basically bears no relationship to the ambient temperature - he didn't use the term ambient, but that's what he meant. He basically said that you just set it to a comfortable temperature. Err... so what if, unknown to me, I was suffering from some rare disease that meant I felt freezing at 20C - in that case "comfortable" would be around 30C and i would go bankrupt paying the gas bill.
He told me to get a thermometer - I've tried, they seem rarer than hens' teeth - but - can someone who knows what they're talking about explain - why have a thermostat if it's lying to me? And if it isn't temperature sensitive, why does the heating come on (if the timer is set to on) when I turn it up and off when I turn it down? Am I mad, or what?
Thanks for any advice that might make me a less grumpy old lady - alas, nothing will make me a young one!
Tereza
I got my Housing Association to come and look at my CH thermostat. Years ago an engineer just fiddled with it, and now - if it clicks on at 10C the radiators are blazing away like it's polar out there! The rads do have individual controls, but these are not temp sensitive, and I really don't think I should have to spend my "declining" years rushing round the house continually turning them up or down.
However - the guy who came today told me that the temp on the thermostat basically bears no relationship to the ambient temperature - he didn't use the term ambient, but that's what he meant. He basically said that you just set it to a comfortable temperature. Err... so what if, unknown to me, I was suffering from some rare disease that meant I felt freezing at 20C - in that case "comfortable" would be around 30C and i would go bankrupt paying the gas bill.
He told me to get a thermometer - I've tried, they seem rarer than hens' teeth - but - can someone who knows what they're talking about explain - why have a thermostat if it's lying to me? And if it isn't temperature sensitive, why does the heating come on (if the timer is set to on) when I turn it up and off when I turn it down? Am I mad, or what?
Thanks for any advice that might make me a less grumpy old lady - alas, nothing will make me a young one!
Tereza