• noride@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Fwiw, most modern thermostats have an emergency failsafe temp setting that will always turn the heater on when reached, even if inadvertently set lower by mistake. Saved my bacon in a rental once.

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      1 year ago

      As a side note, if you for some reason turn off the central heating entirely and just use space heaters, then the failsafe will do no good.

      Most central heating solutions waste some energy when idling, so one might be tempted to turn them off. Please be careful when doing this.

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      1 year ago

      This was a solid case of “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” the thermostat and heating system in question was from the 60’s or 70’s and had served us with no issues for as long as we had been there. Hindsight 20/20 and all that jazz.