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Bicoastal

(12,645 posts) Mon Dec 24, 2012, 04:53 PM Dec 2012

Help with my thermostat! [View all]

As someone who grew up in LA but now lives in NYC, I've secretly never been able to deal with these things, but I've been too embarrassed to ask how they work.

My current apartment has a thermostat with only one moving part--a moving dial between 60 and 90. So here's my one and only question: do I move the dial higher (towards 90) or lower (towards 60) to make the apartment warmer?

(Someone has to re-explain this to me every year)

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Help with my thermostat! [View all] Bicoastal Dec 2012 OP

Set it at the temp you want. Putting it at a higher temp causes the heating device to turn on. Same Scruffy Rumbler Dec 2012 #1

Got it. Classic left-brained individual over here. Bicoastal Dec 2012 #4

If it is a dial, turn it clockwise. If it slides up and down, slide it up. A Simple Game Dec 2012 #2

The temperature you select is the room temperature the thermostat will roughly try to maintain... PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #3

That's why I was so glad Turbineguy Dec 2012 #5

Neither Major Nikon Dec 2012 #6

"hold a lighter under it when you want it to get cooler." PoliticAverse Dec 2012 #7

You do have to remember to douse the wall when it catches on fire Major Nikon Dec 2012 #10

Beat me to it... cbrer Dec 2012 #11

One other thing to know - truedelphi Dec 2012 #8

Up and down, left and right do not matter. Festivito Dec 2012 #9