In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 30 Dec 2024 10:59:20 -0000 (UTC), Cindy
Post by Cindy HamiltonPost by mickyI did think of this, but I don't trust their thermostat or mine to
actually be the right temp. .If it's mine and I feel cold or hot, I turn
it up or down and don't worrry about the number.
I usually put on (or take off) a sweater. Isn't that what your mother
told you to do?
Cindy, I latched on to your question and ignored the question behind
your question , which i think is why do you care what the temperature
is. There are several reasons . One is that I always thought the house
was at 68 during the day , and now that I have this new thermometer it
says 73 all the time. Maybe I set the thermostat at 68 and I got 73
instead. .I doubt it but I would like to know.
Reason 2 is that a few nights ago it was 14° out , and i got out of
heater because 'cause I wasn't sure the furnace would take care of
things.I started the heater with the lowest setting and gradually turned
it up a tiny bit until everything was working all but it climbed to 83 .
And strangely I was not hot even at 83 nor was I called at 73 . I'd like
to know if those were real numbers or if perhaps it was 68 and 78 .
Reasons like that , so it's not just a matter of policy that i have at
least two reasons why i wanna know what this thermometer says is
accurate .
After a couple nights with the heater on all night and even during the
day I turned it off and was surprised that the house stayed at least
this room stayed at 73 all the time . I wanna know what the temperature
really is .
By the way, the heater is interesting in itself. I've had it for 45 or
50 years and it was 20 years old at least when I found it somewhere.
When I last used it in New York where the landlord Once in a while
didn't provide enough heat, it was plugged in to a single receptacle,
not a double like everybody else has and the rest of tha apartment had,
in the maid's room, where i lived in my 6 room apartment , and one night
or early one morning I was lucky enough to wake up and see the plug was
on fire. Because the receptacle was 45 years old and it was loose. Now
my current house is 45 years old but I don't think any of the
receptacles are loose yet, which means they make better receptacles than
they used to. My apartment then was in what had been a luxury building
and I'm sure they didn't economize on the receptacles yet it was loose
enough, hot enough to start a fire and the flames were an inch or two
high from this black rubber plug that was on this old heater . I pulled
out the cord and the flames went away . Then i replaced the plug with a
new nice one with its own springiness, that they don't sell anymore
because it's wide in one direction but too narrow in the other. But
everything else is original at least 60 years old . I love old stuff
---I also have the heater my mother bought when I was an infant 77 years
ago so that she could warm the bathroom before I got a bath. That was in
perfect condition until about 20 years ago , even the cloth cord. It was
underneath the the bathroom sink and so was a A cardboard cylinder of
toilet bowl cleaner , and even though nothing got wet the fumes of the
cleaner must have filled the space there and it corroded all the Chrome
parts on this heater . It still works i'm sure but it's no longer
beautiful like it was for the 1st 50 years . It's also bulkier and
heavier than the newew cheaper one but it's nice because it has a foot
switch so you can turn it on and off while standing up . I think it has
no thermostat . So you can't leave it alone . I had two other heaters an
old small one very simple , and one from the 1980s that was big and wide
and tall and Too bulky for what it did. . I must have given them away or
they would be under the sink with these two