Don't forget to change your air filter regularly! It kept getting colder and colder in my house this fall, until I ventured to my basement and heard the heating element shutting off because it was overheating due to a clogged air filter. I replaced it and with 35 minutes it went from 63°F to my comfy setting of 72°F.
But yes, these things will definitely block heat as well. Lol.
Edit: Guys, yes I know you should change them regularly, however like most people, I'm not consistently worried or thinking about my furnace filters. So maybe 8 months passed by on filters rated for 3 months.
Edit again: Yes, I know how to set reminders but I'm human and dismissed the several I set.... and then life happened, ya know?
Reminds me of a fun story. It was always freezing cold in our office at a company I used to work for. It has like a centralized thermostat with like some thermometer on the wall in certain areas that reported back to the central control thermostat. Manager kept saying it was set to 72 but it was always cold. Finally they sent an AC technician to look at it. Turned out one of our developers had recently converted to a standing desk and the heat exhaust on his computer was blowing right on the sensor continuously so it always thought it was burning up in our office. I still remember the technician going, "Glad I got my high school diploma so I could figure out this mystery in a building full of engineers."
MojoJojoZ on January 18th, 2020 at 14:05 UTC »
Same problem except mine are full of pets! Every time the heat comes on they sit their fat arses on the vents.
ETA real time evidence:
https://imgur.com/gallery/SXozX9v
LavaScotchGlass on January 18th, 2020 at 15:21 UTC »
Don't forget to change your air filter regularly! It kept getting colder and colder in my house this fall, until I ventured to my basement and heard the heating element shutting off because it was overheating due to a clogged air filter. I replaced it and with 35 minutes it went from 63°F to my comfy setting of 72°F.
But yes, these things will definitely block heat as well. Lol.
Edit: Guys, yes I know you should change them regularly, however like most people, I'm not consistently worried or thinking about my furnace filters. So maybe 8 months passed by on filters rated for 3 months.
Edit again: Yes, I know how to set reminders but I'm human and dismissed the several I set.... and then life happened, ya know?
TheLastModerate on January 18th, 2020 at 17:07 UTC »
Reminds me of a fun story. It was always freezing cold in our office at a company I used to work for. It has like a centralized thermostat with like some thermometer on the wall in certain areas that reported back to the central control thermostat. Manager kept saying it was set to 72 but it was always cold. Finally they sent an AC technician to look at it. Turned out one of our developers had recently converted to a standing desk and the heat exhaust on his computer was blowing right on the sensor continuously so it always thought it was burning up in our office. I still remember the technician going, "Glad I got my high school diploma so I could figure out this mystery in a building full of engineers."