I was wondering why the house was so cold this year, I looked at the thermostat and it read 22.5C (72.5F), the precise temp I left it at.
But when I looked at a random thermometer we had lying around the house it was at 15C (59F),
I went to the thermostat and touched it, it was warm. Opened it up and felt warm air blowing out of the hole the wires were coming from. Upon investigation, the warm air rising from the furnace closet was rising through the structure of the house and blowing through the hole warming up the sensor.
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
TheChowderOfClams on January 18th, 2020 at 16:56 UTC »
I was wondering why the house was so cold this year, I looked at the thermostat and it read 22.5C (72.5F), the precise temp I left it at.
But when I looked at a random thermometer we had lying around the house it was at 15C (59F),
I went to the thermostat and touched it, it was warm. Opened it up and felt warm air blowing out of the hole the wires were coming from. Upon investigation, the warm air rising from the furnace closet was rising through the structure of the house and blowing through the hole warming up the sensor.
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."