Thermostat battle
Like most people, our central heating is controlled by a thermostat. Pretty simple concept really, you set the temperature you want your house to be and if the temperature drops below that, the heating comes on until your house reaches that temperature, at which point the heating goes off.

So why oh why does my wife insist on turning the thermostat down when the weather gets hot? "I don't want the house to get too hot" she says. We have a constant battle where she keeps on turning it down and then I covertly turn it back up when I walk past.

I know that it is a minor thing but the complete lack of logic just really winds me up.

Ahhh, feel better now.
(Tom Jones's Mojo Hasn't had any since, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:04, 5 replies)

my wife turns it up
then opens the windows to 'get some fresh air in'. Fuck me, I am paying to heat the entire Earth up to 20 degrees.
(turtles head is touching cloth poked a dwarf on the forehead at, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:13, closed)

You think that's bad?
I used to share a house, and when the token slob thought it was too cold he would turn on the radiator in his room by walking downstairs to the thermostat and giving the dial a yank so that the boiler sprang into life. The rest of us would come home to find the house like a sauna and the thermostat set to 35 degrees.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:24, closed)

I had an idiot housemate
who couldn't actually understand the concept of adjusting the thermostat, it was up full when she wanted the heating on, which was all the time, I tried repeatedly to educate her but to no avail.

So I took it apart, took the little wheel off and moved it around a quarter turn. Worked a treat :)
(Reverend Samson Fapohunda B3tan, B3tan, B3tan, B3tan, Wed 7 May 2008, 11:32, closed)

Many women
don't understand the concept of thermostats. My boss and I were discussing this very phenomenon just the other day.

Sorry for sexism, but it's true.

(Female b3tards are of course excepted)
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Wed 7 May 2008, 12:17, closed)

What I don't understand is...
Why, when a few weeks ago the ambient temperature was about 12 degrees C, and my thermostat set to 15C, my house warmed up nicely, and then when the ambient temperature became 15C recently (and therefore the boiler didn't kick in) the house felt cold and I had to reset the thermostat to 18C to feel comfortable again!
(JohabMorelli is spenging merrily away, Wed 7 May 2008, 14:53, closed)