Where the hell is my thermostat?

[RoJoHen]

I am not convinced that my new apartment has a thermostat. It has heaters along the floor, but I see no way of controlling them. It's fine for now, but it's bound to get mighty cold around here very soon.

 

[Supreme Admiral]

I am not convinced that my new apartment has a thermostat. It has heaters along the floor, but I see no way of controlling them. It's fine for now, but it's bound to get mighty cold around here very soon.

Have you ask your lordland to do something about it?

 

[Daneel]

I know where the thermostat in my apartment is, but I'm not convinced it actually does anything. I think it's just for show. I wish I could crank it up in the winter months, though -- I'm facing the north, and when the winds are blowing (as they are today) and it gets below zero, it can get fairly nippy in here.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Are your heaters controlled centrally? Find your boiler (if it is a gas boiler) and it might have an instruction manual or description of the thermostat, including where it might be located.

 

[Brent]

What kind of heating is it? Baseboard? Is the Circuit breaker switches on for it?

 

[RoJoHen]

It's baseboard heating, the same as my old apartment...only that apartment had a very obvious thermostat right on the wall.

 

[nevermore]

Maybe they're individually controlled on the units themselves?

 

[RoJoHen]

It's possible that the whole building just has the same heating. It was inexplicably warm in here the first few days I lived here. I didn't realize I was living in the dorms again...

 

[Daneel]

^^^^^
I think that's the case in my building. The heat automatically came on a couple of weeks ago, and not a moment too soon. Still don't know why there's a thermostat on the wall, though...

 

[JustKate]

Do you pay (or will you pay, when it comes due) a heat bill? If so, there simply has to be a thermostat somewhere. How can they bill you if there's no way to tell how much power you use?

If heat's included...well, maybe there isn't a thermostat. I've never heard of that, except in cases where an apartment has been carved out of a private house, but I haven't heard of everything.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Do you pay (or will you pay, when it comes due) a heat bill? If so, there simply has to be a thermostat somewhere. How can they bill you if there's no way to tell how much power you use?

A thermostat wouldn't give you that information. An electricity meter would, though.

 

[JustKate]

I know, but I still say there has to be a thermostat if you're being billed for heat. You have to be able to control how much heat you use if you're expected to pay for it.

 

[nevermore]

It's possible that the whole building just has the same heating. It was inexplicably warm in here the first few days I lived here. I didn't realize I was living in the dorms again...

Is heat included in your rent? If so, then yes, you get what they give you. If no, then there must be a way for you to control it.

 

[ed629]

It's possible that the whole building just has the same heating. It was inexplicably warm in here the first few days I lived here. I didn't realize I was living in the dorms again...

Is heat included in your rent? If so, then yes, you get what they give you. If no, then there must be a way for you to control it.

That's how it was in an apartment I had in NY, either so hot I wore short and a t-shirt, or so cold I needed to wear sweat shirts, long warm pants and a hat... nothing in between.

 

[RoJoHen]

It's possible that the whole building just has the same heating. It was inexplicably warm in here the first few days I lived here. I didn't realize I was living in the dorms again...

Is heat included in your rent? If so, then yes, you get what they give you. If no, then there must be a way for you to control it.

I am determined to find it. There is a bizarre un-labeled knob that may hold some answers...

 

[the 4th hanson bro]

I'll bet there's a greater than zero chance that your landlord or apartment manager can help you out.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

It's possible that the whole building just has the same heating. It was inexplicably warm in here the first few days I lived here. I didn't realize I was living in the dorms again...

Is heat included in your rent? If so, then yes, you get what they give you. If no, then there must be a way for you to control it.

I am determined to find it. There is a bizarre un-labeled knob that may hold some answers...

Noooo!

 

[Joshua Howard]

^ That un-labeled knob may initiate your ship's self-destruct sequence.

Seriously though, I've heard about placebo thermostats that get placed in offices, etc. and do absolutely nothing, other than appease those in the room by tricking them.

Most baseboard outlets have a heat control switch/knob on them, I think. In any case, there's always the option of investing in a plug-in electric unit too, if you need more heat the central source provides.

 

[RoJoHen]

I'll bet there's a greater than zero chance that your landlord or apartment manager can help you out.

But wouldn't it be so much more satisfying if I figured it out myself?



The knob appears to do nothing.

 

[trampledamage]

The knob appears to do nothing.

Must not quote out of context... must not quote out of context...


(NOTE: this might only be funny to British people )