Weekend Off = Weekend Chores

[Arks]

Time well spent! Smart solutions!! We have a really fancy programmable thermostat in our second house (unfortunately each room didn't have their own) and we had to lock it out after someone messed with the programming and actually turned the heat off. Another guest called us at 2 am or something to tell us it was cold over there. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!.

We have a really fancy programmable thermostat in our second house...

I was careful to specify to the installer that I wanted the simplest thermostats possible. Red up arrow for warmer, blue down arrow for colder, nothing more. But if you open the little drop down door on the front cover, there are the Auto/On and Cool/Off/Heat/Emerg. buttons they can play with. But now I've fixed their little red wagons!
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We stayed at a place that had little symbols on the thermostat - snowflake for cold and sun for hot. Do you know how hard it is to read those teeny pictograms?
We gave up.
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We stayed at a place that had little symbols on the thermostat - snowflake for cold and sun for hot. Do you know how hard it is to read those teeny pictograms?
We gave up.

Yes. For homeowners they can be small because you only have to read them one or two days and you have it for life. But for lodging guests only there a day or two, you need bigger notices for them to find them in the first place, and to find them each time they need to make a change. That's why the red up arrow-shaped button and blue down arrow-shaped button on mine are so great. Big, easy to see buttons.

 

[Samster]

Time well spent! Smart solutions!! We have a really fancy programmable thermostat in our second house (unfortunately each room didn't have their own) and we had to lock it out after someone messed with the programming and actually turned the heat off. Another guest called us at 2 am or something to tell us it was cold over there. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr!.

We have a really fancy programmable thermostat in our second house...

I was careful to specify to the installer that I wanted the simplest thermostats possible. Red up arrow for warmer, blue down arrow for colder, nothing more. But if you open the little drop down door on the front cover, there are the Auto/On and Cool/Off/Heat/Emerg. buttons they can play with. But now I've fixed their little red wagons!
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You're smarter than my dh.
That fancy thermostat is giving him fits (even with the elaborate instructions that he recently found online.) Our HVAC installer that sold it to us couldn't remember how the dang thing worked when he was here this week to check our units out for cold weather. (Cold weather? When? hahaha...)