Most if not all businesses were closed down for a couple days, including mine, so I figured I would take a good look at the instructions for the programmable thermostat that I had left in a closet somewhere and try and figure out how the whole thing worked before I potentially lost power during the hurricane
For the longest time, I put off taking a look at my programmable thermostat and trying to figure out how to program it! Because of that, it instead functioned as a regular thermostat for quite some time. As such, I would manually adjust the temperature whenever I felt the need. In the mornings, before I left for work in the summer, I would have to adjust the temperature such that the air conditioning would barely be used at all so that I wouldn’t be wasting money on cooling a house that no one was occupying. Then, I would get home to a rather warm house and manually change the thermostat back up to a temperature that I found comfortable. It was much the same story for the winter. I would essentially turn off the heat while I wasn’t home and return to a very chilly house and turn the thermostat back up. I would also adjust the temperature in the evenings to make things generally cooler, because I love sleeping in cool temperatures. Then, one day recently, I got stuck at home because of an approaching hurricane. Most if not all businesses were closed down for a couple days, including mine, so I figured I would take a good look at the instructions for the programmable thermostat that I had left in a closet somewhere and try and figure out how the whole thing worked before I potentially lost power during the hurricane. Well, we never lost power during the hurricane, but I did find the time to figure the programmable thermostat out, and I haven’t looked back since. Now the thermostat automatically adjusts itself according to the schedule I have set, so I never come back home to an uncomfortable house anymore!