Our thermostat has an emergency heat setting

At first, I was afraid that I did something wrong, but after looking it up, I wasn’t worried anymore.

Our thermostat has an emergency heat setting, but I had no idea what that meant. I have lived in this house for a long time, and we have always had this thermostat. I don’t really think about our thermostat very often because during the summer and winter, you only really need to set the thermostat once and leave it for the entire season. However, during the spring and fall, you might have to adjust the thermostat between heat and cooling during the morning and the evening. Every time that I had to adjust the settings, I saw an option for the heat that was labeled emergency heat. I saw it quite a bit, but I honestly didn’t think about the setting very often, and I didn’t really care. One day, I did get curious about the emergency heat setting, so I decided to turn it on and see what would happen. I waited for hours, but I noticed that the temperatures in the house were getting colder, and I realized that the emergency heat setting was doing nothing in our house. At first, I was afraid that I did something wrong, but after looking it up, I wasn’t worried anymore. Apparently, the emergency heat setting works if you have a backup heating system just in case your furnace or boiler stops working. These heating systems are usually expensive to use, but they can be effective for emergencies. However, our house does not have a backup heating system, which is why it didn’t work when I adjusted the thermostat. I guess that you learn something new every day.

 

 

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