http://am.paulukonisstudio.com/archives/634 Combining simplicity, frugality, and environmentalism Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:22:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://am.paulukonisstudio.com/archives/634#comment-60002 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:40:10 +0000 http://am.paulukonisstudio.com/archives/634#comment-60002 [...] Speaking of which: Last winter, I learned we had the wrong thermostat–we have a 2-stage furnace but had a 1-stage thermostat. I finally got around to buying a new thermostat this past month. I ordered it the day before we had the heating folks come in for the annual furnace checkup. Eric mentioned it to him, thankfully. He looked at things and said that we’d need two wires run up to the thermostat. One for the dual stage part and one so that the battery was backup instead of constant (not necessary, but nice and cheaper probably). We *could* do that ourselves, except that’s totally not in our abilities. [...] […] Speaking of which: Last winter, I learned we had the wrong thermostat–we have a 2-stage furnace but had a 1-stage thermostat. I finally got around to buying a new thermostat this past month. I ordered it the day before we had the heating folks come in for the annual furnace checkup. Eric mentioned it to him, thankfully. He looked at things and said that we’d need two wires run up to the thermostat. One for the dual stage part and one so that the battery was backup instead of constant (not necessary, but nice and cheaper probably). We *could* do that ourselves, except that’s totally not in our abilities. […]

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