[casa rakkaleff] stupid, crappy thermostat

[leff]

This one is from the "there's always something" files.

See, we have this heater, see. It's a big, hulking, oil mother. It makes warm air come out of the vents, very warm air; it's what heaters do. All good stuff when it's freezing out.

We live in America and nothing can ever be simple; there's always a way to make complexity seem like an upsell. And so, we have this ridiculous thermostat that does almost everything. You program it to have a different target temp night and day, every day of the week. You can put it on hold in three different ways. I'm pretty sure there's a bread slicing attachment. There's just one thing they left out: the ability to consistently turn on the F!#@ing HEATER.

Stupid, crappy thermostat. I use the term "crappy" a lot, but I really mean it here. If you had a thousand monkeys throwing poop at a thousand bits of paper, you'd eventually have the blue prints for the Ritetemp 8030C Thermostat. It's a home depot brand, and it's been discontinued due to extreme crappiness; and for home depot that's saying something.

We need to get a replacement asap. I don't trust myself to install something like that, so even though the heater guy was out here last week we have to have him back; aslo asap. Even he said, btw, that ours was one of the w orst thermostats he'd seen (and he's seen a few).

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Posted By leff to casa rakkaleff at 11/08/2009 04:59:00 PM