Norman Door

When my husband and I first moved into our house, it was very confusing to figure out which light switch worked for which light. We figured it out and we would tell our houseguests that all they had to do is do the exact opposite of what made sense: If you think one light switch went to one light, pick the opposite switch. That worked. I had to think every time I wanted to turn on or off a light.

That was seven years ago.

The one thing we couldn't ever figure out or work around was our thermostat. It had pre-defined times set with pre-defined temperatures, and over the years (with the various black outs and power outages that we've had) the pre-defined times were nowhere near real-time. And almost all the settings were set at 72. Our home was a sauna, but we couldn't figure out how to re-set the thermostat timings. Luckily, the manual override was easy to use.


Right. The SET button in the middle would be the obvious choice, but we were wrong, and we couldn't figure it out. That's seven years of bad heating problems.

A few months ago, our carpenter decided that our light switches sucked so he re-did them. It was easy to rehabituate to the change and it's a relief that FINALLY the switch I automatically reach for has the desired effect.

It was at this point that we had a conversation about the thermostat and he offered to fix it, clueing me in on where the instructions were. Right. You have to remove the cover to find the instructions. Why didn't I think of that?? I guess I'm a newbie when it comes to these central heating units.


I finally found out where the instructions were! And they were complicated.


I finally got it done. They weren't easy to follow (the buttons didn't behave as they should), but I could figure it out from here. I just can't believe how long it took to actually find the instructions!