Curiosity #1 House is hot.

[micky]

Curiosity #1

I have oil heat with forced air. After I retired my sleeping schedule became unscheduled, erratic, and so I stopped using the setbacks and the winter temperature is set for the same thing 24/7 all winter long. Circulation fan is single speed with 3 choices. I have it set to the slowest speed.

Most of the air ducts have furniture over or in front of them. Only the bathrooms have a clear shot, and even if the house is the right temperature in cold weather, it feels good to have warm air blowing on my legs.

This morning I noticed, maybe, that the air was warmer than usual, or it was blowing harder. Didn't sleep well, lay down on my back almolst sitting up and noticed my right shoulder was getting more warm air than usual. Not so much a maybe but still hard to believe. Did the fan change speeeds/

Woke up at 2PM. So hottttt. Did the thermostat break? I have put a switch in the upstairs escucheon for the laundry chute, so I can turn off the furnace/ac without going downstairs. Still too hot. 85 or more.

Open the door downstairm part way for 90 minutes. Okay downstairs, still too hot upstairs.

What happened? Thermostat broken? Fan changed speed on its own (normally takes changing which wire connects to the AC)?

One more factoid. The cold water pipe to the powder room must go too close to the furnace, because its water is hot for 2 or 3 seconds when I first turn it on. Today, it was so hot it stung.

[hubops]

Cold draft near the thermostat ? .. perhaps a window ajar or a giant rat chewed a big hole in the wall .. John T.

[micky]

No.

:.. perhaps a window ajar

No.

Now I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight!

All of these more likely.

I had a period of time when the relay on the control panel didn't close and I found by taking the plastic cap off it it, and resting a

1"x1/2"x30" piece of wood on the relay, near the armiture pivot, it worked fine, for months, until I found a replacment control pane.

Maybe this is the oppposite problem.

I just closed the upstairs window after 2 hours. It's fine here now but I don't feel like doing the debugging yyou suggest and if it gets cold in the middle of the night, I'm not going to want to then either.

[Dean Hoffman]

Only old people have things like sleeping bags, quilts, blankets, and feather beds.

[micky]

Well, I turned off the heat at around 2;30 Saturday, opened the front door for an hour and a second floor window for an hour or more, and it's

28 hours later and I still haven't turned the heat back on at all, and it's warm enough upstairs to sit without my shirt. If this keeps up, I'll never need heat again.

The remote switch I put in disconnects the power wire to the thermostat, so I guess that means the control panel relay is not stuck. I think It means the thermostat is bad, and I have a spare thermostat somewhere. But I may not need it because I may never need heat again .

[Jim Joyce]

You'll need heat again when you get through menopause. Until then, keep your shirt off and enjoy the ride.

[micky]

I turned the heat on about 11PM for an hour. Not sure if it actally went on, but probably. Turned it off at midnight.

Next night I turned it on at 9 and by 2AM it hadn't gotten noticeably too hot, and I forgot to turn it off before sleep. Seems okay today, Tuesday.

I was miserable the afternoon I woke up and it was too hot. Hope it doesn't happen again.

[trader_4]

You're definitely a Democrat.