My 55-year old crackerbox has a natural gas-powered, wall-mounted heater. It works fine, but has no thermostat. It also looks a helluva lot better than the new units I've seen in the stores.
I'd love to add a thermostat, but realize that would require replacing the valve assembly on the heater, and that might not be a reasonable thing to try to fit up.
Here are the options I see:
- Buy a thermostat and valve assembly, and endure the work of installing it all and getting it working. (of course, if I did manage it, the heater would then go bad, and I'd have to get a new one anyway!).
- Buy a new wall heater and pull the valve and thermostat, and try to fit them up to the old unit, and store the rest of the new one for future use.
- Buy and install a new one, and try to get the shrouds from the old one to fit on the new one.
Anybody have other ideas, comments?