What is it with women and thermostats?
I have had over a decade long battle now trying to explain the logic that if the heating is off, then you switch it on, the house will not warm up any faster if you go around increasing the thermometer settings to their max setting of 30C. You just end up too hot.
Do they think that if the boiler knows you are really cold it feels guilty and digs deep?
I suspect they think that having the house over-temperature for a while will bring *them* up to temperature more quickly. Like, if you were bringing a pan of water to the boil it would *work* if the pan was kept at 100 degrees, but it would work *quicker* if the pan was hotter than that. Kind of.
I used to know someone of the male variety who apparently didn't understand his car heater/aircon thermostat. When I got into the car I could see that he had it set to either HI or LO. When he got too hot or too cold he would swing it all the way through the temperature range to the other end of the scale.
My wife cannot understand that putting the electric blanket on at least an hour before required does not make the bed any warmer than if it is on for say 10 minutes, she cannot grasp that it just turns on and off when it reaches a certain heat.
Dont get me started on pre heated ovens and women.
Our house is completely TRV. I have managed to educate SWMBO that it is not a good idea to tinker with the TRVs by more than a degree or so rotation
I nave not won the next battle. Toheat a small amount of milk, a small pan is correctly chosen but then placed on the largest gas burner with the flames licking up the sides of the pan -'but the lrger burner must heat it up quicker!' masy be but with how much wated heat?
A kitchen refurb is planned and I have an eye on replcing the gas hob with an induction hob.
Malcolm
No No NO! When she burns something on it thats going to be your fault and of course after a month she will decide she prefers gas!
That is the real question.
Name one matriarchally dominated civilisation that has lasted long enough to leave a trace.
You can take the woman out of the home, but you cant take the home out of the woman.
It could be perfectly rational behaviour when you bear in mind there are a lot of thick men out there (not here of course)
Ours does.
When it gets close to set temperature it reduces the burn cycle (it's oil, can't modulate) to try to get it to hit a steady temperature. Seems to do it quite well. Shame the thermostat is on an uninsulated external wall - must get around to moving it!
Andy
I got in the car the other day (lunchtime), turned the key in the ignition and immediately dived into the brace position.
It was OK though, a jet plane wasn't crash landing on the roof, the missus had used the car in the morning, and had shoved the heater temp up to it's max, and god love it, the car was giving it its best shot.
They view them as a rotary on/off device.
I wrote once many years ago that car makers could save a fortune if they stopped fitting expensive HVAC controls and just painted buttons and dials onto the dash while setting the system to just pour hot/cold air (depending on season) at the windscreen at fill tilt. The average owner doesn't seem to care or want to understand how it works so just stabs randomly at buttons anyway, so there'd be no net loss.
Mike Barnes posted
That is precisely what my wife does. She even does it when I'm driving, so you end up sitting in a 30degC greenhouse trying to stay awake at the wheel.
In the stores at work: 'stat being replaced with centrally controlled system. Leccies worried about the female workers complaining about the temperature all the while. I told them to leave the 'stat there and say nowt. Worked well - 'stat was turned up and down and the women were happy.
Ha! What is a waste of time are these heater controls that you can set by temperature. Sounds nice and modern and space age, but what actually happens is that if I have the temperature set to say 25, and I want it at 23 because I'm just a tad warm, it immediately pours out ice-cold air in an attempt to get the temperature to 23 as fast as possible.
I don't want that; I want it to put out air at 23 so that the temperature slowly moves down. Otherwise I get cold, and crank the temp up to 27 in order to get warm again. Cue air at 1000C.
I could do that at home. Wireless 'stat' somewhere hidden. Non-functional one on the wall. Yes!
It's not perfect, but my car has 'mono' and 'stereo' settings. So I can keep the air my side at a different temperature.
Women are endothermic, particularly nocturnally. That is the only reason men exist.
Cheers
I must be fortunate then that mine is (still) going though 'the change' and rarely wants anywhere to be any hotter than I do. ;-)
We don't have central heating (in this solid 9" brick walled, EOT house) and haven't had any heating (at all) on in the bedroom for a couple of years now.
The only problem I have on the colder days is getting warm quick enough once we first get into bed (by cuddling) before 'she' overheats! I know there are others ways but sometimes *I'm* tired ...
Cheers, T i m
Simple rule: driver is in charge, passengers may ask for stuff.
Non compliance means they don't get driven... At the end of the day, me staying awake and alert overrides anybody else's rights to hot/cold/radio/windows.
In practise it works out fine.
Naah. I've asked my wife about this, and she's convinced that turning the 'stat up makes the house warm up faster.
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