Because your thermostat plays a critical role in keeping your San Angelo, TX home comfortable, you need to use it properly. In part, that means avoiding certain mistakes or bad habits. Here are three things that you should never do with your thermostat.
1. Cranking Up the Temperature
It’s completely natural for anyone who has just come in from the cold to want to get warm as quickly as possible. However, you should resist the inclination to crank up the temperature on your thermostat.
Your thermostat cannot control how quickly your HVAC system heats your home. It merely determines the final temperature that your home will reach after a given interval of time. Thus, when you push up the settings on your thermostat, you’ll only end up wasting energy and making your home uncomfortably hot.
By forcing your HVAC system to expend more energy, you’ll also subject it to unnecessary wear and tear. If you’re cold, the best thing to do is to set your thermostat to a comfortable temperature and have patience.
2. Never Changing the Temperature
Never changing your temperature settings may prove to be as harmful as arbitrarily fiddling with them. Maintaining consistently high temperatures, even when you’re not home, will waste energy and overwork your system. Eventually, this may force you to prematurely replace it.
If you won’t be home all day long, you likely won’t need your heating system to maintain the same temperature. Instead, program your thermostat to allow lower temperatures when you’re not home and higher ones when you’re there.
3. Turning the Thermostat On and Off
In a misguided bid to save energy, you may decide to turn your thermostat on when you need it and off when you don’t. Doing so may damage your HVAC system, raise your heating bills and ruin your indoor air quality.. It’s recommended to keep your temperature relatively close to the same temperature year-round.
We can help you keep your San Angelo, TX home warm throughout the winter. Call Bowles Heating and Cooling, and ask for our heating services today.
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