With schools and offices closed due to the pandemic, the home was consistently full of people and this meant that the heating and cooling system was working overtime to heat, cool, and wipe out the air circulating around the house.
The younger teenagers consistently used to mess with the heat controller thinking it was a toy.
After breakfast 1 breezy night, our hubby and I decided to stand at the patio and watch the stars over a glass of wine. The teenagers had an hour of playtime before they had to go to bed so they carried on playing as all of us sat outside talking. After all of us put the teenagers to bed, the smoke detector’s alarm tore through the air and the cause was a burning dial thermostat that had been set to maximum then malfunctioned and started burning, melting into the wall. All of us switched off the entire electric heating system leaving only the fireplace on for the night, then for air purification, the indoor air cleaning system had to stay on throughout the night to help with indoor comfort. When the cooling workman arrived in the day, he first did an a/c care system and also worked on a/c repair as he checked on the air conditioning install to ensure all was good. The cooling representative who usually fitted commercial s explained the boiler upgrade had been done shoddily causing the incident with the regulator. He also recommended all of us purchase a quality gas gas furnace from the local heating supplier in order to boost temperatures in the house. It was a good thing all of us noticed the burning regulator when all of us did, otherwise, all of us would have all been burned in our sleep. All of us replaced it with a wireless 1 and felt much more relaxed.