Check your thermostat first

If you find that you are having trouble in your house with your heating and cooling system, then it’s a good idea to always check your thermostat first before you call a professional. A lot of people do not understand how important their thermostat is to their heating and cooling system. The thermostat unit in your home is basically the brains behind your heating and cooling system. Without a well functioning brain, the rest of the body of your HVAC system is not going to work correctly. Some people have thermostats that are wired into their home’s electrical system and they run that way. Other people have battery operated thermostats. That’s what we have in my house and most of the time it works really well. However, my digital programmable thermostat is an older model and it does not have an alert on it that tells me when the battery needs to be changed. That has been a problem for me in the past because sometimes I don’t remember to change the battery on a regular basis. If the battery starts to go dead, then it affects the heating and cooling system in my house. Sometimes the temperature goes way up or way down and I start thinking that there is something wrong with my heating and cooling system. Last winter, it got really cold in my house and I thought that there was something wrong with my furnace. It turned out that it was only the fact that I needed to put a new battery in my thermostat unit.
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