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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: fatboy on January 23, 2016, 07:37:01 PM
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Because we all go right to DU when a crisis hits...
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 07:26 PM
Star Member bettyellen (29,642 posts)
Help! Is anyone here handy with electronic thermostat? Heatless tenants and I feel awful!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027557422
Awful as in I hope they don't sue or withhold rent or awful as in I need to relocate them my expense to a place that has heat?
Response to Fumesucker (Reply #2)
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 07:39 PM
Star Member bettyellen (29,642 posts)
8. they are hoping it is the batteries and buying more in the AM. such nice people! I feel awful!
Governor Christy is out of NJ but he is in communications with his staff and you are not helping your tenants.
Response to OffWithTheirHeads (Reply #9)
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 07:57 PM
Star Member bettyellen (29,642 posts)
12. The furnace is till functioning- probably for their hot water? And they are afraid to touch it...
so we are just trying to troubleshoot the stupid thermostat.
The thermostat is not stupid, it's DUmb. And so are you Betty Ellen.
Response to bettyellen (Original post)
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 07:38 PM
lumberjack_jeff (31,337 posts)
5. remove the thermostat from the wall (see "armchair programming")
clean the battery contacts and reinstall batteries
if still getting "BATT" display
verify that the new batteries are good
if still bad
replace thermostat. Do you have an old manual one in a junk drawer?
Wrong Jeff, the correct response is "Betty Ellen, you need to get a emergency call into the local union repair shop "STAT" to get the heat turned on. The tenants deserve heat not a step by step troubleshooting guide from you DUmmy.
Response to lumberjack_jeff (Reply #5)
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 07:55 PM
Star Member bettyellen (29,642 posts)
10. Nope, and unfortunately, I am 35 miles away, and not too handy. On a fair day it is all
but impossible to get a skilled person out there on a Sunday- and they have more than 20" of snow, and a subway shut down. Hoping some stores are open in the AM.
Am suggesting they check the battery contacts.
You need to get a union taxi driver to the tenants and relocate them and their 5 dogs and three cats and parrot to a place that has heat now. Right now. Or should we call you Betty Ellen Trump?
Response to LunaSea (Reply #7)
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 08:08 PM
Star Member Aerows (36,395 posts)
13. try cycling the power at the main breaker too
I second this advice.
Try getting a taxi to the home before I call the rent control board. And the rabies clinic. And News 4 New York.
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Star Member OffWithTheirHeads (10,252 posts)
9. Sorry, West coast guy here. Don't know enough about boilers to give and don't whant to give
You the wrong info. If you find that nothing works, pm me and I will tell you what might work. At least it works on all furnaces.
Smartest, bestest folk on the internet and cannot spell "want". Ain't a typo either.
bettyellen (29,643 posts)
15. I had them wipe the terminals and recheck it and it worked! Thanks MM, and ALL YOU DUers!!
First time the dummies ever offered advice that worked.
OffWithTheirHeads (10,252 posts)
17. What worked?
:rotf:
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bettyellen
My tenants are now heatless (in the storm) due to (it appears) the thermostat battery running out and taking too long to replace them... I feel horrible- a plumber was just there to reset it yesterday and I'm wondering if he screwed with it.
A plumber was there to reset the thermostat?
Weird people.
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I wonder if the battery is getting close to dying, and the "fix" will prove temporary. Or maybe the t'stat doesn't draw much current, and the contacts are tin plated. Without enough current, tin oxide will form, an insulator.
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Ah yes, the bettyellen primitive.
It's all very ancient history now, nearly forgotten, but eleven years ago, she was one of the leading acolytes of the not-yet-late red round one. He was hanging around with her, and a few other cooperating primitives, in upper New Jersey and New York City while poor stupid Beth alleged he was in the hospital at Johns Hopkins, anxiously awaiting an operation "freepers" were so cruelly obstructing.
I dunno what she was in it for, what she got out of it, but probably she was involved simply because it gave her an opportunity to lie and deceive, two favorite past-times of Democrats, liberals, and primitives.
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OMG, bettyellen - now THAT'S a blast from the past. These tenants, Hoboken or the Bronx?
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OMG, bettyellen - now THAT'S a blast from the past. These tenants, Hoboken or the Bronx?
comment 3081:
http://conservativecave.com/index.php?topic=81827.3075
Although one has to admit, aesthetic-wise, she's got all the other primitive femmes beat by ten miles or more.
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A plumber was there to reset the thermostat?
Weird people.
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Quite a few companies here do plumbing and heating repair.