I’ve been happily wed to my husband for the past three years now, and I still love the man as much as I did on our wedding day – if not more. That being said, my husband can be a clutz at times, and his clumsiness has brought embarrassment to us on more than one occasion. I still remember one particular instance, where my graceful husband managed to fall on his way out of the bathroom. He stumbled across ten feet of space before slamming head-first into the wall. Thankfully he didn’t damage the wall much, because the impact was broken by our thermostat! Somehow, my husband’s thick skull managed to smash the thermostat into itself, which subsequently caused the home’s HVAC system to shut down. I could only laugh to hide my embarrassment, as my husband had to go to the hardware store and buy a replacement thermostat with a massive bruise on his forehead. It took him over an hour to find a replacement thermostat, and in that time our house warmed up quickly in the summer heat! He finally came back home with a different temperature control device, which he boasted was capable of being programmed and synced with our smartphones. While that did sound pretty neat and convenient for us, I wanted to know why he didn’t just buy a new version of the unit we already had. Unfortunately, the thermostat we had was already obsolete. We bought it only three years ago! In the end, the new smart thermostat was a huge hit – but not as much of a hit as the one that my husband’s pride had to take.
The different types of thermostats