Before You Switch Your Thermostat to Heat This Fall, Do This (Or Pay for It All Winter)

🔧 Everything I learned fixing HVAC for 25 years, in one plain-English book. 📘 THE HVAC SURVIVAL GUIDE - get it here: https://raydutton.com That Auto setting on your thermostat, the one you never think about, can make your furnace and your air conditioner fight each other every time a day starts cold and warms up by afternoon. That is habit number one, and it is not even the worst of the five. I did this work for twenty-five years, for the same companies that mail out the repair quote, so I have watched where these little thermostat habits end up. In this video I walk you through all five: the Auto setting with the two numbers jammed together, cranking the heat to warm up faster (it cannot), the hole in the wall behind your thermostat, the hidden cycles-per-hour setting, and the one that gets a perfectly good furnace condemned. Four of the five fixes cost you nothing. The other one is about two dollars of plumber's putty. I will also give you the honest other side, because sometimes the furnace really is finished, and the one rule to follow before you sign anything for a new one. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Auto setting that makes your furnace and AC fight 0:37 1. Auto mode with the heat and cool numbers too close 2:29 The free fix: a 4 to 5 degree dead zone 3:07 2. Cranking the heat to warm up faster 5:12 3. The hole in the wall behind your thermostat 7:26 4. The hidden cycles-per-hour setting 9:30 5. The bad thermostat spot that gets a good furnace condemned 11:36 When the furnace really is finished (the second-opinion rule) 12:06 Your weekend checklist Tell me down in the comments what state you are in and how old your furnace is. I read every single one, and it tells me what you need to hear next. I'm Ray Dutton. Keep your cool, and I'll see you in the next one. #thermostat #furnace #hvac #heating #homemaintenance #hvactips #savemoney #heatingbill