Saturday, December 13, 2008

Same Thermostat Settings for All Corridors?

A Market Street at Town Center Condominium unit owner suggested that different thermostat settings might be appropriate for different corridors. I don’t see why that should be so.

Why wouldn’t the minimum acceptable temperature be the same regardless of which corridor it is? If 72 degrees Fahrenheit is the lowest acceptable temperature for Terrace-level (UL) corridors, why wouldn’t 72 also be the lowest acceptable temperature for 1st-floor corridors?

And why wouldn’t the maximum acceptable temperature be the same regardless of which corridor it is? If 74 were the highest acceptable temperature for 3rd-floor corridors, why wouldn’t 74 also be the highest acceptable temperature for Terrace-level corridors? (This question is moot when the weather is too cold to run air conditioning due to risk of damaging the air conditioning equipment.)

It appears there are 18 thermostats that control our corridor temperatures--four in each of the upper four corridors and two in the Terrace-level corridor. In cold months such as December and January, why shouldn’t all 18 of those thermostats be set in the “Heat” mode at a rather low temperature such as, say, 66? If they were set that way, heating would occur only in corridor zones in which the actual temperature fell below 66. A thermostat set to 66 in the “Heat” mode won’t turn on the heat if the corridor happens to be at an actual temperature of, say, 75. If unit owner consensus is that 66 is too low for the minimum, I am fine with a higher minimum. But I haven’t seen any argument that makes me fine with different minimums for different corridors.

If there are good reasons for different minimum temperatures in different corridors, I would like to hear them. How about emailing me those reasons at rasmussen305@gmail.com or/and posting those reasons in my forum at the following link?

http://mstcuoa.proboards59.com/

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