Women and Thermostats

[d000hg]

If you lived in a hard water area, she'd be right!

Boiling will cause dissolved salts to precipitate, thus raising its boiling point. So, next boil is at a higher temperature. Did she leave you for someone with an O level in chemistry?

But won't the kettle be designed to turn off at a set TEMPERATURE, not when it detects boiling? I see the O-level and raise you an A grade at A-level...

[Bob Dalek]

But won't the kettle be designed to turn off at a set TEMPERATURE, not when it detects boiling? I see the O-level and raise you an A grade at A-level...

Actually, dissolved salts RAISE the bloody temperature! His girlie was wrong; he was right; I am a moron.

[MPwannadecentincome]

and something else they do too....

open the main door and the inside door of the lobby, thus letting out all of the heat from the house and freezing out the ground floor, so having the same effect on the heating as turning up the thermostat, but not around to benefit as they are not in the house!

[IR35 Avoider]

Being a bloke, I clearly understand the point about thermostats etc, however, answer me this:

Got in the car on the way home tonight...weather freezing, around zero degrees. Turn the temp on the car to about 22 degrees and hit the "auto" button on the climate control and guess what happened? Yep, fan goes to full speed and blasts freezing cold air into car for first few miles.

So are cars secretly women? Is that why mine is so tempromental once a month?

I think it's just yours. I'm fairly sure the fan on mine starts at low speed and speeds up as the engine warms up.

[Bagpuss]

and something else they do too....

open the main door and the inside door of the lobby, thus letting out all of the heat from the house and freezing out the ground floor, so having the same effect on the heating as turning up the thermostat, but not around to benefit as they are not in the house!

Lobby? Where do you live, in a palace?

[PerlOfWisdom]

I disagree Sir. As you know (), the air get's its temperature from blowing across the heat exchanger (radiator). This is designed to transfer heat from the hot coolant that flows through it to the air blown through it by the fan. Now, if you are blowing freezing cold air over freezing cold coolant, the logic is not hard to see that it's going to take you longer to heat that freezing cold coolant.

Yes, but having the fan high on uses more electricity, which puts extra load on the alternator, making the engine work harder, thereby warming up quicker.

[m__rfield]

Try explaining how TRVs and zones work and watch the meltdown.

[MPwannadecentincome]

Lobby? Where do you live, in a palace?

A rhetorical question I am sure - most of the houses (ranging from bungalows to 3 or 4 bed houses) round here have an outer door and an inner door - the space in between is called a lobby right?

There is a palace down the road but I could not afford it!

[minestrone]

A rhetorical question I am sure - most of the houses (ranging from bungalows to 3 or 4 bed houses) round here have an outer door and an inner door - the space in between is called a lobby right?

There is a palace down the road but I could not afford it!

That is what is called the vestibule.

[Cheshire Cat]

That is what is called the vestibule.

porch?