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Post by Andrewghbk99 on Jul 9, 2018 18:05:51 GMT -5
Hello, we live in Southwest Florida. I don't know if that means anything lol, but our landlord for where we live is saying the thermostat needs to be 15 degrees lower than what it is outside or it wont function properly. Is this true? its 91 as of right now and my ac is set to 78 and it is still not turning on. The inside says 88 degrees at the moment. Its a new system inside and out. So I just cant believe that this AC wont function at a setting on 75. Anyother house or duplex I been in there ac works with it being this hot outside and the degree set at 75.Im thinking they just don't want to put out the money to send techs out here.
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Post by rKoNomad316 on Jul 9, 2018 18:53:19 GMT -5
Yeah that’s BS. It should turn on/off at what settings you want it at.
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Post by theMOESIAH on Jul 10, 2018 18:51:07 GMT -5
Hello, we live in Southwest Florida. I don't know if that means anything lol, but our landlord for where we live is saying the thermostat needs to be 15 degrees lower than what it is outside or it wont function properly. Is this true? its 91 as of right now and my ac is set to 78 and it is still not turning on. The inside says 88 degrees at the moment. Its a new system inside and out. So I just cant believe that this AC wont function at a setting on 75. Anyother house or duplex I been in there ac works with it being this hot outside and the degree set at 75.Im thinking they just don't want to put out the money to send techs out here. Unfortunately you're probably going to have to make some threats to motivate your landlord. |
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Post by jayrod2009 on Jul 10, 2018 20:56:40 GMT -5
Hello, we live in Southwest Florida. I don't know if that means anything lol, but our landlord for where we live is saying the thermostat needs to be 15 degrees lower than what it is outside or it wont function properly. Is this true? its 91 as of right now and my ac is set to 78 and it is still not turning on. The inside says 88 degrees at the moment. Its a new system inside and out. So I just cant believe that this AC wont function at a setting on 75. Anyother house or duplex I been in there ac works with it being this hot outside and the degree set at 75.Im thinking they just don't want to put out the money to send techs out here. Unfortunately you're probably going to have to make some threats to motivate your landlord. Florida has some awesome laws against Landlords like this. Are there pets or kids involved? |
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Post by Jack Specific on Jul 10, 2018 21:21:29 GMT -5
Hello, we live in Southwest Florida. I don't know if that means anything lol, but our landlord for where we live is saying the thermostat needs to be 15 degrees lower than what it is outside or it wont function properly. Is this true? its 91 as of right now and my ac is set to 78 and it is still not turning on. The inside says 88 degrees at the moment. Its a new system inside and out. So I just cant believe that this AC wont function at a setting on 75. Anyother house or duplex I been in there ac works with it being this hot outside and the degree set at 75.Im thinking they just don't want to put out the money to send techs out here. If this is regarding Central Air, that is not true unless something is faulty. If you are setting your thermostat at 78, normally when the thermostat temp hits the number above, in your case 79, it should click on. It should then shut off once it hits the number below, in your case 77. Then back on at 79, off at 77 and so on. I know that this can be adjusted, for example 2 degrees higher to click on, etc. I am not sure if it can be adjusted that high though. Sounds like a bad thermostat. Try lowering it until you hear it pop on (if it even does at all). If it does, note how many degrees less than what the temp actually is in the house and you can set it that way. Just keep lowering it until the actual temp is around 74 or where ever you are comfortable and leave it there. So for example if the thermostat is set to 60 and it clicks on but the real actual temp it clicked on is 74 in the house that is what the thermostat really is. Get what I mean? Another thing... if it is programmable, someone may have it set to programmable settings even when you manually change it, so it may just go back up to the programmable setting regardless. |
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Post by k5 on Jul 10, 2018 22:49:49 GMT -5
simply put, your landlord has capped you. does it say in your lease that you would have air conditioning? if so, install one of the window units into your windows. that’s what I had to do a few summers ago when I had some shady landlords.
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Post by theicwguy on Jul 12, 2018 14:09:55 GMT -5
For someone in the UK this title was a mystery to me.
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