The thermostat batteries were backwards the other day when I went to check and see what the problem was.
Something wasn’t right with the HVAC system and I had no idea what was going on.
I had noticed that the low battery indicator had been flashing on the digital programmable thermostat for a few days so I told my husband that he needed to fix it. All he had to do was change the batteries so I got out four batteries from the battery box that we keep in the kitchen. I left the thermostat batteries out on the kitchen counter as a reminder for him to change the thermostat batteries. He did it, but somehow he ended up putting them into the thermostat the wrong way. Neither one of us noticed that he put them in the wrong way until I noticed that the heating system wasn’t heating the house the way that it was supposed to. The weather is still really cold outside here and so we have to keep the furnace running nearly all the time. I had the temperature turned up on the thermostat but the house still wasn’t heating up the way that I wanted it too. That’s when I went to check the thermostat and I saw that the batteries didn’t look quite right. Sure enough, my husband had not paid enough attention and he had put the batteries in the wrong way. I made fun of him for days after that because he’s always telling me that I don’t know how to fix anything.