Programmable Thermostats

I wrote about this in an earlier post, but I thought I could expand on the information a little bit. We have three heating zones in our house, each is controlled by a programmable thermostat. By installing the programmable thermostats, I believe we have saved about 15 to 20 percent on our heating bills.

The [...]

Honeywell Programable Thermostat filter reset

CT3600, CT3611, CT3500, CT3595, CT8602 Thermostat Filter reset addendum

I purchased and installed a Honeywell CT3500 programmable thermostat last year. It works very well and I am satisfied with it, however, after a few months an annoying “Filter” message began to blink at me. Since I have a baseboard hot water system (hydronic), I do [...]

Heating Systems

After moving in, my first project was re-configuring and re-connecting our hydronic (baseboard hot water) heating system. During the renovation, much of the existing base board radiators had to be removed to replace floors. A new Dunkirk oil-fired furnace was installed in 1997. It is 85.2 percent efficient and has an output of 105 MBTU. [...]