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Handicapped Accessible Thermostat Installation
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Handicapped Accessible Thermostat Installation
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" to finish -- around here Greta right yes pretty much of installing a thermostat and this is not just an ordinary thermostat that is not -- If you look at it you'll see in the in large numbers on this. That easy to read and also light touch you can also really feel them. Exactly it's the raised numbered big numbers so that anybody with sight impairment can really see them easily and also collects every second degrees today -- an area. It clicks every two degrees it's easy read from that was the -- exactly an easy to see. Heating cooling thermostat otherwise it's simple it's a simple thermostat itself. Connection that's the wire connection here. -- its internal story on it. Harder like anchors set in place into the plaster Robert -- and a level goes up -- here and a moment. So what you have to level the mounting plate William Mercury inside yeah. Inside the thermostat is right. And they want to make sure it's balanced you know -- the burner to turn on -- you don't want eternal."
" Exactly -- the Mercury's inside this glass vial which is attached to the metal coil. In the middle Corel expands when the heat rises contracts when he gets colder and it affects the Mercury going back and forth which essentially makes the contact. Peter's turn enough we're trying to."
" Check and see if this was -- moved from. There's just enough play there to make minor adjustment. And even put the level."
" Leaves we'll won't all right."
" Okay it's a simple to work thermostat which means there aren't any night setbacks or anything like that well there's not a simple the last. And but little or -- And so it did to where you can we're -- on either side it doesn't matter what else. OK and then this is the part that just interface is there to contact trim work. It's not hard wired just mounted it is just -- little. Everything like these rules are gonna line up and these to implement the contact right there."
" So people. OK and then the last step is to. -- or."
" And so the numbers obviously correspond to the 50s70s. And eighties and right now would be set right what 6860. Correct but it's supposed to click return right. Because field in case. All right thanks -- okay."
