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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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 Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| Water freezes at 32 degrees |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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| young_clinton wrote: |
| Water freezes at 32 degrees |
Heres the big 5 that use fahrenheit: the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands, Palau, and the US. |
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EZE
Joined: 05 May 2012
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Now it says "room temperature 20 degrees," but the rectangle with the three waves with "heating" above it isn't on unless I press the "heating" button. I'm hoping it's not going to burn gas and keep my apartment at 20 degrees, unless I actually push the heating button. I won't need heat until the temperature inside my apartment falls below 14. That's when I have to worry about the pipes freezing. |
How about turning it down to 14? |
I can't. When I push the "heating" button, I can dial it down to as low as 5, but right now it says 19 when the heating is turned off and there's no way to change it. The other day it was 20. I don't know if it's a thermometer or what. |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Sat Nov 08, 2014 9:33 pm Post subject: |
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| EZE wrote: |
| Lazio wrote: |
| EZE wrote: |
| Now it says "room temperature 20 degrees," but the rectangle with the three waves with "heating" above it isn't on unless I press the "heating" button. I'm hoping it's not going to burn gas and keep my apartment at 20 degrees, unless I actually push the heating button. I won't need heat until the temperature inside my apartment falls below 14. That's when I have to worry about the pipes freezing. |
How about turning it down to 14? |
I can't. When I push the "heating" button, I can dial it down to as low as 5, but right now it says 19 when the heating is turned off and there's no way to change it. The other day it was 20. I don't know if it's a thermometer or what. |
If you turned it all the way down to 5, but the monitor still reads 19 or 20, then it should be telling you the 현재 온도 (current temperature). The word 설정 should be shown when it is displaying the temperature you yourself have set as the target. Obviously an 온돌 heating system can't cool the room, it will (or at least should) simply not run if the room temperature is higher than that which you have set. |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:42 pm Post subject: |
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| I think Koreans have had thiers on at night for the past week or two between 25 and 30 according to what some have told me. |
That would be me too. Older I get, less I like feeling chilly.
Today is Ipdong, the start of winter, & feels like it too. Many calendars here show the traditional 24 season markers. In my experience, they're often uncannily accurate: http://blog.kozaza.com/2014/03/24-seasonal-divisions/ |
Oh, yeah! I forgot about their even keeled seasoning system. We always start our first day of winter on December 21st or usually near full moon around that time? But, in Asia, they take part of each season and tack it onto another to evenly round it out. Funny, it would feel more like winter in Canada now rather than Korea (when there's still leaves on the trees and the daytime temps still in the mid to upper teens). |
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Weigookin74
Joined: 26 Oct 2009
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| Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| EZE wrote: |
| Lazio wrote: |
| EZE wrote: |
| Now it says "room temperature 20 degrees," but the rectangle with the three waves with "heating" above it isn't on unless I press the "heating" button. I'm hoping it's not going to burn gas and keep my apartment at 20 degrees, unless I actually push the heating button. I won't need heat until the temperature inside my apartment falls below 14. That's when I have to worry about the pipes freezing. |
How about turning it down to 14? |
I can't. When I push the "heating" button, I can dial it down to as low as 5, but right now it says 19 when the heating is turned off and there's no way to change it. The other day it was 20. I don't know if it's a thermometer or what. |
Did it do this during the summer too or did it just come on automatically recently? I'm guessing maybe the landlord has control over the building's thermostats somehow and is just being an @$$wipe making you suffer in the heat because the old geysers love the heat too. Landlord seems like a real piece of work not even fixing the problem. Get your co teacher to call him and ask why it's on. Be persistent and don't take no for an answer. If he says he turned it on, tell him you want individual control over the heater in your own room. If it's just broken and he doesn't control it, be persistent about getting it fixed.
Sadly, older building landlords are often lazy, deliquient, or both and won't fix anything and try to pawn it off as your responsibility. Newer villas, thankfully, landlords take care of their buildings more it seems and actually fix things. Trend I've noticed here in Korea. |
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Weigookin74
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