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Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Only Gus touch.
Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? I mean, if you’re the landlord. It’s cheap. When The Lovely Marianne and the elves want some heat they toggle their thermostat on. When the upstairs tenant wants some heat he bangs on the pipes until Marianne or one of the elves toggles control over to him. The other day, the landlord stopped by to shut the supply valves on the radiators in our office. He explained to Marianne that if the radiators didn’t get hot then the thermostat in our office wouldn’t shut off the oil burner, and the tenant upstairs would have heat and be happy. And might stop calling him in the middle of the night. For heat.
“I think you’ll be alright,” the landlord said. He left; she opened the valves. Makes perfect sense, doesn’t it? Dan Holohan
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The Lovely Marianne is also my business partner. I work at home where it is quiet. She works in our storefront office with our employees, the elves. The building is old and has one-pipe-steam heat. There are two apartments above our office, but only one boiler. There are, however, two thermostats – one in our office, and the other in one of the upstairs apartments. Either can fire the boiler, but not at the same time. There’s a toggle switch wired into the two thermostats. It’s also in our office and it decides which thermostat is in charge. So we have three places of occupancy, two thermostats, one boiler, and one toggle switch.
“But if you shut those valves, then we’ll be cold in our office,” The Lovely Marianne said.
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