Warning: Change Your Thermostat Batteries Before This Happens To You!

Warning: Change Your Thermostat Batteries Before This Happens To You!

We have a vacant home listed. It is a nice house, clean, neat, 4 bedroom

two story home that I showed last Saturday. It was a changed house

when I showed it again on Monday. We had record setting low

temperatures here over last weekend and the batteries failed in the

thermostat.

NO HEAT!

Needless to say, I rushed to the store, bought batteries, and got the

furnace going again. I also turned off the water to try and eliminate

as much damage as possible. When the house warmed up, sure enough,

a water pipe broke between the kitchen ceiling and the upstairs bathroom,

according to the plumber.

So, the moral of the story is: If you have a vacant home,

change the batteries in that thermostat—don’t take chances!

This home had a 2 year old furnace and thermostat, so I

didn’t have a thought that the batteries in the thermostat

could fail. Remember this tip is you are planning on an extended

vacation or going south for a month or longer. Replace

those batteries before you go. It doesn’t take long in below zero

weather for your home to incur substantial damage.