Next, adjust the heat anticipator, which fine-tunes the point at which the thermostat turns off the furnace burners. Locate ...

Bill Ervolino finds that setting the thermostat, especially in older homes, to ward off that winter chill is not as simple as ...

You may be tempted to set your thermostat at bracing levels and survive the winter by bundling up in layers or piling on blankets if you're trying to save a penny. Though that may seem unsafe ...

While it may be tempting to adjust the “anticipator” to take care of the problem or even replace the bimetallic thermostat with an electronic version, building your own thermostat from scratch ...