You know the temperature thing you turn round from like 0 to 5 depending on how hot you want it to be? Well I think, in trying to turn it off I may have turned it too far. As the it just keeps turning but in a jerky movement and the number doesn’t change if that makes sense? Like there’s a little plastic arrow that points up at the setting it’s on, so that you know what setting it’s on. But now it’s like the whole thing is turning rather than just the plastic cover with the numbers on.

So I think (well I’m hoping cos the opposite would be worse) that it’s now turned completely off and there is no way to turn it on. But because the whole thing is turning and the numbers don’t change up or down regardless of which way you turn it, it’s possible it could be on any one of the 0-5 settings but only stuck as showing on 0.

Any ideas?

Cheers!

  • monsterpiece42@reddthat.com
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    8 days ago

    I truly mean no disrespect; no one can be good at everything. But if this is the vocabulary you use to describe the object and the problem, it’s probably best to call a pro.

    • Oxymoron@lemmy.worldOP
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      7 days ago

      I truly mean no disrespect: starts to disrespect. Maybe just don’t reply if you can’t help. Other people have and I now have an idea of the solution and it doesn’t appear to be too hard. I just didn’t know the name of it.

      Do you feel good about yourself putting other people down? You’re obviously compensating for something. Your response screams “I’m not doing too well right now and need help”.

      No disrespect but I would probably seek professional help rather than wasting your time on here. People who put other people down alwaaaaaays have issues. They’re usually depressed and misery likes company as they say.

      I’m perfectly adept at many things. Just not this kind of thing. Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses. There is literally no value in your response at all. It’s actually incorrect so it’s doing the opposite of helping me. It turns out it’s very easy to fix, there’s YouTube videos that someone helpful who wasn’t looking to put someone down to make themselves feel better for 5 minute.

      I pity you and you know what? You deserve that 5 minute of feeling good about yourself, letting off that pent up steam that’s clearly stored up inside you.

      No disrespect but you come across as a very sad individual.

      But hey, at least you know more about radiators than me.

      • crashfrog@lemm.ee
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        7 days ago

        You really do need to call someone for this, if this is a thermostat valve on a radiator you’re going to burn yourself

      • monsterpiece42@reddthat.com
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        7 days ago

        I find your response baffling. I think it was completely out-of-pocket but I’m going to extend a one-time olive branch in good faith that there was some sort of misunderstanding.

        I am open to a proper explanation as to how specifically it was hurtful or disrespectful. And if it was and I’m missing a social cue here, I would love to know how that equates to such an aggressive response. My absolute best guess is, that you read it as “you can’t be good at anything”, but I said “you can’t be good at everything”, which literally implies that you are good at other things.

        I actually was a certified HVAC tech for a few years. I have seen people get seriously hurt not knowing when their system had steam in it or from not being able to control when the boiler kicks on (mostly renters) and steam starts shooting out of the hole mid-repair. I don’t have any way to assess your skills over the internet so I suggested the safe option. Similar logic to, if you don’t know if someone can work on cars, maybe don’t tell them to do their own brakes.