Gah! (or, how cold is it again?)

[magid]

I came home. I went down to the de-moldified basement. I looked at my furnace. The pilot light is on.

That's good, I suppose.

Next step: replacing the batteries in the thermostat, even though it doesn't indicate they need replacing. I loosen the fiddly little screws, and try to get part of it off the wall.

No dice.

It sits there, firmly keeping itself attached to my wall. I pull, I pry, and nothing seems to work. I have had to change the batteries once the entire time I've lived here, and I think someone ended up doing it for me. I tried to find information online, but this thermostat is old enough (a Honeywell Chronotherm III, if anyone cares) that there's not a PDF of the user's manual online, and I've never had a paper copy. I suppose it's useful to know I can order a copy from Honeywell, but that doesn't help me NOW.

I feel so incredibly frustrated.
And cold.

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[magid.livejournal.com]

I called Honeywell, and pretty much all the woman said was that I should make sure the screws were all the way out, and it slides up "like a garage door". Maybe it will work.

In the meantime, the mold contractor, who apparently returned the call of my neighbors quite promptly, have yet to return either of my calls. I left both day and evening phone numbers, too.