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== Heating Zones ==

The building has three heating zones that are separately controlled. The room in the back left corner of the main room (looking toward the back of the building) contains our boiler and our hot water tank.

The building has three heating zones that are separately controlled. The room in the back left corner of the main room (looking toward the back of the building) contains our boiler and our hot water tank. It is important to know that the thermostat is an on-off switch, not a valve: setting it to 90 won't heat anything up quicker, and setting it to 50 won't cool anything down quicker. Set it to the temperature you want, and let the system get there. Also, the thermostats are adjustable by anyone, so please be excellent to each other and don't fight over the temperature. System problems should be flagged to the General Operations Team for investigation: you can tag us in any message.

=== Summary ===

A quick primer on heating at PS1: There are three (four) thermostats for the heating systems:

* The front of the 3519 building (in Lasers/3D Printing, controls heat there, Lounge, and upstairs) - forced air

* The back of the 3519 building (by the Clausing lathe, controls heat for General, Cold Metals, Small Metals, the Kitchen, and sort of controls the Catwalk although the servers heat that more),

* The 3517 building (by the radial arm saw, controls heat for Wood Shop and Hot Metals). They are all user-adjustable and they control the hot water pumps for the various radiators and heating units. The heating units in the workshop areas are self-controlled: the blowers will come on when the heating coils are hot enough to matter, and will shut off when they cool off enough. The thermostat controls the supply of hot water to the units, so they won't turn on right away when the thermostat is turned up.

* Besides these, there is a fourth thermostat in Arts that controls only that furnace. That one is locked, and it's only meant to provide heat when the hot water system isn't.

=== Upstairs ===

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 == Heating Zones ==
-The building has three heating zones that are separately controlled. The room in the back left corner of the main room (looking toward the back of the building) contains our boiler and our hot water tank.
+The building has three heating zones that are separately controlled. The room in the back left corner of the main room (looking toward the back of the building) contains our boiler and our hot water tank. It is important to know that the thermostat is an on-off switch, not a valve: setting it to 90 won't heat anything up quicker, and setting it to 50 won't cool anything down quicker. Set it to the temperature you want, and let the system get there. Also, the thermostats are adjustable by anyone, so please be excellent to each other and don't fight over the temperature. System problems should be flagged to the General Operations Team for investigation: you can tag us in any message.
+=== Summary ===
+A quick primer on heating at PS1: There are three (four) thermostats for the heating systems:
+* The front of the 3519 building (in Lasers/3D Printing, controls heat there, Lounge, and upstairs) - forced air
+* The back of the 3519 building (by the Clausing lathe, controls heat for General, Cold Metals, Small Metals, the Kitchen, and sort of controls the Catwalk although the servers heat that more),
+* The 3517 building (by the radial arm saw, controls heat for Wood Shop and Hot Metals). They are all user-adjustable and they control the hot water pumps for the various radiators and heating units. The heating units in the workshop areas are self-controlled: the blowers will come on when the heating coils are hot enough to matter, and will shut off when they cool off enough. The thermostat controls the supply of hot water to the units, so they won't turn on right away when the thermostat is turned up.
+* Besides these, there is a fourth thermostat in Arts that controls only that furnace. That one is locked, and it's only meant to provide heat when the hot water system isn't.
 === Upstairs ===