Andrew Gabriel wrote:

Alternatively, buy another wall stat and stick it to the wall
with double-sided sticky pads without connecting it to anything,
and tell the rest of the family that's the new thermostat:-)

This could actually be an answer for the "I think a thermostat is just
an on off switch" brigade... sneaky ;-)

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Cheers,

John.

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