On Sep 12, 9:40*am, "MLD" wrote:
"allanc" wrote in message

... We recently moved into a home with a natural gas fired furnace, air
conditioning and a 'White Rogers' thermostat.
The temperature displayed on the thermostat is off about 8 degrees
Fahrenheit.
I have some basic skills but not *really* handy.
Is there some adjustment that is necessary to the thermostat that I
would probably be able to perform?

Thanks in advance.

I have a White Rogers and there is an adjustment that allows you to
compensate for a difference between the display and the set temperature
readouts. *I believe that the max adjustment is about 3 or 4 degrees. *Have
you used an accurate thermometer to determine the actual temperature at the
thermostat location? *New batteries?
MLD

To be honest, I never knew that mechanical thermostats could have
batteries.
As I said in original post, we recently moved into this post.
One day last week, the stat read about 72 degrees and I was *really*
uncomfortable.
I placed two digit thermomoters (separately) on top of the stat and
they each displayed about 80-81 degress.