This did nothing but exhaust my furnace and decrease it’s efficiency

When I became a first time homeowner, I was really dumb and naive regaurding my HVAC system. Before owning a house, I lived with my parents and then went off to university where I lived in a dorm or student housing. I never had to think about the HVAC system other than what I wanted to set my thermostat to. I was responsible for paying the monthly utility bill while I was living in student housing, but I wasn’t responsible for taking care of the HVAC tune ups or replacing the air filter. I knew that I’d have to take care of my HVAC system once purchasing a house, but I didn’t know exactly what that entailed until after moving in. One day, when the temperature dropped overnight, I went to my thermostat and turned the thermostat from 66 degrees to 76 degrees. In my mind, I thought that if I increased the temperature by 10 degrees then I’d get the furnace to work faster to heat up my home. I didn’t plan on leaving the thermostat set at 76 degrees for an extended time. I learned the hard way that I was very wrong about my theory, because my furnace ended up running longer in order to get my house to 76 degrees, not faster. This did nothing but exhaust my furnace and decrease it’s efficiency. After doing this several times within a few weeks, I was appalled by my utility bill and I learned that I should never increase the temperature on my thermostat so dramatically in hopes that it would heat my house faster.

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