Thermostats – why do they operate the opposite way to everything else? Clockwise = down / Anti-clockwise = up?

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Thermostats – why do they operate the opposite way to everything else? Clockwise = down / Anti-clockwise = up?

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Answer 1

They don’t necessarily work that way. In my experience, room thermostats for heating systems are typically clockwise = hot =up, anti-clockwise = cool = down.