The heating in Unite Students’ properties maintains a base temperature to stop rooms from getting cold. They’ll then find a thermostat in their individual rooms that they can use to alter how warm their room is.
There are two types of thermostats in Unite’s properties. The most common version has a single boost button. When the student hit the boost button on their thermostat, it means that the heating will ramp up for 45 minutes, and they can do this multiple times.
But once it hits the upper temperature, they won’t be able to keep increasing it. Instead, it will simply maintain that level of warmth when they press the button.
In some buildings, they'll find a different thermostat that has five different settings (off, low, medium, high, and boost). The student can choose which setting they would like to have the heating on, and then use the boost button to increase the temperature for 45 minutes.
Once that temperature has been reached, the heating won’t come on again unless the thermostat senses a drop below that pre-set temperature.