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Last year when I was just renting, I didn’t care so much that in the dead of winter, with my steam radiator valves turned completely off, I was still compelled to open my windows a good deal because the heat from the floors was more than heating my apartment (I live on the third of four floors…) This winter, now owning the same apartment, wanting to keep our little coop’s maintenance/fuel bill as low as possible, I thus:

–in a four story building such as this one, where should the thermostat/sensor be that “decides” when it is cold enough for the furnace to switch on?

–has anyone had experiences with wireless thermostat/sensors that might make it possible to use the ideal thermostat location to set the building’s temperature, and minimize the aforementioned “radiator-off-windows-open” situation?