Intention

As with many apartments in the northeast United Stated, in my apartment there is no thermostat and both heating and AC are manually controlled. This results in a problem regularly faced by my wife in our apartment: when she turns the radiators on, the only signal that the home has sufficiently warmed up is when the home becomes uncomfortably hot. At this point, even with the radiators turned off, the home stays in an uncomfortable temperature range for a significant period of time. Both my wife and I are sensitive to home temperature, so preventing this overheating would reduce stress for both of us. Ideally, being able to close the radiators before the home temperature reaches an uncomfortable level would fulfill this need.