How do you light a pilot light?

So we don't have heat. It has been around 40 degrees every night. This morning we woke up freezing. Like I put my winter jacket on in order to convince myself to get up. I figured I could pick out my clothes and go out to my car to change and put make-up on. It was that bad.

Anyways we were under the impression the landlord had to come and "light the pilot light." So I looked up how to do this.

Step 1: Find pilot light. Turn valve to off position and wait three minutes.

Step 2: Switch valve to pilot setting. Hold lit match to pilot opening while pressing the reset button. Do this until it burns brightly (approx. 1 min).

Step 3: Turn valve to on position. The pilot light should remain lit.


Other way is to just follow the directions on the furnace (it is federally mandated that they provide them).

So anyways, the man came today and realized that it was because our thermostat....looks like this:

Yeah so it was set at 50 degrees. All we had to do was turn it up. WTheck. We have been dying for the last two weeks. We felt really really stupid. In our defense we did try and look for a thermostat but it was hidden behind a bookshelf. Agh....at least now I know how to light a pilot light.