Is your heat on?

anonymous

I felt pretty cold last night, but I don't have a thermometer, so I don't know if it got cold enough for my landlady to be legally obligated to turn on the heat. She's very touchy, so I don't want to say anything about the heat until I'm very sure it's cold enough because she might fly off the handle and yell at me. Those of you who rent- has your heat come on yet?

wild style

I have the same situation w. my landlord. My heat is on now, and it needs to be (legally).

Check out a thread near the bottom of this page that I started. I didn't think the law applied to my building, but it does.

armchair_warrior

past few days been super cold. she should of have it on by now. tell her to turn it on!!!! and insist she does.

linusvanpelt

I don't know if I count, but I'm a landlord and my heat's on. It's always tricky in October, tho, because as in any building it takes a while before the part of the house by the thermostat gets cool enough to come on, and these buildings don't heat uniformly. Sometimes we have to turn up the thermostat to force the heat on if our tenants get cold (or if we do).

You can see the thread flexi started, but your landlady's obligations are a function both of the temperature outside and the temperature inside. She's obligated to heat the inside of the house to at least 68 during the day and at least 55 at night. Don't recall the hours offhand.

x

6am-10pm and heated to 55 btw. 10pm-6am

8thandprez

Ours has been on (off and on, depending upon temp.) for the past 2 weeks.

armchair_warrior

i left mines at automatic setting. i hope my tenants would let me know if its working or not . they havent call yet so i hope its working.

kosherdave

Mine's been on about 2 weeks now. Though it was off when it got warm a couple of days ago. Guess that is a good sign that my landlord is doing his job right!

findcate

Ours isn't on, the building's furnace is broken. LL is working to fix it, but it's COLD! I'm shivering.

quijibo

i smelled something funny this morning
something burning... and it was the radiator

darn. winter's here already :roll:

apollonia666

Mine's on and ROASTING, and I have no thermostat to turn it down. Better than freezing, but my landlord is wasting a lot of money. I and several other tenants have windows cracked to make it breathable in the building. Looks like I'd better dig out my humidifier.

anotherdayinbkln

on! we have these coverings on them... I don't know if they are decoration or if they let the heat out slowly, but so far its kept the place at a nice temp.

anonymous

I was so cold last night! I decided to get a thermometer and record how cold it is before I confront the landlady, since she can be quite mean and dismissive, but I've been so busy with work I keep forgetting to get one. It had to be below 55 last night though; I had to use two comforters and wear sweat pants and a sweatshirt. I wish I had a normal absentee landlord- my landlady lives in the building and I think she feels resentful of the tenants, who she thinks of as "interlopers". Thus, whenever we ask for anything that is legally required, like a secure mailbox with a lock or for the stair lights to be left on at night, she says it's her house so she'll do what she wants.

I wouldn't complain at all, but I'm worried about my pet hamster and hermit crabs.

I'm definitely shopping for a good thermometer after work today- does anyone know where I can get a good one? Maybe Target?

-CA

linusvanpelt

CA wrote: I'm definitely shopping for a good thermometer after work today- does anyone know where I can get a good one? Maybe Target?

-CA

Probably. If you have access to a Lowe's or Home Depot type place, that would be even more likely, plus you'd probably have better selection.

Heat/cold is so subjective that it's a very good idea to get an objective reading.

meganlibrarian

My building's heat went on for the first time at some point between 1AM and 8AM today. Thank goodness, as it was starting to get nippy!

(My last apartment was horrible - the steam radiators BLASTED heat all winter, and we kept our windows cracked nearly year-round.)

escap

Heating oil futures are significantly lower this year than they were last year at this time, so don't let your landlords give you as much crap about the cost as they might have before. :twisted:

femmedada

My apartment is sweltering. The management has no incentive to try to keep heat costs down. They just pass the costs along as extra assessments to the residents who are mostly to docile to notice. I keep the windows wide open all winter as do a lot of the people who live here. I keep the radiators shut off entire winters.

captain salty

i am so glad i control the heat in my new apartment. last place i had no control and it was ridiculously hot.

rapture

Heat finally came up yesterday over here!

nicolem

I still have NO HEAT!!! The landlord said he would do it last week and now he is saying Saturday morning.

My apartment is freezing!! What should I do? He said they need to have a man come and look at the boiler and then check our radiators.

I am thinking that if it isn't on Saturday afternoon when I get home I will call 311.

stacey

NicoleM wrote: I still have NO HEAT!!! The landlord said he would do it last week and now he is saying Saturday morning.

My apartment is freezing!! What should I do? He said they need to have a man come and look at the boiler and then check our radiators.

I am thinking that if it isn't on Saturday afternoon when I get home I will call 311.

Maybe you should tell him to buy you 2 space heaters in the meantime. You shouldn't be without heat.

If any homeowner hasn't done it already I highly recommend those new programmable thermostats. We put one in and we can program it to be at 65 M-R from 9-5 when no one is home and then it resets to 68 from 5-9 a.m. and stays at 68 on Sat. and Sun.