The official Is the heat on in your building yet?&quot

Oh, yeah. I start this watch somewhere around September 26th (I love me my heat).

It's on....it needs to be on by law. After October 1st, if the outside temp falls below 55 during the hours of 6am-10pm, they have to heat your apartment to 68 degrees minimum....there are guidelines for 10pm-6am as well (look at nyc.gov or call 311). Some small buildings will try to tell you that they are not subjected to these laws, but that's not true.

I'm nice and toasty now. My LL had to call her boiler person, so we were a few days late, but she had good intentions and got it done quickly, unlike Asshat (my former LL) who would argue with me every step of the way and used to try to convince me the start date was Oct. 15th. When I proved him wrong, it was "I don't need to follow those laws". It only got worse from there.

Signed,
Warm and cozy Flexi

Our supers have two young kids - is that why it's been so blazing hot? Seriously, we've had to open windows!

...or maybe your apartment has better insulation than some. or maybe it's not so much not having it, as not knowing when you will.

our heat is on, but i think we'd be okay without it, because we live in a big, old, solid building.

It doesn't matter if I had to pay for it (I pay a decent amount of rent, and heat is included) or not. I get cold easily and want my heat!

I control my own heat but I luckily live above a restuarant so I hardly ever have to turn it on until the middle of November or so. Summer months - the A/C is cranking...because I live above a restuarant.

No heat in my apartment yet though yesterday it was chillier in here than outdoors.

i work in a commercial building that has totally different laws. laws, its seems, that are never enforced.

it's 60 in my studio right now and i'm working with very cold wet clay and plaster. and people wonder why i'm grumpy.

(yes, i've called 311. and my landlord who is the subleasee. the goniffs won't turn it on. and there is none on the weekends. nada.)

Being a co op , we control our own heat, which is wonderful! And, it is temperature controlled to automatically come on at certain temps set on the thermostat. And, yes, we have had plenty of heat the last couple of weeks.

No heat yet in our (rented) place, but we live on the fourth-floor of an old brownstone with a likely equally-ancient boiler, so I never really expected it.

Got a tiny little spaceheater last night after a (legally) chilly Monday morning.

My heat started on Saturday at 4:50am.....then it comes back on around 7 or 7:30am....and then that's it till 4:50am. It gets so damn hot in here when they keep it running , so I'm happy it's not on all day. But that will change come November and I'll be laying on my couch sweating to death and grumpy as hell. It gets hot like a sauna in here gotdammit. The only area I can go to escape when it gets that hot is in the kitchen or bathroom.

Heat is included in our rent ,thank God , cuz that stuff is crazy expensive. My dad pays $400-$500 a month to heat our house + $200 a month for electricity for the space heaters that they use in the bedroom in the basement and the one in my Dads room. He pays all that money for heat and his room for some reason just doesn't warm up unless we set the thermostat up to 80-90 degrees. My mom gets pissed when I turn it up so high cuz it gets really hot in most of the bedrooms and the pipes let out a clank here and there.She yells at me and says that I'm going to blow up the house. The reason I was doing that was bcuz during my last visit home his space heater broke and he was taking forever to go buy a new one and so , hell yeah I was turning that shit up for him cuz he's old and I swear if you walk in his bedroom you'll feel like you were outside , that's how cold it gets in there. I don't want him to get sick , yo. He got a space heater now and that's a good thing cuz nobody else has the guts to turn that thermostat up past her normal 70 degrees setting. Not bcuz of the blowing up the house thing -it's cuz of the mom blowing up our ass thing. I'm her fav so I sweet talk her (from a distance ) into not beating me. My sweetness always works so instead she makes me turn it down and tells me that I am not allowed near that thermostat ever.

tuna underpants. heh

i'm still laughing about the underpants

meganlibrarian wrote: Yup, we've had heat for maybe a week or so. Of course, now I've come to realize that the radiator's not running in our bedroom... where our 6-month old daughter sleeps, as well. I've gotta harass the super to see about getting that radiator fixed. Bleh.

is it the old fashioned kind that you can bleed with a key? if so, that's super easy to do yourself

No heat (or hot water) in my 4th-floor brownstone unit for the past three days. Calling the management company results in a pre-recorded message saying the office will be closed until Thursday. It sucks. On the bright side, though, it's done wonders for my physical fitness: nothing gets my lazy butt to the gym like the prospect of a hot shower I can't get anywhere else....

Mine came on friday night (no big deal, i prefer cooler temperatures and wearing hoodies, yes i hate summer.) and my radiator freaked me out. The loud clanging noise woke me the hell up and i didn't know what it was at first! I ran to my window and peered outside thinking someone was trying to steal my bike or something.