It really should not be that way. If it’s really such a problem then either change the way you dress or complain to the management, but don’t open the window with the heat running.
if management is already running heat 24/7, opening the window is absolutely the answer. the other apartments won’t appreciably suffer from you bleeding heat, realistically you’re only changing your own temperature.
or management runs the heat less, which would’ve also been the perfect-world outcome of trying to talk to them like you suggested. occam’s razor and all that.
you’re assuming apartments without thermostats are logging temps and sending them back to a central unit, which is then averaging the temperature of EVERY unit in order to maintain a temperature.
once again, occam’s razor. the way this is usually done is just running the whole building’s heat at a set temperature for a set period of time every day. literally nothing you do as a tenant will change the amount of heat coming out of your vents/radiators.
i have lived in an apartment in the US wherein the heat turned on the same day every year, and ran everyday starting and ending at the same times. from what i heard from my neighbors this was not uncommon for converted homes and public housing.
not every heating unit works like you think it does!
It really should not be that way. If it’s really such a problem then either change the way you dress or complain to the management, but don’t open the window with the heat running.
if management is already running heat 24/7, opening the window is absolutely the answer. the other apartments won’t appreciably suffer from you bleeding heat, realistically you’re only changing your own temperature.
The problem is if we make one exception then we need to make a million and then we’re bleeding fossil fuel and emissions and power prices.
or management runs the heat less, which would’ve also been the perfect-world outcome of trying to talk to them like you suggested. occam’s razor and all that.
Opening the windows makes the heat run MORE.
You have to talk to management.
you’re assuming apartments without thermostats are logging temps and sending them back to a central unit, which is then averaging the temperature of EVERY unit in order to maintain a temperature.
once again, occam’s razor. the way this is usually done is just running the whole building’s heat at a set temperature for a set period of time every day. literally nothing you do as a tenant will change the amount of heat coming out of your vents/radiators.
The machine heats the units. It stops when a specific temperature is reached. Opening the window will make it run for longer.
i have lived in an apartment in the US wherein the heat turned on the same day every year, and ran everyday starting and ending at the same times. from what i heard from my neighbors this was not uncommon for converted homes and public housing.
not every heating unit works like you think it does!
If a heating unit runs on timers its timers either need adjustment or replace that thermostat.
I refuse to believe a heater made in the last half century lacks external controls and if its older then that it’s probably filled with radon.
Stop being a little bitch and talk to your landlord.
yes, and when I lived in a building with no per-unit temperature control, that temperature was above what I could tolerate, so windows open it was
Talk to your landlord there is no excuse.