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Old 04-07-2011, 07:59 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Your landlady is legally required to provide heat and hot water. You need to demand those things. I would not continue paying rent on a place that did not provide heat and hot water. Regardless of how cheap it is, it's not worth living like that.
I DO have heat---it's just drafty. I get luke-warm water---not hot water. My theory is that I have such limited hot water because she pays the water bill for the property---not me---and she tries to make sure I take shorter showers. LOL! I still wouldn't trade this place for anywhere, though. Being walking distance to so much for just $550/month is incredible. I was paying just under $1,200/month in Reston's Uplands neighborhood, where I could easily walk to not much of interest, really.
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Old 04-07-2011, 09:13 AM
 
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I DO have heat---it's just drafty. I get luke-warm water---not hot water. My theory is that I have such limited hot water because she pays the water bill for the property---not me---and she tries to make sure I take shorter showers. LOL! I still wouldn't trade this place for anywhere, though. Being walking distance to so much for just $550/month is incredible. I was paying just under $1,200/month in Reston's Uplands neighborhood, where I could easily walk to not much of interest, really.
Why can't you just turn up the hot water heater?
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Old 04-07-2011, 09:24 AM
 
Location: ɥbɹnqsʇʇıd
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My theory is that I have such limited hot water because she pays the water bill for the property---not me---and she tries to make sure I take shorter showers.
As someone who is very familiar with tenant/landlord relationships and old Pittsburgh housing, be aware that she can not do that, even if she is footing the bill.

You can find similarly priced housing with hot water and heating in other places in the city, that is if you don't mind living in less "desirable" parts of town.
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Old 04-07-2011, 09:29 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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Why can't you just turn up the hot water heater?
There is no hot water heater. My rowhome is 100+ years old, after all.
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Old 04-07-2011, 09:46 AM
 
Location: Hillsboro, OR
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Perhaps the weather will improve by then! April and May can have some sunny days in Pittsburgh without rain, a few of them anyway. Don't expect anything but gray days from October until mid April, at best. Summers are very hot and humid. A/C is very necessary, but many of the older homes don't have it. Personally, I can't imagine why you would like the weather in Pittsburgh. Perhaps you are fond of gray with rain/sleet/ice?
I love snow, storms, cold winters, mild to warm summers, and occasional blue sky in the winter (but not all the time blue sky... I do love winter gray skies )
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Old 04-07-2011, 09:48 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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There is no hot water heater. My rowhome is 100+ years old, after all.
So where does your hot water come from? A mysterious hot spring?

My house is 90 years old, and I have a water heater.

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Old 04-07-2011, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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So where does your hot water come from? A mysterious hot spring?
I only saw an old furnace down in the cellar and assumed that heated the water somehow. There certainly can't be an independent hot water heater down there, and if it is it must only hold like 10 gallons, if that.
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Old 04-07-2011, 12:16 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh area
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It might not be down there then. Sometimes the water heaters are on other floor(s) of the house. If there are split units they might even each have separate water heaters. Is your heat via radiator or forced air? Even if it's radiator, there wouldn't be potable water going through that system, I don't think. (At least, there shouldn't be.)

The other possibility is that they went to a tankless, but that seems unlikely as they are expensive. The trouble with tankless (especially older ones) can be that it doesn't raise the temp enough when the incoming water is really cold, like in the winter.
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Old 04-07-2011, 02:02 PM
 
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It is not yet mid-April, and yet today I saw a fire burning in the sky. Oh sky gods, how have we angered you?
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Old 04-08-2011, 12:04 AM
 
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I love snow, storms, cold winters, mild to warm summers, and occasional blue sky in the winter (but not all the time blue sky... I do love winter gray skies )
You need to move to Colorado or Maine or Vermont. Pittsburgh does not have mild summers and it's rare to see a blue sky in the winter.
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