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I know many NYC apartments have heating that can't be individually adjusted by each unit, but instead the building just cranks up the heat to every apartment.
What do you do if you buy an apartment and the heat can't be adjusted and it's boiling hot in the winter?
Is there a solution to this?
How do you live with this?
I usually open the windows because I find the heat unbearably hot in the Winter. The problem is that the second the windows are open it starts getting cold and it's back and forth non stop trying to adjust to the temperature by letting in cold air through the windows and the hot air out the windows. Do you have radiator steam heat? I feel like that is the most brutal.. In years past I was able to screw the radiator valve to make it not heat it up, but that doesn't seem to work anymore, and I am afraid I will cause a pipe to burst if I leave it shut off all the time. (I also have a tropical fish that I can't let it get toooo cold indoors either). If I had to pay for my own heat I would rather just bundle up in a sweater or something in the Winter.
Most buildings have 1 heat riser, then individual radiators in the bedroom, living room. If this is your set up, ask management to remove and cap 1 radiator.
I kept 1 radiator in the bedroom, and it was still too hot. So i stuck with just the heat riser pipe in the bathroom, cracked the window , and leave the bathroom door to heat ghe 1 bedroom. I did have a pre war 1 bedroom.
You can also run a fan, to circulate the dry air in thr apartment during the cold season.
The last resort... is you count the days and YOU PRAY FOR SPRING It gets here so soon and then we are freaking out about the oppsosite end of the spectrum. it's weird though, I can totally endure it 80 degrees inside in the Summer, but when it's 80 degree inside in the WINTER I feel like I am being boiled alive against my own will.
But to buy something and have to do that in my own home? I don't think so.
If you're buying into an older building, that's what happens.
It's really not a big deal, IMO.
I don't know. I am not as uncomfortable as some people seem to be since I hate the cold. I like not having to wear two or three layers indoors or having to sit around with blankets.
I really only have my window slightly open in the bedroom because I HAVE to sleep with a blanket.
I know many NYC apartments have heating that can't be individually adjusted by each unit, but instead the building just cranks up the heat to every apartment.
What do you do if you buy an apartment and the heat can't be adjusted and it's boiling hot in the winter?
Is there a solution to this?
How do you live with this?
Turn some or all of the radiators completely off. I usually have all of the radiators off in my apartment all winter. I get enough heat from surrounding apartmets and pipes in the kitchen and bathroom.
(i think someone is just bragging that they bought an apartment to be honest) just the psychic energy i am getting now in this thread.
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It gets here so soon and then we are freaking out about the oppsosite end of the spectrum. it's weird though, I can totally endure it 80 degrees inside in the Summer, but when it's 80 degree inside in the WINTER I feel like I am being boiled alive against my own will.
