Slum lords

blues90, man! I was P.O'd because my blue jeans and denim shirts didn't get completely dry...again. I'm not sure I could deal with the situations you've brought up.

I have no idea why they our slum lord had a plumber install the heaters in the first place. The old ones still worked yet we had one neighbor who wedged her way into becoming the buildings manager and she was concerned because a little water dripped on hers then all of a sudden they were here ripping them out. All the other 5 work then a few years ago ours of course died and he replaced it with a different brand. It lasted one year then quit took a month for him to get one small part now this is the second time quit last year and this year.

The plumber still has not called back and all I get is his answering machine the slum lord said she would call him yesterday haven't heard from either.

It's rained a lot this month and hits 41F at night ad the cold to the damp.

Last time the plumber installed a pad lock one puts keys in the plumber would not give me the code then first time he had to fix it and I was given the code he forgot it plus his key to the back security gate then he calls me any time he needs to get in the room where the heaters and main water pipes exist.

I hope both of them loose their heat and spring water leaks. We also had rats a few years ago.

As always the slum lord takes the cheap way out.

It was clean- the units are near 10 years old and just keep getting worse.

blues90 , Funny you should mention this.  We live in an old building with water pipe heating as well.

The problem here is the opposite though.  It works too good.  Each year, I either have to keep the balcony door open to various degrees to cool the apt down so that it's not a sauna in here, or, like this year, I just leave the A/C unit in the window and run it.........in the winter!     LOL.

Why would I do that?  Well, the balcony door being open works, but not "evenly."  It gets livable near the door area, but the rest of the apt still gets too warm.  To get the apt livable everywhere, it's gotta be absolutely freezing near the door area.

The A/C unit circulates the air and cools down the apt more evenly.  All this cuz they won't turn the heating down to a reasonable level cuz 1 or two tenants complained that it's too cold to walk around in their underwear.  Ever hear of clothes people?!!!   SMH.  LOL.

1 year the heat did go out for a few days during a cold snap.  Took over 24 hours for the building to cool down to the point where I even noticed.  Then, once it really did get cold, I ran a couple of little space heaters and put the oven on and opened the oven door for bit every now and then.  We were fine with that until the heating got fixed.  This building may be something like 60 years old, but it seems to be fairly well insulated.  It sure does hold the heat and cold in well.

After endless calls I finally blew up said this is unacceptable , I get a call back and they sent their own heating guy out. At least he got it working , it needs one part. said I could adjust the thermostat yet it is set at 74 and the highest will go is 72. He said I could turn it off , hope so yet I don't hear it click like it used to. Who knows These new heaters are all electronic. We will see if I can turn it off. I'm afraid to.