Generally in the USA the halls are heated but each unit has their own thermostat with which to control the heating of their own unit. It’s okay to open a window when your unit’s heating is off, if it gets too bad then try to circulate the air, and if it’s still not enough call the landlord about it and demand something gets done about it.
Not everyone gets to control their own heat. My last apartment I had no way to adjust the room temp except with windows or buying my own mini/portable appliances.
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.
You saying “there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature” is whataboutism. I’m not saying all other wasteful things are permitted just because I take a stance on this one in topical conversation.
They said “there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature” and thats where I stopped reading because that IS whataboutism.
Don’t run the heat with the windows open. Never do that.
In a lot of apartment in cities, at least in the US Northeast, the building turns the heat on 1 October (dates might vary).
The perhaps urban legend says this practice dates to the Spanish 'Flu and was intended to force people to air their apartments.
Generally in the USA the halls are heated but each unit has their own thermostat with which to control the heating of their own unit. It’s okay to open a window when your unit’s heating is off, if it gets too bad then try to circulate the air, and if it’s still not enough call the landlord about it and demand something gets done about it.
That wasn’t how it worked in the apartments I had in Manhattan. Probably other cities are different as you point out.
Not everyone gets to control their own heat. My last apartment I had no way to adjust the room temp except with windows or buying my own mini/portable appliances.
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.
there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature
the thermal mass of the air is negligible compared to the thermal mass of the house itself and items inside
so “never” is a bit of an overreaction. now, if you left them open all the time so you were just constantly bleeding heat, different story
Thats whataboutism.
no, it isn’t.
You saying “there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature” is whataboutism. I’m not saying all other wasteful things are permitted just because I take a stance on this one in topical conversation.
alright, let’s say for a second that we just remove that line.
the rest of the comment holds up just fine.
You just had thermodynamics explained to you and called it whataboutism.
They said “there are far more wasteful things than airing out your house when the external temperature is below the house internal temperature” and thats where I stopped reading because that IS whataboutism.