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Originally Posted by HLS
My complex, a high rise, has radiator heat. Built in 1935 well the heater/boiler been breaking down. -9° outside and no heat. The boiler would run a few hrs then shut down. They been restarting the boiler first thing in the am but its been shutting down at night when it gets freaking cold. The overnight maintenance line are awful to deal with. I don't think they are even in the USA. i am just not calling anymore. i let other people in my building do it. i can't be the only one calling. i went out to walmart in -35° windchill and got me a heating blanket
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Our building management has made a change so that they can control the boiler (in the basement) from their office miles away. I emailed them last week when it was 67 degrees (F) at 2 in the afternoon. The managing agent stopped by the next day with the super (when I wasn't up yet) and tried to figure some other reason that it was cold other than that they don't provide enough heat. They purposely set the boiler so that it goes off many times during the day. Heat was coming up when they were in my apartment but it was off 45 minutes later.
Now with it being 22 degrees outside (F.) we should have more constant heat. When I am sitting on the sofa, I am using a heated throw blanket and a heating pad.
Heat has been a problem here for about 15 years. The building management is too cheap to give good heat. It's never even warm in here. The super does not live in the building, so he never knew how it was unless I called or texted him, and he never understood the problem. He changes the valve on the radiators almost every year to prove he did something about it.