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wow your landlord sounds awesome, do you live in nyc? I think I’m resigned to using gas until I buy a home (if that day ever comes).

Eric_WVGG 5y ago
I do live in NYC. "Awesome" isn't quite the term I'd use… he's highly motivated to get gas out of this building (one highly illegal piece of plastic ductwork from Czechoslovakia was found in our system — had there been a fire and this piece melted, BLAMMO). Personally, I am convinced by recent studies that indoor gas is just blanket bad for health, so I was quite happy to cooperate. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602/gas-stove-cooking-indoor-air-pollution-health-risks https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602...
- inglor_cz 5y ago
  "one highly illegal piece of plastic ductwork from Czechoslovakia" Just wow, that is the last context in which I expected to see the name of my long defunct country of birth.
- atombender 5y ago
  NYC landlords seem to be eager to get rid of gas because of the maintenance costs. For one, they have to use licensed gas line plumbers to service the building, and there are all sorts of safety regulations that have to be followed, all of which adds to the cost. The city takes gas extremely seriously, as does ConEd, and the latter will shut down an installation that isn't considered safe. My apartment had a small gas leak on a gas furnace connection inside the apartment, and ConEd came and locked the gas meter. My landlord dragged his feet for more than a year because a plumber would cost him around $2,500 to inspect the equipment and do the necessary DOB paperwork. He actually chewed me out for reporting the leak to ConEd instead of going directly to him first (because then he could have used his unlicensed guys). Other people in the building said he was trying to all the tenants to go electric — in an old Brooklyn warehouse with no insulation or modern heating. The only heating alternative he could offer was little space heaters he got off Amazon, and he refused to educate himself about heat pumps.

Eric_WVGG 5y ago

I do live in NYC. "Awesome" isn't quite the term I'd use… he's highly motivated to get gas out of this building (one highly illegal piece of plastic ductwork from Czechoslovakia was found in our system — had there been a fire and this piece melted, BLAMMO). Personally, I am convinced by recent studies that indoor gas is just blanket bad for health, so I was quite happy to cooperate. https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602/gas-stove-cooking-indoor-air-pollution-health-risks https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/5/7/21247602...

inglor_cz 5y ago
"one highly illegal piece of plastic ductwork from Czechoslovakia" Just wow, that is the last context in which I expected to see the name of my long defunct country of birth.
atombender 5y ago
NYC landlords seem to be eager to get rid of gas because of the maintenance costs. For one, they have to use licensed gas line plumbers to service the building, and there are all sorts of safety regulations that have to be followed, all of which adds to the cost. The city takes gas extremely seriously, as does ConEd, and the latter will shut down an installation that isn't considered safe. My apartment had a small gas leak on a gas furnace connection inside the apartment, and ConEd came and locked the gas meter. My landlord dragged his feet for more than a year because a plumber would cost him around $2,500 to inspect the equipment and do the necessary DOB paperwork. He actually chewed me out for reporting the leak to ConEd instead of going directly to him first (because then he could have used his unlicensed guys). Other people in the building said he was trying to all the tenants to go electric — in an old Brooklyn warehouse with no insulation or modern heating. The only heating alternative he could offer was little space heaters he got off Amazon, and he refused to educate himself about heat pumps.