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Could be worse. I live in a city that has a centralised heating infrastructure (every building gets a hot water connection), and my apartment came equipped wit
by LeonM 5y ago
Could be worse.
I live in a city that has a centralised heating infrastructure (every building gets a hot water connection), and my apartment came equipped with a heat exchanger that connects to said heating system. I have to _lease_ this heat exchanger from the energy company, and I cannot opt out. The lease is like 50 euros per month, though the MSRP on the unit is only 400 euros or so. Then I still need to pay for actual heat consumption, which is also 3 times more expensive than a gas powered heater that is commonly found in my country.
- namibj 5y agoHere the district heating is substantially cheaper than a gas furnace, at least in operation. I believe you have to buy the infrastructure and pay for the pipe that goes from the nearest joint to your building, though. We don't do per-apartment heat exchangers, but rather one per building, typically with shared hot water radiators across all units in the building. Heat consumption is either estimated by a air/radiator temperature difference integrator on the radiator, or an electronic flow meter+temperature differential sensors on the unit's connection to the central hot water loop.