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What you call a reasonably managed apartment, I call an apartment woefully built without reasonable insulation between dwellings. If I leave for the winter, why
by dymk 4y ago
What you call a reasonably managed apartment, I call an apartment woefully built without reasonable insulation between dwellings. If I leave for the winter, why should I pay to heat a space I won't be in?
- krzyk 4y agoNormally apartments are built for living in them, and majority of dwellers don't leave it for more than vacations and holidays. Having thick isolation between apartments is a waste of resources in most cases - better to put on the whole building.
- nonethewiser 4y agoSo people in the UK aren’t allowed to lower their temps when they leave for vacation? Am I really supposed to believe this? I guess you’ll tell me you need a license to watch TV next.
- krzyk 4y agoI'm not from UK so can't answer that. But if you think logically, there are some things you can't do in apartment, e.g. listen to loud music at night, or drill holes when others might be sleeping. Turning down heating to zero is one of them. AFAIR in some places there is a limit of how low your heating should be and if it is lower then you still pay a given set price - this is to discourage cheaters.
- mgfist 4y agoThe added cost of the extra insulation likely outweighs the cost of you heating the apartment when you're not there.
- dymk 4y agoIt can't be both ways. Either the home is sucking up enough heat from the neighboring units to be significant, and so it warrants insulation, or it's not, in which case why would management care about something so tiny? Insulation is the first thing you do to improve the thermal characteristics of a home. It's not expensive.
- nonethewiser 4y agoBecause a subgroup of people got together and decided their interests are more important than everyone’s individual interests.