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It's true that the municipal heating services turn the heat on but there are definitely dials you can turn - I lived in four different commie blocks and in ever
by Tade0 3y ago
It's true that the municipal heating services turn the heat on but there are definitely dials you can turn - I lived in four different commie blocks and in every one the radiators had dials. Nowadays they even have wireless sensors to bill you for the heat you actually used and of course enforce the requirement to have them on most of the time so as to not become a heat sink.
They've proven particularly useful when due to a mistake in reading the apartment plan the workers installed the radiator meant for the living room in my room.
- Muromec 3y agoThis sounds like a difference between ussr proper and the more broader “eastern block”, as I haven’t seen a single dial on those things in a whole country. The fact you even meter those per-apartment makes me believe even more. The further western you go from the epicenter of this shitshow, the more amenities those things get
- Tade0 3y agoThat might be it, as the mentioned commie blocks I lived in are all in Poland. I don't know if the dials were there during communism as well, but I remember noticing that the radiator in my school did not have one (save for a hex key valve) and thinking it was unusual, so they were already common in the mid 90s.