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AutomationBias t1_iqye8pi wrote

Reply to comment by Pretty_Bed1983 in Apt. Heating Question by [deleted]

Yeah, unfortunately there’s no right to being comfortable. You’ve got a case if cranking the heat doesn’t get you to 64 where you sleep, but otherwise I think you’re out of luck. I know exactly what kind of heater you’re describing, too - I rented an apartment that was exactly the same setup. I ended up sleeping on a couch by the furnace during the winter.

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Pretty_Bed1983 t1_iqyerpb wrote

You did?!? Do you know what the type of heater is called? I've never seen this before in a residential unit. I thinkkkk this house might possibly have been used as some type of office or commercial (or maybe combination business & residential) building at one point. The house was built in the 1800s I know and there's like those old EXIT type signs that you'd see in buildings from the 60's/70s.

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NoMoLerking t1_iqyo5df wrote

It’s a direct-vent space heater. I dated a girl that had an apartment heated the same way. Both bedrooms faced the living room so she and her roommate slept with their doors open in winter and a fan in each doorway blowing out (figuring the air at the floor was colder so it should blow toward the heater…no idea if it helped).

They heated (and humidified!) the kitchen with a giant lobster pot full of water over a burner on low. Good times.

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