CosmicSurfFarmer t1_j77xboq wrote on February 4, 2023 at 7:32 PM

Reply to comment by Excellent_Affect4658 in Is it normal for the heat to not be able to keep up with extreme cold? by SquashDue502

Talk to any heating professional- that’s not how it works. If you always designed for the extreme outlying days, then you have a grossly oversized system for the remainder of the year and are wasting a ton on unnecessary equipment. The design day temperature for Rockingham county is 0° for example. That is the standard that a system is installed and sized for. When it’s colder than that, you’re going to need to take supplemental measures.

Excellent_Affect4658 t1_j77xvya wrote on February 4, 2023 at 7:36 PM

And the landlord is required to provide them! So again, either the apartment is inadequate to state standards, or OP has not been shown how to keep it heated. Either way, the answer does not have to be “just suck it up and have a 55 degree apartment.”