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No heating and 23 degrees inside the apartment?

26 replies

Sonjing · 27/10/2018 23:07

It is 4 degrees where I live, the heating is not on (central heating, LL has yet to turn it on for the whole building this year) and it is 23 degrees inside my flat. Toasty warm.

How is physically possible? Anyone who knows a bit about buildings and insulation? Is this even normal?

In all the places where I previously lived I would have been freezing with that temperature outside and no heating.

I am really confused 

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Notcontent · 27/10/2018 23:08

I think the heating must be on.

Original poster
Sonjing · 27/10/2018 23:09

I swear it is not! It is floor heating and the floor feels "cold" (as in not warmer than the rest of the apartment).

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Ollivander84 · 27/10/2018 23:09

I've no heating on and my ground floor apartment is around 20c

IsTheRainEverComingBack · 27/10/2018 23:10

Which flat are you? When I lived in a middle terraced maisonette (another flat below and one each side) I hardly needed any heating because the heat rose from below and through the walls

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Sonjing · 27/10/2018 23:11

I am on the GF but sandwiched between two buildings, so only the front and the back of the flat are exposed to the outside.

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PickAChew · 27/10/2018 23:13

We were without heating for a week in our last house, a mid terrace, at the end of February, one year, and it didn't get below 19.

Now in a 30s semi and it gets fucking freezing.

PiperPublickOccurrences · 27/10/2018 23:16

Is it a modern or recently renovated building which is insulated to within an inch of its life? Our loft bedroom is so toasty due to thick insulation that we have to sleep with the window open year round or it's unbearably hot.

CountFosco · 27/10/2018 23:19

How old is your building, if it's a modern well insulated building it should lose very little heat and there will be a bit of a greenhouse effect as well.

Dowser · 27/10/2018 23:20

I’m in a static caravan. We’ve had to switch out central heating off
As we have a leaky radiator

We have two electhewters going In the lounge...we’ve just reached 23
The bedroom with a much smaller unit going is about 18
You’re very lucky 👍

Dowser · 27/10/2018 23:21

Oh bollox..electric heaters

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Sonjing · 27/10/2018 23:25

The building is from the 60s or 70s, but I think the unti was renovated 4/5 years ago and the windows appear to be new and sturdy with double glazing. Maybe that is why..

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RLOU30 · 27/10/2018 23:25

Same here no heating and is 24 in my flat. Mind you it was 33 in the summer and I was struggling

ErrolTheDragon · 27/10/2018 23:42

My guess is your neighbours must be heating their apartments with electric heaters and you're getting the benefit. The other possibility is if it's sunny and you're getting a lot of thermal gain that way. You won't be losing heat to the sides, and not too much upwards compared with a house or top floor.

EnidButton · 27/10/2018 23:48

I'd say your neighbours on either side have their heating on a lot. Some of the warmest houses I've been in have been terraced houses because the heat from neighbour's houses leak a bit into each others. Plus the very thick Victorian/Edwardian walls.

Our detached is bloody freezing without the heating on. Modern insulation my backside.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 27/10/2018 23:54

The ground still has a lot of heat left over from summer. Our shower has a temperature guage, and the cold water is still coming into the house at around 16-18 °C.

AngeloMysterioso · 28/10/2018 01:38

I’ve got you beat- it’s 24.5 in mine! We hardly ever have our heating on Grin. We’re on the top floor of a block of flats so get all the heat from below, the roof is black so on sunny days we get heat from above, and we have floor to ceiling windows so when the sun shines in the place basically turns into a greenhouse. The summer heatwave was absolute hell but it comes in handy in winter!

Toddlerteaplease · 28/10/2018 01:49

My friend used to live in a 60's tower block and never had the hearing on as it was warm enough (for him)

wowfudge · 28/10/2018 05:23

Heat from the sun through the windows is called solar gain.

TheFifthKey · 28/10/2018 05:40

I live in a three story modern townhouse, and I sleep with the window open all year round. The thermostat is set to 16 because if I go nuts and put the heating on to 18, it gets so warm people start stripping layers off and sweating like crazy! I don’t know what temperature it really is but about ten minutes of heating on warms the whole big house. I just think it’s how modern buildings are.

Vitalogy · 28/10/2018 05:55

The thing is you need to be able to control your own apartment temperature. Are there vents? Air conditioner type things?

DBN1 · 28/10/2018 06:11

AngeloMysterioso don't you find that the cold comes in from all the glass though? We've got floor to ceiling too, way too hot in the summer and now getting bloody cold at night!
We've got blinds not curtains, I think this could be the problem.

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Sonjing · 28/10/2018 07:20

The weird thing is that during summer time it was cooler inside than outside (where I live it got pretty warm, up to 32/33).

I sometimes slept with the windows open and it was really comfortable, not too hot at all!

I moved into this apartment in July, so this is the first Autumn/ Winter that I experience here.

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DaysDragonBy · 28/10/2018 07:24

Neighbours. If your top neighbours are heating then no heat will escape upwards.
Then you have from both sides.
What is underneath you?

fussychica · 28/10/2018 07:44

Solar gain is called free heat in our houseSmile.

We live in a 70s detached bungalow with big double glazed windows and great insulation. It's the only house I've lived in where I've never been cold and that includes the 8 years I spent living in southern Spain.

AngeloMysterioso · 28/10/2018 09:12

DBN1 It certainly doesn’t seem to! We’ve got blinds as well. It only cools down if we actually open the windows otherwise it just stays hot.

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