Within the span of two days, the temperature in my room dropped twenty degrees. While this might alarm most people, I should note that I keep my room between 75 and 80 degrees (radiators and a flat fee for utilities are my friends).
Apparently the boiler in our apartment building broke beyond repair. When I read this (it was on a letter to all tenants in the building), I assumed that it wasn’t beyond repair but rather they don’t want to continue paying to fix the old boiler. Either way, I and everyone else who lives in the building have been without heat since Tuesday.
Tuesday I saw their temporary fix for the situation. My roommate was asking me about a noise he heard from his room and we went to find the culprit. In the rear entry to our building was a large industrial blower with a huge length of tubing attached to it, leading into the basement. In the basement was an industrial space heater. The blower was blowing the heat from the basement up the stairs to the entryway. The entry way was warm. The rest of the building was not (this morning I touched the doorknob from my apartment to the entry way and felt it was hot to touch).
But they have also been working on the situation. My dad says they are legally obligated to do so, which makes sense to me. The system is being switched over to a forced air system, which means no radiators and most likely means no more 80 degrees. Don’t get me wrong, I will try my damnedest to get the heat back up.
On a final note, they are removing all of the old radiators from the building. Our apartment was being done today. Since I wasn’t around, I moved everything I had and was movable away from the radiator. This still left my desk and computer. I am worried that when I get home later today, my computer won’t be working like it was or at all because they ‘bumped’ it or something. I didn’t have this fear until I received a message earlier this morning from a roommate telling me that one of my routers no longer connects to the internet.
I will keep you posted if anything develops.