Is it cold enough for your heating yet ?

hollydolly

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Today has been sunny and warm in the sun at 65 F , but now as the sun is leaving us.. at past 4pm.. the temps have dipped quite sharply in just a few minutes, and now at 58 f or 14 C .. I nearly put the heating on.. instant reaction, but the cost of heating the house this year has risen almost 100 % from last year, so I have to think twice, and even 3 times before turning the heating on.

Instead I put a warmer sweater on..

Anyone got their heating on yet.. if not , what temps does it get to before you do..?
 

We are at that time of year when we don't need the heat at night & the a/c only comes on maybe once or twice during the day for a very short period of time. It works like that for about two months in the fall & two months in the spring. But if that should change during those time frames paying for comfort will take precedence.
 
hollydolly said:
is that like a whole building that has heat turned on like in Russia , ?
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this is a genuine question.. I have no real clue what a Condo is.. but I presume it's like an apartment building...and in Russia apartment buildings and communal buildings the heat is turned on at certain times of the year and turned off 6 months later regardless of the weather..

In Russian cities, most buildings are centrally heated by hot water flowing through pipes. The water temperature is the responsibility of a local boiler station or heat-and-power plant - one per neighbourhood or district. It supplies heat to cast-iron radiators (or increasingly in newly installed modern aluminium radiators) in flats when the average daily temperature outside stays below eight degrees Celsius for five days in a row.

As a rule, the heating season in the European part of Russia lasts from October until May, but it often happens that cold weather spells arrive sooner, when the heating has not yet been turned on. For instance, the Urals and Volga region already had snow in September 2019.

And in Moscow, the temperature plummeted to +5 in mid-September, and many residents are still waiting for their radiators in their flats to become warm. Yulia Petushkova lives in the Belyayevo district in the west of the city and she also has to patiently wait. "It's cold at work, it's cold outside and it's cold at home. From one cold place, I have to go to another cold place, through another cold place. They turned on the heating on on September 25, but it is still cold at home, although I can now sleep with two duvets rather than three!"

But that’s just one side of the story. As you know, the temperature in Russia can change suddenly and yesterday's frost may be followed by a sudden warm spell. But your home will remain HOT, because the authorities have already turned on the heating. The water temperature in the radiators is regulated centrally at boiler plants and you can't turn it up or down independently.

And when they do start supplying heating to Russian homes, they do it wholeheartedly. In major cities, for example, the water temperature is calculated automatically depending on the weather. And at small boiler plants it is done manually. In any case, during the heating season, according to the state norm, the temperature in an apartment should not fall below 18 degrees Celsius and in the bathroom it should be no less than 25 degrees. For living rooms the upper temperature limit is 24 degrees.

 
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We had a couple of chilly days when we turned the furnace on to warm the house up. Since then it’s mainly been in the low to mid 20s C and goes down to low single digits at night. The furnace is set to come on for 8 a.m. if it doesn’t reach a minimum temp inside. We use a programable thermostat.
 
jujube said:
It's going to be quite a while before we need the heating on here. December or January, maybe.
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In Southern Spain, it's still warm during the day right through until December or January... but the temps plummet at night.. and even tho' it usually only gets as low as 6 degrees, because the walls are not insulated and the house has all floor tiles, it feels much colder indoors..
 
hollydolly said:
this is a genuine question.. I have no real clue what a Condo is.. but I presume it's like an apartment building...and in Russia apartment buildings and communal buildings the heat is turned on at certain times of the year and turned off 6 months later regardless of the weather..

In Russian cities, most buildings are centrally heated by hot water flowing through pipes. The water temperature is the responsibility of a local boiler station or heat-and-power plant - one per neighbourhood or district. It supplies heat to cast-iron radiators (or increasingly in newly installed modern aluminium radiators) in flats when the average daily temperature outside stays below eight degrees Celsius for five days in a row.

As a rule, the heating season in the European part of Russia lasts from October until May, but it often happens that cold weather spells arrive sooner, when the heating has not yet been turned on. For instance, the Urals and Volga region already had snow in September 2019.

And in Moscow, the temperature plummeted to +5 in mid-September, and many residents are still waiting for their radiators in their flats to become warm. Yulia Petushkova lives in the Belyayevo district in the west of the city and she also has to patiently wait. "It's cold at work, it's cold outside and it's cold at home. From one cold place, I have to go to another cold place, through another cold place. They turned on the heating on on September 25, but it is still cold at home, although I can now sleep with two duvets rather than three!"

But that’s just one side of the story. As you know, the temperature in Russia can change suddenly and yesterday's frost may be followed by a sudden warm spell. But your home will remain HOT, because the authorities have already turned on the heating. The water temperature in the radiators is regulated centrally at boiler plants and you can't turn it up or down independently.

And when they do start supplying heating to Russian homes, they do it wholeheartedly. In major cities, for example, the water temperature is calculated automatically depending on the weather. And at small boiler plants it is done manually. In any case, during the heating season, according to the state norm, the temperature in an apartment should not fall below 18 degrees Celsius and in the bathroom it should be no less than 25 degrees. For living rooms the upper temperature limit is 24 degrees.
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Hols, the condo has control of the cooling/heating of the building. Each unit can set the temp to their
liking. We generally have ours turned down in winter, as we get residual heat from the units above and
below.
 
Apparently not. The landlord has not turned on the heat for the building. But I'm perfectly comfortable. I'm still enjoying my balcony in the day and evening.

The days are still plenty warm, although I see frost on roofs in the morning.

I don't want them to turn the heat on just yet. I want to have my windows open as long as possible!

Local folklore says winter starts after Halloween. Last year it was right on schedule. This year too, probably.
 
NorthernLight said:
Apparently not. The landlord has not turned on the heat for the building. But I'm perfectly comfortable. I'm still enjoying my balcony in the day and evening.

The days are still plenty warm, although I see frost on roofs in the morning.

I don't want them to turn the heat on just yet. I want to have my windows open as long as possible!

Local folklore says winter starts after Halloween. Last year it was right on schedule. This year too, probably.
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yes in the piece about Russia.. they say that sometimes when the communal hot water system which heats the pipes in Russia is turned on too early, they have the sitauation where people are walking around in T-shirts and have their windows wide open while the apartments are hot..
 
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