Ground floor apartment here. Winter is hell, the storage area in the basement below us is unheated, so the apartment feels like Siberia. Summer is glorious though, nice and cool even in the middle of the most brutal heatwave.
Comment on xkcd #3099: Neighbor-Source Heat Pump
ccunning@lemmy.world 2 days ago
This was one of the best parts of apartment living
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Same. We live between two floors. Heat rarely is put on, because stove, fridge and dishwasher are enough to supplement what the sandwiched apartments floors already provide
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We live between two floors.
I saw this in Being John Malkovich but didn’t realize it was a thing in real life. So, like, you live on the 9 1/2 floor or something?
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Ha. Meaning we aren’t ground floor or top floor, we are sandwiches between two other floors. Barely need to add heat aince we share all the heat that the building has
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
awww… that’s disappointing.
duhbasser@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Yea for real. I live on the middle-ish levels (10-17th floors) and never use the heat. Winter time, my apartment gets heat from the lower areas and sun is hitting my windows from sun rise to sun down, so I actually have to turn on the A/C in the winter cause it’ll get to 75-78. Summer time, the sun is higher up in the sky so it doesn’t shine directly into the apartment so the A/C gets a break.
That all said, fucking Spring and Fall are a bitch cause the sun is shining directly into my eyes, so I gotta shift around during the day and I gotta adjust the A/C like every hour, cause I’m too hot or too cold
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Have you heard of blinds?
duhbasser@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Yes I have heard of blinds. This is a rental and they installed one of those pulley system blinds (white shades) so I’d either have to ask them to swap them for darker ones (they won’t do that) or install my own blinds and pay for it out of pocket. Any more suggestions?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
For a rental? Heavy curtains but those make the room dark.
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BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 1 day ago
mine sucked, hot as fuck in summer and the air conditioner was so loud you couldnt hear a regular conversation
Goretantath@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Except for when the people below you are ancient and run the heater in the SUMMER…
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
25 degrees C is the perfect bedroom temperature at 2 am, isn’t it?
Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I prefer 293.15 K for sleeping but to each their own.