Would changing radiator remedy lack of heat?

SandiT

YES! It's like you've met my super @nicholasbonham-carter "learning nothing each time". It's just temporary bandaid fixes each time. It's so insulting that they expect ppl to live like this as they lie right in your face. AND they JUST raised the maintainence 3% last week. I think I heard one of the porters say that they changed it to a digital board last year. Around the same time I started having problems.

Tomorrow they're coming to expose me to several plumbers in my small apartment with no ventilation right now in the middle of a pandemic when they're not even saying they plan on fixing the heat. It's just for the noise. At this rate the problem won't be fixed for another 5 years.

SandiT

good question @pecmsg, seems like anything goes in this complex

SandiT

Yes, I understand @Ironman I wish the building cared enough to understand. Everything you've been saying is completely reasonable. It's like a breath of fresh air to hear people speaking sanely. For the past 2 years they've been giving me a the run around. I never imagined that was the case, but is is. They don't know what they're talking about, but they also know there is a deeper issue and don't want to resolve it.

mattmia2

Both those ac units are going to let a ton of cold air in, the way they are made they don't seal well at all. Get a big sheet of plastic and tape it back to the metal sleeve coming though the wall with something like tyvek joint tape or foil tape or take the grill off ant put the plastic over the front of it and tape it. all of the cracks and openings in and around the grill will leak. Are you putting the cover back on the convectors? They need the stack effect of the cover to draw air through them to get their full output.

SandiT

I understand @Zman I guess I'm judging by the temperature I would set it to when I lived in my house directly prior to this apt. In Sept or Oct I'd turn it up to 72 and I wouldn't touch it until May to shut it off. I kinda how what 72 feels like. Or I thought I did anyway.

SandiT

I didn't put the one in the bedroom back on @mattmia2 I'll do it now. And I gotta tell ya, there is no real draft coming from the A/C's it's mostly from the windows