Thursday, January 9, 2025

HEAT (or lack of it)

Stellar's system apparently takes an average of temperatures in the building (using those little boxes put in some apartments) and provides heat accordingly. 

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Our apartments are supposed to be heated to 68° during the day (6 AM to 10 PM) and 62° at night (10 PM to 6 AM).  

But many tenants on the top floor are chilled - and even some lower floor tenants are too cold. 

So:
  • Check the temperature in your apartment. You can get a digital thermometer and put it in the middle of any particular room.  If it's less than the legal temperature...
  • Call 311 and put in a heat complaint.  Send the complaint number to sue dot susman AT gmail dot com.
If you're on the 15th floor, use a heater.  If you don't have one, ask Stellar to provide one. (They might have a few for these apartments.) Then make sure Stellar gives you a discount on your electric bill - as Sako said they would.  We don't have any amount or percentage yet!