I’m staying in an apartment temporarily and I have absolutely no idea how it is heated. It’s a two-bedroom apartment. There is no thermostat. There are no vents. There is one radiator in the apartment’s living room, at the front and down the hall from the bedrooms, and one radiator in the bathroom.

I have felt every wall in my bedroom. All of them are cool. The floor is also a normal temperature.

And yet, despite it being at or below freezing most nights in the past month, I can be in my bedroom without a shirt on and be comfortable. It might be nice to be a little warmer, but I don’t feel cold or anything.

I am mystified. How is it being heated?

  • Flying SquidOP
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    22 days ago

    I am not on the ground floor, and I thought maybe it would be some under-floor heating thing like you are saying, but I have walked all over the room in bare feet and felt no heat in the floor.

    • CaptainBlagbird
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      2 days ago

      I have floor heating, and have set it to very low (almost off). It’s freezing outside, but in here I can walk around in t-shirt and barefoot. The floor does not feel warm, it just doesn’t feel really cold.

      Maybe that’s the the same case for your apartment. Though I don’t know why there would also be radiators in the living room and bathroom. Maybe the heat from below is just warm enough to have the same effect.

    • elmicha
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      32 days ago

      If everything is already warm enough, there’s no need to add additional heat.