2 bedroom in my home don’t have heat, I talked to the landlord and he said?
Question by Joe B: 2 bedroom in my home don’t have heat, I talked to the landlord and he said?
I live in a 4 br house that I rent. I recently discovered there’s no form of heat that circulates to the 2 upstairs bedrooms. I talked to the landlord and he confirmed this, he said it was an addition and they never got heat up there.
His resolution, he gave me this guys number and told me to have him come out and give him an estimate on electric baseboard heat being installed in the 2 upstairs bedrooms.
We have gas heat in the rest of the house, if we have electric baseboard heat installed in addition the the gas he we already have is this going to make our bill outrageous?
Would I be better off financially just asking for 2 space heaters for the 2 upstairs bedrooms?
It just seems crazy that to heat this house I would be running 2 different heats at the same time potentially. My landlord is willing to work with me but I just want to make sure I make the right decision with regard to heat, is having a contractor come out and installed electric baseboard heat the best option?
I’m sure my options are limited finanically so he’s not going to go over the top, with this price range would you consider an alternate option in my shoes?
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Answer by sassy25
Either the space heaters or the electric baseboard is going to increase your utility bill. How could you have not noticed no heat when you rented.
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i’d go 2 the store & get some good space heaters OR u can move when yer term’s up.
if u were on sect 8 the LL could NOT do this. u NEED heat
Many homes have more than 1 source of heat. I have a propane wood stove for the basement. and electric baseboards everywhere else.
A couple of heaters for 2 rooms are not going to drastically increase your utility bill, but you will know they are there. If you like staying where you are, I recommend just get a couple of plug in heaters and use those. Putting fans in these rooms, or outside of the rooms will also circulate the air in the house and bring the warm air in.
Don’t phone the guy your landlord gave you the number for. It’s not your job as a renter to do this and bad things could happen if you gave him the go ahead to do this.
Unless the whole house is heated with electric your looking at some expensive heat bills either way. Why didn’t you notice there was no heat upstairs when you looked at the rental?