Renting a freezing cold flat!

rsgreen28 · 27-11-2012 8:10pm #1

hi im renting a freezing cold flat in boyle, im just wondering what can i do about this or what can i ask the land lord to do have i any right's, if i turn heat on for a few hours and thin turn it off again ill have a blanket back on me after 10 min,

Any help be great thanks

Fr_Dougal · 27-11-2012 8:14pm

Keep the heating turned on for the night, tis cold out there.

As a matter of interest, was the flat warm a few months ago?

3ndahalfof6 · 27-11-2012 8:15pm

small blow heater (not expensive) just have it in the room you are using, if you decide to move room take it with you.

in saying that if I was renting a freezing cold flat I would expect it to be that, if it was warm I would be kinda piiissed off.

rsgreen28 · 27-11-2012 8:18pm

it was warm when i moved in and was told its a nice warm flat and im not paying mental esb bills to keep warm, there has to be something that can be done can i ask him to do an energie rating or anything like that.?

El Guapo! · 27-11-2012 8:19pm

Put on a jumper.

3ndahalfof6 · 27-11-2012 8:22pm

Dean09 wrote: »

Put on a jumper.

so you want him to carry a body around with him.

Fr_Dougal · 27-11-2012 8:23pm

rsgreen28 wrote: »

it was warm when i moved in and was told its a nice warm flat and im not paying mental esb bills to keep warm, there has to be something that can be done can i ask him to do an energie rating or anything like that.?

Sounds as if you're experiencing something we call 'winter'. The last few nights have been very cold.

brimal · 27-11-2012 8:24pm

tell the landlord it is too cold to stay there and you will move out if he doesn't do something about it.

are the windows double-glazed? insulation in the walls? etc.

if he says he won't do anything about it, then find another flat - there are loads available these days.

frozenfrozen · 27-11-2012 8:25pm

You should be worried if it wasn't cold... I've got 2 t shirts and 2 hoodies on right now. It's cold out... How cold is your flat? Like is it see-your-own-breath cold inside? If not just man up and insulate yourself

El Guapo! · 27-11-2012 8:28pm

frozenfrozen wrote: »

You should be worried if it wasn't cold... I've got 2 t shirts and 2 hoodies on right now. It's cold out... How cold is your flat? Like is it see-your-own-breath cold inside? If not just man up and insulate yourself

Apt username is apt

3ndahalfof6 · 27-11-2012 8:29pm

frozenfrozen wrote: »

You should be worried if it wasn't cold... I've got 2 t shirts and 2 hoodies on right now. It's cold out... How cold is your flat? Like is it see-your-own-breath cold inside? If not just man up and insulate yourself

Let us know where you will be walking tonight so we can avoid.

LivelineDipso · 27-11-2012 8:32pm

Boyle is a very cold place in winter being so far from the ocean and the wind comes down off the Curlew mountains.

Is it a modern apartment?

I rented a place above a chipper in an old building in Longford a few years ago. Needed almost no heating a winter. A good tip for looking for a place to live in a provincial town. The old flats above the shops are usually much warmer in the winter. The new ones are cardboard walls.

Knasher · 27-11-2012 8:34pm

rsgreen28 wrote: »

can i ask him to do an energie rating or anything like that?

Any building that is rented since January 2009 is required to have a BER certificate which will tell you how energy efficient it is. You are entitled to see it so you can ask for it if you like. I don't know if you can do anything if you have already signed your lease without asking for it.

You have my sympathy though, the year we had that really bad winter I was living in an apartment with single pane windows. If you left the heating on constantly and didn't go too close to the windows, it was almost bearable.

antodeco · 27-11-2012 8:37pm

Is the flat really small?
When you close the front door do the lights go out?

If so, you're probably living in the fridge.

Hippies! · 27-11-2012 8:56pm

Did you ask to see the BER rating before you moved in OP?

No would be the answer there, tough sh*t I say.

WoollyRedHat · 27-11-2012 9:01pm

rsgreen28 wrote: »

hi im renting a freezing cold flat in boyle, im just wondering what can i do about this or what can i ask the land lord to do have i any right's, if i turn heat on for a few hours and thin turn it off again ill have a blanket back on me after 10 min,

Any help be great thanks

Put a jumper and a hat over the flat outside, if it's cold outside, well then inevitably it's going to be cold inside.

Hippies! wrote: »

Did you ask to see the BER rating before you moved in OP?

No would be the answer there, tough sh*t I say.

As in, Brrrrrrrrrrrr it's cold?

frozenfrozen · 27-11-2012 9:04pm

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

Put a jumper and a hat over the flat outside

Apt username is apt

Hippies! · 27-11-2012 9:04pm

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

As in, Brrrrrrrrrrrr it's cold?

As in, give the poor lad your wooly red hat

phoenix999 · 27-11-2012 9:07pm

Invest in one or two DeLonghi Dragon oil heaters, they could heat China. They are the job.

Fromthetrees · 27-11-2012 9:19pm

Hibernate in 14 sleeping bags.

WoollyRedHat · 27-11-2012 9:47pm

frozenfrozen wrote: »

Apt username is apt

Yes, it is quite fitting.

Hippies! wrote: »

As in, give the poor lad your wooly red hat

It doesn't come off.

hardCopy · 27-11-2012 9:56pm

Dean09 wrote: »

Apt username is apt

It's a flat not an apartment.

stateofflux · 27-11-2012 9:59pm

amateurs. my old georgian apartment has no central heating. it was so cold in my kitchen in 2010 that i could leave all the food out of the fridge.. olive oil had solidified & taking ones hand from under the covers in bed for more than ten seconds would cause skin to go blue.

KKkitty · 27-11-2012 10:04pm

Shouldn't you be Boyl-ing

Seriously complain to your landlord.

Sauve · 27-11-2012 10:06pm

stateofflux wrote: »

amateurs. my old georgian apartment has no central heating. it was so cold in my kitchen in 2010 that i could leave all the food out of the fridge.. olive oil had solidified & taking ones hand from under the covers in bed for more than ten seconds would cause skin to go blue.

I think you're the amateur here for putting yourself through that!

PucaMama · 27-11-2012 10:06pm

stateofflux wrote: »

amateurs. my old georgian apartment has no central heating. it was so cold in my kitchen in 2010 that i could leave all the food out of the fridge.. olive oil had solidified & taking ones hand from under the covers in bed for more than ten seconds would cause skin to go blue.

mine was the same. we got ice on the inside of the windows.

not yet · 27-11-2012 10:06pm

Break up a few pallets and burn them on the middle of the floor.....job done.

SafeSurfer · 27-11-2012 10:09pm

Days of speed and slow time Mondays -
Pissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday -
Watching the news and not eating your tea -
A freezing cold flat and damp on the walls -
That's Entertainment.

JonathanAnon · 27-11-2012 10:12pm

Get a skipping rope.. Really good for warming you up...

Spiritual · 27-11-2012 10:46pm

Get a girlfriend and a BER rating.

27-11-2012 10:49pm

Spiritual wrote: »

Get a girlfriend and a BER rating.

Girlfriends come with BER ratings now?

Shryke · 27-11-2012 10:53pm

I once rented a place that had bedrooms on the ground floor. This was during one of the freezing winters 3 or 4 years ago. My bedroom had a fcuking patio door out on to the back garden, which was itself pathetic. Needless to say it was an awful place. When the winter came the bedroom was an icebox. The shower broke and the management company were dicks. 3 weeks without a working shower! Didn't stay to finish the lease, obviously. Oh celtic tiger, I'm glad you're dead.

Spiritual · 27-11-2012 10:53pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Girlfriends come with BER ratings now?

Possibly, I'll ask the assessor if he can run his eye over you, but by all accounts you are a C. I would need at least a B+ :P :pac:

Seems you are an A+.

I couldn't afford the rent. So close to comfort.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 27-11-2012 10:57pm

Why dont you move somewhere warmer..............................................................................like Nigeria.

Capt'n Midnight · 27-11-2012 10:57pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Girlfriends come with BER ratings now?

Tell her about that time with her sister and things should hot up.

repsol · 27-11-2012 11:04pm

rsgreen28 wrote: »

it was warm when i moved in and was told its a nice warm flat and im not paying mental esb bills to keep warm, there has to be something that can be done can i ask him to do an energie rating or anything like that.?

There is something that can be done, MOVE! A BER rating will just tell you what you already know,that the flat is poorly insulated.

Casillas · 27-11-2012 11:07pm

repsol wrote: »

There is something that can be done, MOVE! A BER rating will just tell you what you already know,that the flat is poorly insulated.

Won't the OP need to give a months notice?

OP ask the landlord to provide you with a heater from Argos or somewhere. It'll only be till you move so the bill shouldn't be too awful. If you can't move invest in a good electric blanket for night-time and a warm winter jacket to wear during the day/evenings.

suicide_circus · 27-11-2012 11:11pm

Genuine question:

They have basic wee 2000w fan heaters in argos.
Can someone explain, using sience, if it is cheaper for me to turn on the heating (electronic) for an hour or a 15min blasht of such a fan heater, just to take the nip out of the air?

TheGunns · 27-11-2012 11:13pm

Id say buy a heated blanket. Im used to the cold at my house but going to bed with a heated blanket, gods gift to man

27-11-2012 11:19pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Girlfriends come with BER ratings now?

Mine is 'quite hot'. I'm hoping if I lose some 'insulation' my rating will increase.

Lenin Skynard · 27-11-2012 11:28pm

Get yourself some bowls of boil in boles of boyle.

RidleyRider · 27-11-2012 11:30pm

Just do a few things to keep in heat. Close vents, doors and that to prevent drafts.

Say it to the landlord too though about the BER and if that doesn't work accept the fact your a wuss and complaining of the cold in winter was a stupid thing to do..

Gran Hermano · 27-11-2012 11:56pm

Buy a tube of Deep Heat and apply liberally.

--LOS-- · 28-11-2012 12:07am

This is a pretty stupid thread, you should have had an idea how warm the place would be when you first looked at it, you can tell by how old the building is, wall depth, type of heating, is it just some old storage heaters etc. You agreed to rent the place, it's not the landlords fault. It is Winter ya know! Get a little fan heater, keeps doors between rooms shut, wear warm clothes......you don't have to spend a fortune on heating, turn down/off the radiators in the rooms you're not using during the day, get a hot water bottle for night time, move out and find a better place, do something.

Markcheese · 28-11-2012 12:08am

whoopsadaisydoodles wrote: »

Girlfriends come with BER ratings now?

Great idea , I mean she's hot now ... But how long will she stay hot for...?
Who do you appeal to if you wake up one morning and think what the f## have I done...

Paddy Cow · 28-11-2012 12:11am

rsgreen28 wrote: »

it was warm when i moved in and was told its a nice warm flat and im not paying mental esb bills to keep warm, there has to be something that can be done can i ask him to do an energie rating or anything like that.?

I expect you have storage heaters? If used properly, take the biting chill out of the air. I have storage heaters in my apartment. In the living room and hallway, they are the type of heaters which heat up during the night when electricity is cheaper and release it during the day. You need to leave these heaters on 24/7. If you don't, they will go stone cold and it will cost loads to keep reheating them.

The heater in the bedroom is likely electric. I think there is some law that they can't have storage heaters in bedrooms (or so I was told). The electric heaters are the worst as they eat electricity and so stone cold once turned off. At least with central heating and storage heaters they take awhile to cool down.

If you won't pay to keep warm, then there is nothing the landlord is going to do. As other posters have said, an energy rating won't make the apartment any warmer.

yermandan · 28-11-2012 12:12am

antodeco wrote: »

Is the flat really small?
When you close the front door do the lights go out?

If so, you're probably living in the fridge.

Post of the day tbh

falan · 28-11-2012 12:28am

Paddy Cow wrote: »

I expect you have storage heaters? If used properly, take the biting chill out of the air. I have storage heaters in my apartment. In the living room and hallway, they are the type of heaters which heat up during the night when electricity is cheaper and release it during the day. You need to leave these heaters on 24/7. If you don't, they will go stone cold and it will cost loads to keep reheating them.

The heater in the bedroom is likely electric. I think there is some law that they can't have storage heaters in bedrooms (or so I was told). The electric heaters are the worst as they eat electricity and so stone cold once turned off. At least with central heating and storage heaters they take awhile to cool down.

If you won't pay to keep warm, then there is nothing the landlord is going to do. As other posters have said, an energy rating won't make the apartment any warmer.

This^^. I have storage heating and its not so bad if used correctly. I have 2 switches on mine, I leave one switch on 24 hours,the other one is just used to give an odd blast of hot air. I also have one of those portable gas fires (orange bottle) that I use. A 30 euro bottle of gas does me 4 or 5 weeks...

Capt'n Midnight · 28-11-2012 1:08am

Gran Hermano wrote: »

Buy a tube of Deep Heat and apply liberally.

But wash your hands thoroughly before going to the toilet.,

pcash · 31-12-2014 4:03pm

rsgreen28 wrote: »

hi im renting a freezing cold flat in boyle, im just wondering what can i do about this or what can i ask the land lord to do have i any right's, if i turn heat on for a few hours and thin turn it off again ill have a blanket back on me after 10 min,

Any help be great thanks

buy a superser calor gas heater they are great a bottle will last about 6 to 8 weeks a bottle of gas is 35e well worth it

Sheep Lover · 31-12-2014 4:04pm

pcash wrote: »

buy a superser calor gas heater they are great a bottle will last about 6 to 8 weeks a bottle of gas is 35e well worth it

He's probably froze to death at this stage

Renting a freezing cold flat!

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