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?

  • K4mpfie@feddit.org
    532·
    2 days ago

    The floor is also a normal temperature.

    Sounds like floor heating. Heated Floors don’t really feel warm. They just don’t feel cold. From the temperature experience you are having, this sounds like the most likely case

      • eltrain123@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 days ago

        I had heated floors in a Chicago apartment. I would lay tomorrow’s clothes on the floor at night and they were toasty warm when I put them on in the morning. Then, I’d put my blanket on the floor when I left for work and it would be nice and warm when I was ready to jump into bed at night.

    • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      This. I have the same in my apartment. I think a large majority of apartments in my country has floor heating.

    • Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dkdansk
      3·
      2 days ago

      Exactly, properly set up underfloor heating in a well insulated room is not hot as it should be regulated on the return, ideally it’s only slightly warmer than the room temperature you’re trying to achieve.

    • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
      53·
      2 days ago

      Underfloor heating definitely makes a floor warm to the touch. Source: have it throughout the downstairs of my house and it comes on for an hour each morning.

      • GaMEChld@lemmy.world
        4·
        2 days ago

        There might have been advances to that tech, maybe it’s better thermally regulated now. My parents house had it in the kitchen and I think it was relatively new concept when house was built, I found the heat to be a bit uneven, a bit uncomfortable in some spots.

        • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
          3·
          2 days ago

          It was installed 3 years ago, so it’s pretty up to date. An hour in the morning warms the floor pretty uniformly, and keeps it at around 21 degrees C for quite some time.