CeeScraps
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Post by CeeScraps on Jan 15, 2018 22:35:35 GMT
I haven't read all the comments, but I just asked my dh. Here's what he said..........someone has to follow the wires from the baseboard heater to a circuit breaker. That circuit breaker would have wires that go to a meter. If that meter isn't hers than she doesn't pay for the heat from the electric baseboard unit.
Go to her circuit breaker board there should be no double circuit breaker. Meaning there is a bar connecting 2 switches. If there is than either she has an electric stove or she is paying for her baseboard heat.
HTH! Ginger......
Oh, and I haven't a clue what I had in my apartment. I lived there before I met my dh!
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Post by fuji on Jan 15, 2018 23:52:35 GMT
We had hot water heat (steam??) at our old house and LOVED it! It was a consistent heat, and my house didn't need to be dusted as often. And we're in MN too.
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Post by cindyupnorth on Jan 16, 2018 0:17:49 GMT
I haven't read all the comments, but I just asked my dh. Here's what he said..........someone has to follow the wires from the baseboard heater to a circuit breaker. That circuit breaker would have wires that go to a meter. If that meter isn't hers than she doesn't pay for the heat from the electric baseboard unit. Go to her circuit breaker board there should be no double circuit breaker. Meaning there is a bar connecting 2 switches. If there is than either she has an electric stove or she is paying for her baseboard heat. HTH! Ginger...... Oh, and I haven't a clue what I had in my apartment. I lived there before I met my dh! Cee, thanks for the info! I think everything is wired in to the walls? So I don't know how she would follow wires?
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 16, 2018 4:04:55 GMT
New Info-DD emailed the apt manager. The baseboard is STEAM heat. hence the knob I was talking about. It sure doesn't feel like steam heat. So I guess we will have to believe them! But glad that's figured out now. That sounds like what my in-laws have in their home - the baseboards look identical to electric baseboards, but they actually have hot water/steam going thru them from a boiler in the basement. This is what we have in our house too. We have a boiler in the basement and the radiators look exactly like baseboard heaters.
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melissa
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Post by melissa on Jan 16, 2018 4:16:19 GMT
My dd had a similar arrangement in Ohio in her first apartment. Heat, hot water and basic wifi were included.
Her electric bills were usually less than $20 per month, up to $50 or 60 when she ran the AC.
She had no control over the heat. There was a knob on the radiator but it didn't do a darn thing. She sometimes needed to open the windows to cool off her 4th floor apartment! It was definitely not tied to her electric bill. I don't think it electric. Even if it is, if heat is included, then it should not be tied her to electric bill. There's likely a furnace or multiple furnaces/boilers for the building.
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Post by Basket1lady on Jan 16, 2018 5:40:16 GMT
We had steam-heated baseboard heat in our Boston house. It worked well and it wasn't as drying as forced air, since there wasn't hot air blowing around in the room. It was a more consistent heat. The real problem was the lack of insulation in that house, but hopefully that isn't an issue in MN. Only living there will tell and let's face it, she's young and it's a first apartment. Something is going to suck about it.
We've lived all over the country and my family (in Minneapolis) always has heating bills MUCH lower than what I pay in other parts of the country. It's obvious that insulation isn't a big deal. We live in VA now and our master bedroom is over the (unheated) garage. It's a good 5 degrees cooler in our bedroom vs the hallway right outside, and when the garage door goes up, it sounds like a freight train running through our bedroom. I'm not sure that there is a lick of insulation in the garage roof/bedroom floor. And our house is only 8 years old.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2018 5:52:33 GMT
Some places you have control ,some places you don't.
I know one above garage apt in butte where the land lord control the heat. The landlord would never let the heat get above 60. He started turning it down to the lowest setting. The renter started turning her oven on to heat the place.
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CeeScraps
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Post by CeeScraps on Jan 16, 2018 12:03:47 GMT
I haven't read all the comments, but I just asked my dh. Here's what he said..........someone has to follow the wires from the baseboard heater to a circuit breaker. That circuit breaker would have wires that go to a meter. If that meter isn't hers than she doesn't pay for the heat from the electric baseboard unit. Go to her circuit breaker board there should be no double circuit breaker. Meaning there is a bar connecting 2 switches. If there is than either she has an electric stove or she is paying for her baseboard heat. HTH! Ginger...... Oh, and I haven't a clue what I had in my apartment. I lived there before I met my dh! Cee, thanks for the info! I think everything is wired in to the walls? So I don't know how she would follow wires? Does she know where her circuit box is? Look there for the double breaker.
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peabay
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Post by peabay on Jan 16, 2018 12:09:40 GMT
Glad to hear it's steam. When we moved into our house we had electric baseboard heat. Holy crap, our electric bills from the winter were through the roof! We converted to a propane system a few years later.
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