EliotHudson t1_j28gddk wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:54 AM

Reply to comment by Blecher_onthe_Hudson in Did your heating fail to keep your temp up last weekend when it was below 10 deg? by Blecher_onthe_Hudson

You mentioned window air conditioners. Do you by chance still have them in the windows? Because when people forget to remove them from the windows during the winter season it’s like having huge holes in your walls.

Blecher_onthe_Hudson OP t1_j290nw9 wrote on December 30, 2022 at 2:59 PM

Lol, yes that's true, and I sometimes have to tell tenants to get their conditioners out. But no the the ACs are out. The really stealth heat leak is when people don't actually shut their windows all the way. They close it so that there's no opening at the bottom but very often the sashes are not meeting in the middle and air is blowing through. You have to be sure the two sashes are meeting properly and use the window locks which pull them together. Every fall I have to go around the house checking each and every window to make sure it's actually closed.