Calling all plumbing experts!<\/p>\n
I have a gas-powered hot water heating system in my 4 story brownstone. Two of my tenants have turned down individual radiators (one because she doesn’t like too much heat in her bedroom and the other because they want to keep electronic equipment on top). I’ve encouraged this practice due to my memories of having to keep my windows wide open all winter long back when I was a renter in a tenement, and assuming that turning down individual radiators either saves or at least doesn’t waste energy.<\/p>\n
Now I learn that my third floor tenant’s living room radiator isn’t working. I bleed and bleed and bleed, and hot water comes out but the fins don’t warm up. I am wondering if this is because the top floor tenant keeps his living room radiator turned down.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Calling all plumbing experts! I have a gas-powered hot water heating system in my 4 story brownstone. Two of my tenants have turned down individual radiators (one because she doesn’t like too much heat in her bedroom and the other because they want to keep electronic equipment on top). I’ve encouraged this practice due to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55269,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-52352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plumbing"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/12\/turning-off-ind\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"turning off individual radiators in hot water system?","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/12\/turning-off-ind\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/12\/turning-off-ind\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Plumbing","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"PHeights Lurker"}],"creator":["PHeights Lurker"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-12-27T11:04:40Z","datePublished":"2010-12-27T11:04:40Z","dateModified":"2010-12-27T13:24:58Z"},"rendered":"