Food and drink
There are spices, seasonings and seasonings that help start the heating process in the body. The most common are hot pepper, ginger, cinnamon, curry, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, horseradish and mustard. With their help you can prepare a variety of warming dishes. For example, fusion with elements of Indian cuisine (for example, chicken curry) or Mexican (such as bean soup with chili). And in between meals, warm up with tea with lemon, honey and ginger or non-alcoholic mulled wine.
Central heating
Maybe, before choosing an alternative way to heat your home, it’s worth learning a little more about what you already have and the opportunity to save on it. For example, a heating device for an apartment building with a heat exchanger. With centralized heating of housing, a boiler room is installed for several houses. From it, heat is distributed through pipes into buildings.
If each consumer has a heat exchanger installed in their home, they will be able to influence the quantity and quality of heat in their apartments, provided that their radiators have thermostats.
The quality of the heating system elements plays no less a role than the heat exchanger in the matter of economy. The design of an apartment heating radiator is no exception.
There is a large selection of heating batteries on the domestic market, which differ not only in technical characteristics, but also in the material from which they are made, size and even color.
You can save a lot on heating your home by first investing in new radiators. As practice shows, bimetallic models are in greatest demand, despite the fairly high cost. They are not only durable, safe and beautiful, but also withstand pressure drops of up to 16 atmospheres, are not demanding on the coolant and are very efficient.
Sometimes it is enough to change the batteries in the apartment in order to pay 50% or more less for heating your home in all subsequent years. It is much easier to coordinate such work with the management company than when abandoning centralized heating, and by choosing the best option for radiators, the issue of heating costs will be closed for a long time.
Another type of savings with conventional heating is the transition to horizontal heating in the apartment. The beam system is especially popular among consumers. Not only does it have no drawbacks and provides residents with high-quality heat, but it also looks aesthetically pleasing, since all pipes are retracted into the floor.
Currently, more and more houses with vertical distribution are switching to horizontal collector (radiant) heat supply. This is not cheap, but it allows residents to monitor the quality of home heating and significantly save on heating costs in subsequent years.
You can also significantly reduce heating costs by knowing how to increase the efficiency of the heating battery in your apartment. A good and easy way to do this is to install a screen behind it. They can be foil or any metal plate. You can buy a ready-made screen in a store.
This minor addition will allow the heat to remain in the room rather than escaping into the wall. Moreover, the screen itself, heated by heat from the radiator, begins to transmit it to the room. The savings reach 15%.
In conclusion, we can say that modern residents of apartment buildings have a choice of how to heat their homes, and it is significant. It all depends on the price, desire and amount of time invested in this issue. For some, it is enough to insulate their apartment in order to pay less; for others, they are ready to free themselves from the “bondage” of centralized heating and install an autonomous heat source. Only after studying all the options can you find the best one for yourself.
How to care for windows so they last a long time
When dirty, you need to wipe the glass and window sill with a soft cloth soaked in soapy water, or use products designed for cleaning windows. Do not use scratching sponges or powders, acids, or alkalis.
Internal parts, mechanisms, hinges, seals - if they are of high quality - are lubricated in production with special materials. If the apartment is undergoing renovation, it is better to cover the windows with film to protect them from construction dust, advises Stanislav Averkin. About twice a year you can apply silicone grease to the fittings (approximately 100 ₽ per bottle).
Good windows - if high-quality installation was done - can last about 10 years, after which, most likely, the fittings will need to be replaced.
Let's figure it out first
So, there is a fact, it’s cold in the apartment, either he went home or into the barn. Sometimes it's warmer in the garage. Let's find out the cause of the cold in the apartment. There is central heating, they even increased the radiators, adding three sections in each room. We hoped that next winter it would be warmer. Did not help. The batteries did not get any warmer. Even if you cover all the walls with them, the water in them is a little warm.
The windows of the house are glazed to the north, three panes each. Particular attention was paid to insulating the windows, making sure that all possible cracks were not sealed so that it would not blow or draught. Nothing helped. So we lived all the years in the cold. True, in recent years, in the winter there was a potbelly stove in the kitchen. The pipe went into a vent.
Of course, you can't do that. Risk of fire. But after we checked the entire ventilation shaft, we were convinced of the sufficient fire safety of our heater. However, I want to tell everyone again that you shouldn’t do this. For this stove, one wooden bottle box was enough to warm soup and boil tea. Then close the door to the kitchen, warm up so that you can safely go into the cold rooms. True, already in the spring, when they decided to burn old newspapers, a window was open on the top floor, and the smoke from our stove was drawn into the apartment above.
Deal with batteries
If the heating season has already begun, and the radiators remain cold (or barely work), then contact the management company (MC) that services your home. In Moscow, for example, the telephone number of the management control room can be found on the “House of Moscow” website. Tell the dispatcher your address and problem - they will send a specialist to your home to help solve it.
According to official standards, the air temperature in the apartment should not be lower than 18 degrees Celsius. If the house is colder, then call a representative of the management company - he will issue a statement with which you can recalculate payments for heating or maintenance of the house.
Source: rg.ru.
Buy a heater
Heaters differ in their operating principle - their cost also depends on this. They mostly run on electricity, so you'll need a free outlet.
- Fan heaters
are cheaper than others. They blow out a stream of warm air - the room heats up quickly, but unevenly. Among the disadvantages: fan heaters are noisy, dry the air very much, collect dust and over time begin to emit an unpleasant odor. The cost of fan heaters on Yandex.Market starts from 470 ₽. - Convectors
convert cold air into hot air. They operate silently, heat the room fairly evenly, and they also have a thermostat function that helps maintain the desired temperature in the room. Cons: convectors “burn” a lot of electricity and heat up slowly. The cost of convectors with normal power is approximately from 1 thousand rubles. - Oil radiators
look like an iron accordion filled with mineral oil, which is heated by electricity. Such heaters are silent, take a long time to heat up and cool down. Their cost is from 1–1.5 thousand rubles. - Infrared heaters
warm a room using infrared rays, which is why they glow orange-red. Silent and fast. Price - from approximately 600 ₽.
Electric heating pads
In the second half of September in the evening in your own unheated apartment, another electrical device will help you warm up - a heating pad. Typically, heating pads have a medical function and are used to warm up some part of the body that requires heat therapy. But they can also be used for purposes other than their intended purpose, if the situation forces it.
Most modern electric heating pads, which are available on pharmacy shelves, have a special temperature regulator. By setting it to the minimum value, you can create a completely comfortable atmosphere in your bed, which will allow you not to freeze on a September night.
Do not despair if even the minimum setting in the electric heating pad turns out to be too hot for you. The heating pad can be placed not in its traditional place under the sheet, but on top, on the blanket. In this case, it will give you less heat, which will partially escape into the atmosphere, and you will not experience overheating.
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How to make the floor warmer
5. Cover the floors with carpets. There is nothing more unpleasant than standing barefoot on a cold floor in the morning. In addition to feeling great, rugs also provide an extra layer of insulation that keeps cold air from rising up from the floor, which means your feet will thank you.
6. Use a sealant (cotton wool or foam, for example) to seal any cracks in the windows. After this, cover the cracks with strips of cotton fabric (the width of each strip is 4-5 cm). This will prevent heat from escaping from your home.
7. It is advisable to have thick, massive doors in your house that will keep you a lot of heat. You can also upholster an old front door with leatherette filled with foam padding.
It is advisable to plaster all cracks with polyurethane foam. If you decide to install a new door, then see if you can keep the old one, because... two entrance doors create an air gap between themselves, and it insulates heat.
Legislation
- The Civil Code of the Russian Federation regulates relations in the field of property, non-property and intellectual rights, property, and contractual obligations.
- The Housing Code of the Russian Federation establishes criteria for the quality of service provision in housing and communal services.
- The Federal Law “On the Protection of Consumer Rights” dated 02/07/1993 No. 2300-1 regulates the rules of interaction between sellers (suppliers) and buyers, defines the concept of quality of services and products, and prescribes the ZPP mechanism.
- Federal Law “On the procedure for considering appeals from citizens of the Russian Federation” dated May 2, 2006 No. 59-FZ is applied in the case of complaints about the work of state, municipal or private enterprises.
- Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation dated May 6, 2011 No. 354 “On the provision of utility services to owners and users of residential premises in apartment buildings” defines the criteria for the quality of utility resources, the procedure for their payment and provision, the responsibilities of the parties, and the practice of recalculation.
