River Lofts Heating/AC

Submitted by Ok_Contract1672 t3_120d7ea in rva

I don’t even know if this is the right place to post this, but does anyone else who’s living in the river lofts have an issue with the heat? It’s always hot in my apartment; I’ll leave my windows open all night and day while it’s freezing outside just to still sweat in my apartment. And I’ll have the heater off. Now that it’s warming up outside, the heat inside is just getting worse!

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thevampirechrysalis t1_jdhg20v wrote

Is there an apartment below you? I'm asking because our apartment gets hot as hell from our downstairs neighbors having their heat on. When they go out of town and turn the heat off it's much more tolerable. Heat rises. Maybe that's why it's so hot in your place?

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dreww4546 t1_jdhnrqy wrote

If there isn't good insulation, the bottom floors freeze and crank up heat and the upper floors swelter and open windows, causing the lower floors to set heat even higher and....

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meskigski t1_jdhehfz wrote

Is there a thermostat in your apartment? Are you in the loft?

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Ok_Contract1672 OP t1_jdi7fhb wrote

I’m in lucky strike

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meskigski t1_jdigeqy wrote

That doesn't help me. Is there a thermostat in your apartment? And is your bedroom up in a loft?

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Ok_Contract1672 OP t1_jdq6dii wrote

No it isn’t a loft even though I have high ceilings but yes I do have an individual thermostat

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meskigski t1_jdqfxo5 wrote

Seems you've got it fixed. A lot of times, especially in lofts, the thermostat is so isolated that it maintains the temperature where it's located, but the rest of the house is like 10 degrees hotter. Usually you set it to a lower temperature so it'll balance out the apartment, but then the thermostat area is cold. It's a losing battle, especially in some of the old, high ceiling, poorly insulated warehouses they turn into apartments here.

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Ok-Section-9438 t1_jdildka wrote

I have the same issue. I can’t even open my windows because of the construction. ( my apt faces Bainbridge) I’m moving because of the noise it finally pushed me over the edge.

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RVAJTT t1_jdlqkwb wrote

I lived in Lucky Strike facing south for a bit. I loved the view but the apartment was always hot. I only had to turn my heat on once or twice in the couple years I lived there and that was after several cloudy cold days in a row. I think between the bricks absorbing the suns heat and the giant windows it was a bit like a brick oven/greenhouse. I complained time and time again and they would come out and “service” my A/C but sometimes it would run non stop and struggle to keep it below 75*F even in the spring and fall.

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Ok_Contract1672 OP t1_jdj8avj wrote

Update yall: apparently my filter was filthy and my AC was frozen. They told me to turn the fan on Auto, Heat on, to 75 for ten minutes. Then cut it off, let it rest for around an hour. Then set it back to AC around 70.

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