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Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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It’s way easier to just spoof the thermostat into thinking it’s hotter/colder. In the summer put a table under the thermostat and light a candle so the hot air makes the thermostat turn on the ac. In the winter hang a ziploc bag with icy water over the air inlet for the thermostat to turn on the heat.
They’d be better off cranking the oven up with the door open. The burners are resistive heating elements, sure – but they’re designed to conduct heat, not radiate it. The oven is designed to radiate heat.
For true redneck you’d need a 1970s era all metal oscillating fan (with no guard) sitting on the open oven door. For additional hold-my-beer points the power cord should have no plug, just two bare wires (3-4 inches of exposed copper) shoved directly into an outlet.
Put a pot of water over it, you’ll get the same heating benefits and you won’t have super dry air. Your skin will thank you.
I do the same thing but with the oven LOL
The other thing to do is if the bathroom has a window and an outside wall, start a piss jug. Go in the bathroom and open the window up and put an extra mattress against the door to keep some of the cold out of the rest of the place and when all the pipes in the bathroom are good and frozen, close the window, put the mattress back and after the water starts leaking, call him in the morning. A couple bouts of that ought to teach him that heat is less expensive than flooding and plumbers.
Why are you posting a screenshot of a post on reddit, on reddit? Just link to the actual post itself..
https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/allsqm
Throw some pots of water on there and you got a stew goin.
Edit: through to throw
When we were kids and our gas got shut off our mom would just use the oven..much more efficient in heating the house since it’s actually designed to radiate heat.
Honestly, as long as no one touches those burners, this is fine.
-40°? Celsius?!?!?
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We did this back in college when the heat went out on a Friday afternoon in winter and management said they couldn’t fix it before Monday.
We figured we could get the oven and two of the burners on before the breaker tripped, so that’s what we did — and took turns hanging out in the living room in case it decided to catch fire.
Don’t forget the oven, that’s another whole furnace right there. If you put it on broil, it will stay on with the door open!
Ps. Thanks for using Celsius
The fact no one is mentioning just running out to Home Depot and picking up a couple electric heaters is pretty funny.
Those dish looking ones are like 30$ sometimes and heat like a motherfucka.
They use crazy electricity, but that’s also the point in this situation…
u/bot-sleuth-bot
They own a fan but not a cheap space heater.
Bullshit.
If electricity was paid by landlord then 100% they got a space heater.
Heaters are cheap as fuck, skip the natty and go buy one.
I’ve had shit head tenants do this, not from me having any control over the thermostat, but from them being too lazy to refill the propane or the kerosene. Ended up damaging the microwave above it, and $1k electric bill (which they got to pay).
Edit: to be clear there are two separate sources of heat for the house. One runs kerosene/diesel and the second propane. Propane truck will come and refill the large tank. The fuel tank has to be refilled by going to station and bringing it back. Then pumping into the tank for the heater.
What about the oven or is that to over the top to do?
I’ve been there… not -40 tho
Meh, i could say jumper the Tstat or ahu board. Do this and run the fan. Let the LL pay for power.
My friend Larry heated his trailer with his electric oven and a fan for two whole winters
Space heaters exist..
Just get a space heater, they’re inexpensive. It would be so much safer and has a built-in fan
Why not just turn on the oven and open the door?
Used to do something similar, I’d open the oven door & let the box fan disperse the heat. Worked decently well.
My buddy’s parents rented to tenants once that stopped paying their rent in their rental house. We were scheduled to move into the house and when we showed up we found out their heater had died two months earlier. (Earlt December)
Well….their solution was to just keep running the hot water and steaming up the place. We get in and almost every wall is covered in mold. We had to postpone moving in to bleach and paint the walls….God we were pissed.
The best way to raise the heat is get pots of boiling water as you get heat from the stove, pot, water, and the steam. Also the humidity will raise the tempature of the house better than a conventional heater.
The oven would of been a better move
the is the oven not open too?
You can just turn the oven on. It will make your house pretty warm also.
Why didn’t they just turn the oven on for a while then off and leave the door cracked
Be like my highschool wrestling coach in summertime and shrink-wrap a bag of ice to the thermostat
I would have put a pan of water on one of the burners to put some moisture in the air since it would make you feel warmer.
Sorry I’m not American do landlords really have access to your heating remotely???!!
Lol, I used to live with this idiot who thought whatever temperature the house was at was good enough as long as it was acceptable to him. 3 other tenants and 2 of them were seniors. The seniors always had like 4 or 5 blankets wrapped around them, shivering in the winter. …. so I figured out if I stuck a Bobby pin in the plastic casing he had over the thermostat I could press the analog button and raise the temp. He kept asking if “anyone messing with the thermostat!?” After paying a few hefty heat bills in the winter, (we were nice and toasty) and nobody ratted me out. Fuck landlords who skimp on basic needs to save money. Don’t be a fucking landlord if you think sacrificing someone’s comfortability to save YOU money when they pay you rent each month is acceptable.
What’s wrong with buying a radiator or room heater, they aren’t that expensive.Â
I live in an apt, and radiators older than me still need to be turned on. My poor tropical/palms and cactus would have died if I had not spent $200 bucks at Home Depot for a space heater at 78F in Canada 24/7 to keep warm.
I’ve seen better crops during the Irish Potato famine…
An oil filled electric heater provides amazing radiant heat and they use very little electricity.
You would be better off buying a couple of electric oil filled heaters. They work great and are a bit safer than what you are doing now.
Mao had the right idea about landlords…Â
You could boil water to be more effective. You could also literally fill a pot with random rocks. They’d help radiate more heat
Put a pot of water on top bing bang boom instant humidifier to help with your stuffy nose in a dry winter
Ah, i remember years we survived only by space heaters and opening the oven, cuz I grew up in northern Idaho where it regularly gets to -20 in the winter.
If the landlord pays the electricity, he should heat his apartment by keeping the refrigerator door open.
Why not this:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/ProTemp-PT-53-240-Electric-Turbo-Heater-3000W-240V/743873943
Just be a true investor and bend the fittings so the coils stand up more to make it more efficient
You know you could just call your local housing authority. It is illegal to not allow thermo control on basically any lease/rental within reasonable temps. It’s called the warranty of habitability.
Highly doubt they pay the electricity.Â