Everyone should read the application, that's where I began.

I was recovering from Covid and was both contagious and brain foggy so I didn’t bother - we’ve had the super up here six times to “fix” the heat since I moved in 6 weeks ago. Won’t turn off won’t turn on back and forth forever. Finally get it working and then that happened. At one point a few weeks back it was 90+ inside so we left our AC units in, I put plastic and tape over those and then went back to bed. The list of things I want fixed before I pay for January is as long as my arm.

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Did you complain to the manager or just figure that the cold snap would pass? Do you recall at what outdoor temperature it started to not keep up?

I live in a condo with electric heating (forced air). On the days it dropped to 10 at night, the hvac heating couldn't get above 65 or so, even with the auxiliary heating kicking in.

I have a small electric space heater in bedroom and that kept me warm for a couple of days

Hadaway and shite, man!

A two head minisplit would be a fantastic solution for this apartment, but it's rather expensive and I do not believe the 60A electric service to the unit could handle the load. But I actually have not really looked into it even though I have been harboring fantasies of doing just that for my own apartment, mostly for the air conditioning. Our New Jersey electricity is so damn expensive I have a hard time believing that a minisplit can compete with gas no matter what they say.

Wow, thank you so much!! We will not go hungry.

Mine was set at 67 and 58 was the warmest I was able to get, however the thermo is in the small kitchen and directly next to the boiler so it’s cheating. The living room and bedrooms were significantly colder. My building is old and superbly shitty though.

Vegan AF on central in the Heights for fast food. Happy Vegan in Hoboken has good pastries. The Pet Shop is a bar downtown with good vegan bar food choices. Subia’s has more traditional vegan food and some comfort food options too like donuts. Plant Base which is on the other side of town has great tacos. A lot of the restaurants in JC have vegan options. I like Charritos vegan options in Hoboken. Those are the places off the top of my head that I’ve tried.

Why not both!

AFAIK there are still clothing drop offs behind the St Lucy's shelter on 16th St & Grove St.

Also for whoever keeps dumping their crap by the old Salvation Army on Erie St & 14th St: SALVATION ARMY IS CLOSED PERMANENTLY For real that area has become a strange dumping ground for people that can't figure out that Salvation Army is gone.

I know TJ-otakus generally can find out who does their private label stuff, have you thought about that? TJs has great chocolate babka sometimes & I found out it comes out of a place in Brooklyn so I can get it from the source if it's out of season at TJs

There are couple of donation boxes behind speedway gas station off Marin and 15th Just as you enter the Newport plaza parking lot. They are new (maintained by PSOA) and I dropped stuff 2 weeks back

Hah. Good tenants are worth their weight in gold; bad tenants are a leaky bag of shit. This is a much more expensive solution, but what about a heat pump to augment your hot water system. It'll take care of your air conditioning needs too, and you'll probably snag some sort of tax rebate.

The tank cannot be increased beyond where it is set. The water heater has a mixing valve for the domestic hot water so the tank temperature is irrelevant to it. If your water heater doesn't have a mixing valve it should, not only does it create effectively more hot water from your tank, but your tank should be set to at least 130 to eliminate the possibility of legionella breeding in your system.

There is one across the courthouse.

That’s two for JC eco 😮

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Definitely going to check this out

Thank you for this!!

I’ve got too many options now, I may just try them all out lol

This apartment pays for its own heat, I'm just trying to figure out whether the heating system I've installed is adequate even if it drops a few degrees under the most extreme circumstances.

Yeah, that's what I did in this unit before it actually had heat! The only heater it had was an old style 'gas on gas' stove with a convection heating unit on the side. The bedroom at the other end of the apartment got pretty cold and I provided an electric radiator. But electric radiator should not be part of the plan in my opinion.

But your response illustrates the conundrum I pointed out far up thread of where homeowners feel ok improvising while some renters feel their climate should be perfect no matter what's going on with the weather.

Years ago just after I bought a building and had the oil boiler replaced with gas I got a February call from a tenant saying it was freezing in the apartment. In a panic that the new boiler had failed I hustled up there with an infrared thermometer and found the apartment was 70° everywhere. The tenant was standing there in shorts and a tank top, and when I said the apartment was perfectly warm and maybe she should put on some clothes she screamed at me "that's bullshit!"

I second this opinion on The Hilltop -- we moved here 20 years ago from Paulus Hook. It's cheaper, quieter and way less floody than downtown -- stay away from garden-level apartments downtown and the lower-lying areas of Paulus Hook.