It’s illegal to turn off the heat between 1 October and 30 April - the apartment has to be able to be heated to 20° at minimum. Outside of this period the heating has to be turned on if an external temperature of 17°C isn’t reached for three consecutive days. In my area of the country at least that means that landlords had to turn on the heat last weekend.
Of course being in a position to afford using the heat is another thing, although a lot of people are still on older price contracts for gas and electric so it’s not as bad as it’ll get just yet. The Gasumlage isn’t helping either (tldr it’s an extra fee on top of the gas price to help all the poor gas companies make ends meet).
The Ampel Koalition has been absolutely disastrous for this country, but what did we expect?
Didn’t know it was illegal, but it’s not October yet and the weather here (nrw) is still warmish, so we will see if they follow the law. Thankfully they are not scumbags and we never had any problems with them, so I think they will turn it on when it gets colder. But like I said, I’m preparing for a cold winter :/
It’s illegal to turn off the heat between 1 October and 30 April - the apartment has to be able to be heated to 20° at minimum. Outside of this period the heating has to be turned on if an external temperature of 17°C isn’t reached for three consecutive days. In my area of the country at least that means that landlords had to turn on the heat last weekend.
Of course being in a position to afford using the heat is another thing, although a lot of people are still on older price contracts for gas and electric so it’s not as bad as it’ll get just yet. The Gasumlage isn’t helping either (tldr it’s an extra fee on top of the gas price to help all the poor gas companies make ends meet).
The Ampel Koalition has been absolutely disastrous for this country, but what did we expect?
Didn’t know it was illegal, but it’s not October yet and the weather here (nrw) is still warmish, so we will see if they follow the law. Thankfully they are not scumbags and we never had any problems with them, so I think they will turn it on when it gets colder. But like I said, I’m preparing for a cold winter :/