Zweite Hitzewelle in 2 Wochen. Ich verstehe, dass die Deutschen aus vielen Gründen keine Klimaanlagen bevorzugen, aber das Wetter wird sich in den kommenden Jahren nur noch verschlechtern und Hitzewellen werden immer wieder auftreten.
Warum betrachten Vermieter Klimaanlagen nicht als einmalige Investition und berechnen uns vielleicht eine kleine monatliche Gebühr, wie sie es für die Heizung tun?
Ich bin gespannt auf Ihre Meinung, denn die Wohnungen fühlen sich bei diesem Wetter an wie Konvektionsöfen und man kann auch die Fenster nicht öffnen, sodass die Wärme darin eingeschlossen wird, da die Wohnungen hier so gebaut sind, dass sie die Wärme für kalte Winter speichern.
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Honestly it’s usually like 2 weeks out of the year. I just use a fan and drink lots of water then it’s over as fast as it came.
> Why don’t landlords see ACs as a onetime investment and maybe charge us a small monthly fee like they do for heating.
Because in a housing crisis they have all the power and no need to make their flat more attractive to potentially tenants. They literally don’t need to make this investment.
37 is disgusting without AC. No one is saying to make the apartment into a refrigerator but I think having one would at least make the apartment feel livable. It’s silly to be so against them, in my opinion.
As long as it gets cold at night it’s usually fine. I live in an attic apartment. We have foil on the windows and curtains that reflect the sun and it’s mostly enough.
You can buy a portable AC though.
The thing is that we have like two months of summer. The rest of the year acs are pretty much redundant. So I guess it makes sense that people don’t want to invest in an ac unit, especially not in already existing buildings.
Buy midea portasplit
Put the outside part on the balcony
Put the inside part in the flat
(Almost) Close door so that only the „hose“ connecting the two parts sticks through
Silent mode not to trigger the neighbors
Profit
Tenants recognize this, that’s why everyone and their mother is getting a Midea Portasplit right now. Landlords are being stingy and short-sighted as usual.
As someone who plans to build a house in 10yrs or so: yes. Fully electric heating, maximised solar coverage of the roof and bam, AC is for free.
For existing housing…difficult.
My tip: put your feet into a bucket of ice cold water, it’s honestly the best feeling in the summer time while at home!
I’ve seen some mobile split units being sold this year that require no permanent alterations to the apartment. I would imagine that if you have a balcony, those can be used without any landlord involvement.
What would be a good idea is if apartments came with the provision for installing a split unit, which is basically just a hole in the external wall for the pipe. This is how it’s done in Cyprus at least. A/C or central heating isn’t necessarily installed by yhe developer, but the necessary piping is there if you choose to use it.
What would be a great idea is if heat pumps where mandatory to install in new constructions, but that would provoke a coup d’etat if someone tried to legislate this.
An alternatively for those that cannot do it is to make sure your roller shutters (if you have them) are down before the sun comes around so that there is minimal solar gain and then open the windows at night to try and flush the air as much as possible. For us that got us a good 5c lower temperatures in the flat compared to when we were not making sure the shutters were down before the sun came around. It isn’t as good as AC but if you have these other things already it is a good option to try if you are not already.
Ceiling fans also work super well, unfortunately we cannot really find any good ones but our friends have a very decently sized up which massively improves the feeling of the room it is in.
Yeah, you can get one if you want.🤷🏼♀️
I don’t see the problem.
i think investment in a good and proper fan might be sufficient. Not perfect, but sufficient in the shade.
Coming from Singapore, where not having an AC is brutal, its not so bad here. Also ACs gonna blow a hole in your wallet, with the energy prices as they are here in Germany.
I work with real estate developers and you‘d think they plan new building with ACs in mind. But no. Many still build without ACs and in ways that make retrofitting ACs expensive and difficult.
Central A/C tends to be harder and more expensive to install because you need a new system of ducts to move cool air around.
As a New Englander tho, we have the same situation where most of our homes don’t have central AC but now it’s getting hot enough in the summer to need it. Landlords don’t give a shit because you can put a window unit and run up your own electricity bill, and if it breaks, it’s on you to fix. Not the same for central a/c, where they have to pay for its maintenance.
I am sure most luxury apartments will have AC soon/already have it, however, most standard appartments dont require AC to find a renter so why bother as a landlord. I think you underestimate the cost/trouble of installing AC in an existing building, there is really little incentive for a landlord to do so.
I once did the math of how much it’s cost me in electricity and tbh Id rather use my small fan and wet towel until we get cheaper.
We might need it as well here in the north. What the latest weather models showed this morning was horrific. 5+ days of 35°C+ in a row in Hamburg, with two of them potentially reaching the 40s. 42°C in lower saxony. Over 40°C in Berlin too.
While this is still far out and far from certain it shows what kind of heat is possible now at this time of the year. It’s not even July yet ffs.
You might get a Zug, though.
I moved from Florida to Hamburg. I bought an AC 2 years ago, I use it a few weeks per year. It’s 30 outside but 23 in my apartment. AC in Germany is not a problem, they sell them and you can buy them and use them if you want .
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Is the housing market free or regulated?
If it’s free, people will just expect a lower rent for an un air-conditioned house, and if it’s too low that it’s worth more to the owner to install an AC, they will.
I am not trying to shove capitalist ideas here or something, just what happens in my country. Plenty of older houses without AC just stand vacant and owners understand it’s worth more to install ACs
I had an AC installed just three weeks ago, in coordination with my landlord. One of the quotes I got mentioned a tax incentive for landlords. Not sure how true it is, but I hope so.
For everyone talking about high energy costs for a AC. That thing doesn’t run 24/7, only in intervals to cool and not every day. You won’t notice the impact much at the end of the year, but the quality of life improvement is amazing.
The most ridiculous part is that the public transportation has no AC either. LOL. We have a portable AC and plan to buy 1 or 2 more. Maybe the midea portasplit that seems to be popular now. Unfortunately even if you own an apartment you cannot make holes in the wall to install a wall AC unless you own lets say a house.
Being originally from a different country and having travelled a lot I find the german „fear“ of the AC really funny. Also the climate change argument is a bit naive if you look around you (I mean look at other countries).
I put the lack of AC in the same category as the belief in homeopathy and waldorf schools.
Show me one landlord that spends more than they are legally required to
I would love to have my own house with solar on top and batteries in the basement and a electric car charging in front and several split ACs that use the energy when its hot and the sun is shining but like most germans i don’t have any of that. So i will not plug a mobile ac into the outlet to use up like 1kW of the mixed source energy of my flat, fuck that
sorry, can only offer new gas heater lol 😃
Weather app tells me its gonna be 38°C next week. Kill me already
If you want it, just buy it.
Got one installed in our house and definitely a game changer.