Residents of Vienna-Penzing want to throttle their heating for the environment and the wallet. But the government won’t allow it.
When it’s cold outside, everyone wants a warm house. In a residential building on Schanzstraße in Penzing, however, heating is becoming torture for the residents. “We have central heating and cannot regulate the temperature in our apartments,” says tenant Gerald Wochinger. Every year the heating was on until the Ice Saints, in mid-May, even though it was 25 degrees outside.
“We can only sleep at night with the window open, even in winter,” laments the 66-year-old. Apart from the fact that the quality of the stay in your own four walls suffers, this is a pure waste of energy. The house has recently been re-insulated and the windows replaced. “For what?” the residents rightly ask.
Tenants have to pay heating costs
And the tenants also have the heating costs. “Since the beginning of February we also pay 92 percent more for district heating. I don’t see why I should pay for something I don’t need,” says the annoyed pensioner. And in the hallway and in the garage it is always 21 degrees warm. “Especially now, energy saving is a top priority. We would like to, but we can’t,” complains Mrs. Wochinger.
For this reason, the couple and some of their neighbors started a signature campaign in the spring and asked the property management to arrange the heating accordingly. They only got the answer that the tenants didn’t have to decide how warm it should be in the residential building.
The landlords did not respond to the “Krone” request.
Source: Krone
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