A curious dispute between the owners of a housing complex in the upscale district of Hietzing shows that inflation has long preoccupied the upper middle class. The stumbling block is the small communal pool in the basement of the house. Electricity guzzler or ice water?
Due to inflation and higher energy prices, property management became active and the apartment owners voted on whether the pool temperature should be lowered from 29.5 degrees Celsius to 24.5 degrees Celsius year-round to avoid a terrible energy bill. . A narrow majority voted in favor of the property manager’s proposal. “The pool is estimated to be used for one to two hours three times a week, but is heated around the clock all year round,” said a Krone resident who voted in favor of the temperature reduction.
Hypothermia after a few minutes?
Much to the dismay of another owner in the house, who threw an anonymous angry letter in all mailboxes. And so began the curious inflation dispute in the upscale neighborhood: “The target water temperature of 24.5 degrees has nothing to do with a reasonable saving measure, but is solely aimed at closing the indoor pool,” the resident writes in it. “At 24.5 degrees you run the risk of hypothermia after just a few minutes,” says the co-owner, who now demands a detailed calculation of how much savings each reduced degree of water and room temperature yields. He also fears that the value of his apartment will drop significantly if the bathroom is “saved to ruin”.
While other people have to ponder over how to feed their families or pay their rent in the face of sky-high prices, the Hietzing elite clearly have other problems.
Source: Krone
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