While temperatures skyrocketing Winnipeg this week, many residents of apartments are forced to sweat it without air conditioning.
With summits well in the 1930s, the Winnipeggers felt the heat, but many buildings are not ready to switch the switch to AC for the moment.
The residential branch establishes a minimum temperature to which all owners must keep their buildings throughout the winter, but there is no maximum temperature for the summer before the tunes must light up.
Avrom Charach of the Professional Professional Managers Association told Global Winnipeg that it was a delicate situation, because CVC systems in some buildings require some time to go completely from heating to cooling, and a sudden heat wave like that of Winnipeg is difficult to plan.
“If you have decided today that you want to turn on the cooling, it will take days before it is on,” said Charach.
“You must be careful, because once you turn on the cooling, you cannot turn on the heat (rear) … So there is a sudden cold stroke, you can now violate the minimum temperature, because your building can go below 18 degrees at night.”
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And the forecasts of next week in Winnipeg support it – after a few really hot days, temperatures should drop near zero later this week.
Charach said that most of the owners had to adopt an approach to the best guessing about making the change.
“Often he examines long-term forecasts,” he said. “Of course, in March and April, you are not going to seek too closely, but in early May, real estate directors would examine the long -term forecasts of May, the long -term forecast of June.
“Some time after the long weekend (May), tends to be generally when you exchange.”
However, the logistics of when to turn on the AC is little comfort for the Winnipeggers which are feeling the heat at the moment.
“It will be like entering a sauna. No word of lies – I sit down and all the sweat flows, it’s terrible,” said Sarah Kitcher, who lives in a building in Adamar Road, in Global Winnipeg.
“This heat also creates headache for me. I use fresh fabrics. “
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