Landlord relocated the hot water heater...to my bedroom!!

[joshw10]

Im moving into a new apartment soon, and have been paying rent for the past 2 months while I still have a lease in my current apartment. over that time I've just been buying furniture and gradually moving things over. Last week there was a notice on the door saying they'd be coming by to replace the hot water heater. No big deal I thought, the building is old and they probably just need new ones. Well, I was very surprised when I went over today and saw that the hot water heater wasnt replaced, it was just moved...into my bedroom! (maintenance note left on the floor said "relocated"). The bedroom is right on the other side of the closet where the water heater used to reside, and they just knocked a hole in the bedroom wall to run the pipes and the water heater is sitting in the bedroom up on blocks.

There is no way I'm going to tolerate this, but I don't know what recourse I have...or why they would do this in the first place. I'm trying to look into renters laws, but most of the stuff refers to a premise just being livable. I did see some stuff about water heaters not being allowed in bedrooms, but that was just for gas heaters, and it wasnt even my state. Mine is electric.

Help!!

 

[Safeway]

Umm ... wtf. Maybe they moved it there until they can replace it? Heh.

 

[sharkeeper]

Why would you want an appliance to heat hot water?

 

[Triforceofcourage]

you = pwned

 

[joshw10]

I thought of it, but that seems pretty unlikely. There's no reason they couldnt do it all the same day...especially when they went to the trouble of knocking a hole through the wall, extending the pipes/hoses into the bedroom...and then they'd have to undo all that and repair the wall to put it back

 

[Chode Messiah]

WTF^mate?!!! You can't take sH17 like that. Complain to the city and tell them ur problem. It sounds like it's against code to move the heater there. I'm not positive but it might even be illegal.

 

[her209]

Its really a hidden camera.

 

[alien42]

people pay lots of money for lofts that have pipes and structural materials exposed. consider yourself lucky

 

[sixone]

Originally posted by: Chode Messiah
WTF^mate?!!! You can't take sH17 like that. Complain to the city and tell them ur problem. It sounds like it's against code to move the heater there. I'm not positive but it might even be illegal.

 

[imported_Salvatore]

Originally posted by: Kvaerner Masa
Why would you want an appliance to heat hot water?

:laugh:

 

[Yossarian]

that's almost as weird as you paying 2 months rent for a place you don't even live in.

 

[gsaldivar]

Pics?

 

[ctcsoft]

Originally posted by: gsaldivar
Pics?

wtf are you paying 2 different landlords rent for????

if you tolerate a hot water heater in your bedroom then you got problems. i would be bitching hardcore until something got done.

 

[kami333]

meh, you'll get used to it. I currently live in an apartment on the 6th flr and the shower is on the ground floor in a converted storage closet under the stairs.

And there's no elevator.


Some of my apartment's have showers in their bedroom, just a stall thing in the corner of the room. There's only so much space to work with in a old buidling.

 

[AaronB]

We really need pics of this.

 

[OutHouse]

i do believe that is a building code violation.

 

[desteffy]

Originally posted by: Citrix
i do believe that is a building code violation.

yeah call the city or something.

 

[NorthRiver]

pics or ban!!!

 

[joshw10]

Originally posted by: ctcsoft

Originally posted by: gsaldivar
Pics?

wtf are you paying 2 different landlords rent for????

Uh...because the lease where I live now isn't up till end of this month. and a place opened up where I wanted to move for the beginning of April, with the next opening being end of June.



Pics next time I go over there.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: kami333
meh, you'll get used to it. I currently live in an apartment on the 6th flr and the shower is on the ground floor in a converted storage closet under the stairs.

And there's no elevator.


Some of my apartment's have showers in their bedroom, just a stall thing in the corner of the room. There's only so much space to work with in a old buidling.

I praised my en-suite when I read this...

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: Citrix
i do believe that is a building code violation.

i think so too.

they did the same thing in an apartment that a friend was living in and he called the city inspector... who promptly condemned the entire property until it was sorted. but each state is different.

you should check.

 

[RedCOMET]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie
i think so too.

they did the same thing in an apartment that a friend was living in and he called the city inspector... who promptly condemned the entire property until it was sorted. but each state is different.

you should check.

I'm sure that would make the other tenants real happy.

 

[AlienCraft]

Make a call to the local Building Dept.
This is most likely contrary to local building code. 99.9% of water heaters mustr be affixed to wall using straps, have pan underneath to catch overflow, and have the pressure release valve vented to the outside. It most likely also cannot be located in a living space, ie BEDROOM.

Oh and if paying a slumlord is moving on up, then I feel badly for you.

 

[ChefJoe]

Let me get this... they relocated the water heater from the nice, enclosed closet it used to be in to the opposite side of that wall which is sitting right in the room portion of a bedroom and left the closet with nothing in it ? Sounds like extremely poor layout choices.

I speak as someone who has a water heater in my apartment's bedroom closet and has a small closet which could be used for such a water heater now has a stacked washer/dryer.

 

[Rumpltzer]

Here's something else to consider. That thing generates a lot of heat.

It's gonna be freakin hot in your bedroom!