Sorry guys, I have to vent (heh). In the stairway of the house that I live in there is some person who permanently, even in the deepest of winters, opens the windows a tilt and leaves them like that for hours, until I or somebody else closes it, while the stairway goes down to freezing temperatures (and in turn our heating bills go up because the heat from our flats is escaping via the doors) also the stairway is heated via radiators behind a grid with a thermostat that I cannot turn down, so it just heats out of the window.
Why do people do that? Don’t they know what “stoßlüften” is? Meaning that you air a room by opening the windows for a short while (5 to 10 min max.) and than closing them again? This prevents the room from cooling down to much. These rules are explained by several federal agencies in all German speaking countries. Like [here](https://www.bmuv.de/themen/gesundheit-chemikalien/gesundheit/innenraumluft/richtiges-lueften-und-heizen). Yet people are still ignorant about it.
If you know an example of how the rules of airing a room properly are explained in a nice way in English, I’d be very happy to get the link. The best would be a kind of infographic with as few as possible words. I hope I don’t have to explain why conserving energy is important.
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Wow. You’d think it Germany there would be laws proscribing how stairways are vented.