Hey all
Looking for some advice on this helpful subreddit.
This is my first winter in Germany (Berlin, in particular) and I’m gonna be heading out of the EU for 3-4 weeks for a long vacation and I have a couple of questions:
1. I have a question about what setting to set my radiators to while I’m on vacation. I have 3 radiators in my apartment and 2 of them have the snowflake icon available (*). I know this setting is called frost protection and it will keep the pipes from freezing so I’ll leave these 2 radiators at the snowflake setting. However, I have a third radiator in my bathroom that doesn’t have the snowflake setting. It only has “0” and there’s a setting below “0” as well (unmarked with numbers) as you can see in these images:
[Radiator Images](https://imgur.com/a/ys9wWFP)
What should I set this radiator to so that that the pipes don’t freeze while minimizing my heating cost? 0? Below 0? Above 0?
2. There is no radiator or any other form of heating in the kitchen (it’s quite an old apartment) and it’s a kitchen separate from the living room (so it can’t share the living room’s radiator).
Wouldn’t there be a risk of pipe freezing here since there’s no heating at all here? I’m guessing it hasn’t been an issue because this is a super old apartment and it’s survived all those winters but I’m not really sure so I thought I’d check if this is normal or not.
Thank you in advance!
1 comment
In an apartment building there’s close to zero chance of pipes freezing in Berlin winter, unless the entire *building* stays vacant for weeks, in January or February.