Those lights use a lot more electricity if they are turned on.
Do you pay the electricity directly yourselves or the landlord?
Heat lamps can be around 250 watts..so if you were on a rate of 40c per kilowatt for example, you are probably paying around €0.40 every 4 hours of use.
Next time you pass a skip outside a house being insulated [edit: with rigid insulation], grab a spare piece, cut to size and glue it to the top side of the board covering the attic opening.
Might be cheaper than a burst pipe…. and you’ll have to explain why the pipe burst
Whats it for?
My first thought was the previous tenant must’ve been cultivating some sort of plants up there!
Anything that’s for heat it’s expensive
Not as expensive as a burst water pipe, that’s for sure
Use the profits from the home grown weed to cover the electricity costs!
burst pipe cost us 8k
Put a few select “plants” underneath it. Get your money worth out of it.
Everyones saying its so the pipes dont freeze but be some craic if it was actually just the old tenants weed grow set up and feckin eeijit forgot to turn off the light on the way out.
Yep heat lamp with a frost stat. Keeps your tank and pipes from freezing.
Its 100% cheaper to buy a few lengths of lagging and lag the pipes and buy a lagging jacket for your tank. About 80 euro total for these materials in any buders merchants.
Someone installed that lamp there for a reason. Don’t simply remove it, ask your landlord. Could be a really good reason it’s there.
Obv there for you to sleep under, wrapped up in some nice fiberglass insulation.
They can be controlled by a frost thermostat so it could switch off when the attic warms up a bit.
I had one in my old house above the water tank. Preventing it from freezing.
Somewhat.
About 60k if it breaks.
Source: own experience.
Everyone is assuming it’s for the pipes when the obvious reason is a secret attic snake
Not expensive at all if it stops your pipes bursting. Put it on a timer for cold weather. My mates attic pipe just burst, thousands damage done. Not to mention the heart break.
It’s probably on a temperature switch. So it’s only probably coming on when it hits 0c more than likely. You would be alot worse off without it
It is there for a reason. The two ways to insulate are either doing the attic floor or the roof of the house. If you insulate the roof of the house then heat will travel up to the attic and the living area of the house will be colder.
Insulating the attic floor area will make the living area of the house warmer and more comfortably for you. The downside of this is heat from the house doesn’t reach the attic and it is in danger of freezing up there in cold weather. The heat lamp is probably on a timer or temperature switch. If it’s not then this is the only thing you request from the landlord. If it wasn’t done this way then the house you live in would be much colder and you would spend a lot more on heating.
The entitlement and outright stupidity from so many in this sub astounds me daily. If this wasn’t done and the pipes burst destroyed the ceilings and your property this sub would be out with pitchforks for the landlord demanding the death sentence.
TL;DR It is there for a reason. Make sure it’s on either a timer or ideally a temperature switch so it only comes on when actually needed.
It’s probably there to stop the water tank that I presume is up there from freezing in the winter. You could always put it on a timer switch or something.
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Those lights use a lot more electricity if they are turned on.
Do you pay the electricity directly yourselves or the landlord?
Heat lamps can be around 250 watts..so if you were on a rate of 40c per kilowatt for example, you are probably paying around €0.40 every 4 hours of use.
Next time you pass a skip outside a house being insulated [edit: with rigid insulation], grab a spare piece, cut to size and glue it to the top side of the board covering the attic opening.
Might be cheaper than a burst pipe…. and you’ll have to explain why the pipe burst
Whats it for?
My first thought was the previous tenant must’ve been cultivating some sort of plants up there!
Anything that’s for heat it’s expensive
Not as expensive as a burst water pipe, that’s for sure
Use the profits from the home grown weed to cover the electricity costs!
burst pipe cost us 8k
Put a few select “plants” underneath it. Get your money worth out of it.
Everyones saying its so the pipes dont freeze but be some craic if it was actually just the old tenants weed grow set up and feckin eeijit forgot to turn off the light on the way out.
Yep heat lamp with a frost stat. Keeps your tank and pipes from freezing.
Its 100% cheaper to buy a few lengths of lagging and lag the pipes and buy a lagging jacket for your tank. About 80 euro total for these materials in any buders merchants.
it’s a fire hazard! if it’s really needed the it should be one of [these](https://www.google.com/search?q=tube+heater&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwistvSJ58_8AhVXpicCHYlFCTcQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=tube+he&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQARgBMgQIABBDMgUIABCABDIFCAAQgAQyBQgAEIAEMgUIABCABDoECCMQJzoHCCMQ6gIQJzoECAAQAzoICAAQgAQQsQNQ9AlY6kRgjVxoAXAAeAGAAYQBiAHYC5IBBDE1LjOYAQCgAQGwAQXAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=kzXHY-ygC9fMnsEPiYuluAM&bih=782&biw=412&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&prmd=isvn)
Read the bulb an check what the watts are
Is it on a thermostat? Or on 24/7
Someone installed that lamp there for a reason. Don’t simply remove it, ask your landlord. Could be a really good reason it’s there.
Obv there for you to sleep under, wrapped up in some nice fiberglass insulation.
They can be controlled by a frost thermostat so it could switch off when the attic warms up a bit.
I had one in my old house above the water tank. Preventing it from freezing.
Somewhat.
About 60k if it breaks.
Source: own experience.
Everyone is assuming it’s for the pipes when the obvious reason is a secret attic snake
Not expensive at all if it stops your pipes bursting. Put it on a timer for cold weather. My mates attic pipe just burst, thousands damage done. Not to mention the heart break.
It’s probably on a temperature switch. So it’s only probably coming on when it hits 0c more than likely. You would be alot worse off without it
It is there for a reason. The two ways to insulate are either doing the attic floor or the roof of the house. If you insulate the roof of the house then heat will travel up to the attic and the living area of the house will be colder.
Insulating the attic floor area will make the living area of the house warmer and more comfortably for you. The downside of this is heat from the house doesn’t reach the attic and it is in danger of freezing up there in cold weather. The heat lamp is probably on a timer or temperature switch. If it’s not then this is the only thing you request from the landlord. If it wasn’t done this way then the house you live in would be much colder and you would spend a lot more on heating.
The entitlement and outright stupidity from so many in this sub astounds me daily. If this wasn’t done and the pipes burst destroyed the ceilings and your property this sub would be out with pitchforks for the landlord demanding the death sentence.
TL;DR It is there for a reason. Make sure it’s on either a timer or ideally a temperature switch so it only comes on when actually needed.
It’s probably there to stop the water tank that I presume is up there from freezing in the winter. You could always put it on a timer switch or something.