Apartment quirks

Night_Sprite · October 2009

I moved a few weeks ago. We turned out heater on for the first time this weekend. It sounds like a dragon in my walls when it starts. I don't know if I should be concerned or not.

Night_Sprite · October 2009

Do your houses and apartments have quirks?

Ciaram22 · October 2009

The doors on mine keep getting stuck. And when I open my front door any of the other doors that are open get sucked shut. Its kinda creepy.Our cats also stare at the hallway light that is in front of the front door. Its almost as if there is something there but not there at the same time. That one is even more creepy.

anna.oskar · October 2009

My old apt. had a heater like that. It was water heat so it also made a clanking noise when it was on. The current house has windows that rattle when the wind is bad. They don't let cold in, just rattle.

anna.oskar · October 2009

p.s. fb me your address Sprite, invites go out Tuesday

katiewhompus · October 2009

Our windows all have the safety locks on them where you can't open them all the way. They also don't turn on the AC in the building until it's been 90 degrees for a week straight. Combine those and you get one of my pets dying from heat stroke and the guy above us having to take his 3 month old baby to the ER for heat stroke. Gj apt building.There were no ceilings lights in my old apartment. Any light had to be brought in via floor lamps, desk lamps, etc. I learned this my first night there when it got dark and I realized the light switches didn't actually have lights connected to them.

nvdmeulen · October 2009

the hot water tank in my basement bangs sometimes at night, and the noise travels through the vents and comes out right beside my head. also, my windows are all single pane glass (REALLY effing stupid of the building designer since I live in Calgary, but it is a very old house), and I get ice accumulation on the INSIDES of my windows when there are really long, very cold stints in the winter time. which was practically ALL of last winter. and the sink taps in my off-suite bathroom are on funny, they turn in the opposite directions they normally would when one is supposed to be turning them on and off.

nda_roxybabe · October 2009

Currently our fridge squeaks when we open/close it. The bedroom and bathroom doors slam easily because of the way its set up. My old apartment didnt have any ceiling lights either...very annoying.

sapphirebaby926 · October 2009

The handle on our front door doesn't quite fit so the inside part just falls off randomly. Also the back door wasn't set right when it was installed so it doesn't actually close so we have to keep the deadbolt locked.

amalama · October 2009

No apartments here have ceiling lights. Usually one fan in the dining room and nothing in the living room and bedrooms. My sister just moved into an apartment with lights in every room and didn't get why I thought that was so awesome. We have a house now but we have a zillion cheap lamps from living in apartments. Our house doesn't have weird noises, but the master bedrooms heats and cools way faster than anywhere else. I have to remember to adjust the thermostat a couple hours before I go to bed or it's to hot/cold to sleep.

mwhitson14 · October 2009

Katie that's awful! My first apt, I'm pretty sure, was haunted. TV/DVD player would randomly turn on and off, I'd come in and lights would be on, random stuff. My second apt had a really annoying stove, it didn't cook evenly. Other than that it was awesome. Oh yeah, except for the heifer that lived with me. She was really annoying too.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · October 2009

My heater is ancient. Last year (the first winter after we moved) I was convinced it would blow up my house. We don't leave it on during the day.I have a walk-thru closet, which is about the same size as the bedrooms. Which aren't that big. It's the only room in the house with two light switches.The bathroom has a dimmer. The electricity in the socket is only turned on when the light is on. Full capacity = full electricity in the socket.The normal closets we have (2 in each bedroom) each have a small window set up high in the wall. They're only about 10 inches by maybe 8 inches. And they swing open, like French windows. I guess they're for natural light in the closet, even though each closet HAS a light and the apartment was built in 1923, well after many people had electricity, this place, I'm assuming, included.

TurtlesAllTheWayDown · October 2009

Oh I also have a stove that's "Harvest gold" in color, and I'm pretty sure it's from the late 60s/early 70s. It sets off the smoke alarm every time I use the oven. The smoke alarms I installed, BTW, since there weren't any in my apartment when I moved in. And the entire stove gets really hot when you cook with it.I'm pretty sure we have cracks in our living room wall from the foundation, but that's my landlord's problem.

nefariousmoon · October 2009

My cats do the stare thing too...it really is creepy. My place is layed out in an impossible way to watch Tv and use the fireplace at the same time. Actually to use the fire place we have to compleatly move the couch 90* and when we are done move it back. And during that time you can not watch Tv. And that is all the space there is for the once couch. And its a smaller one. Our A/C drains out into our shower from the ceiling...so whenever you want to take a shower you have to plug up the hole, and remember to unplug it afterwords or the ceiling will flood. The place cools/heats different areas in order...The second bedroom is always the coldest/hottest. The living/dining/kitchen is medium. And master bedroom Takes forever to heat/cool to the point where we have to get the living area too hot or too cold to make it comphy in there...we have actually resorted to using a stand fan that blows on the bed and a space heater on one of the nightstands.The "master bath" is smaller then the main bath. when you open the door it hits the tub and when you turn to your left you are almost on top of the toilet. And the sink is actually located in the bedroom. Our fidge randomly makes ticking noises...like a bomb is about to go off in the kitchen. And sadly enough I could go on... The only reason we still live here is we are trying to get a car, and we know the landlord. So rent is cheeper then it should be, and we want our next move to be a house.

thesuninherhead · October 2009

That's so odd about apartments without lights. I knew it happened in older buildings in Germany (we were staying with a friend over there who had only a few lights built in), but I would have thought that in newer buildings that wouldn't be the case... certainly, I've never seen any apartments without built in lights over here. I used to constantly think there were people walking up the stairs in the apartment I lived in when I first moved out... because the places all had stairs that were effectively in the middle of the building, you could hear everyone else in the buliding going up/down their stairs.

Stackeye210 · October 2009

My hot water tank makes a knocking noise after someone takes a shower while it is filling back up. I also can't blow dry my hair in the bathroom while DH is ironing in the office.

Bubbalub · October 2009

Our little house is apartment-sized and built in the 1950s (probably). I think the windows are original and they rattle when it's windy. When it's cold outside and we turn the heater on inside the windows get condensation on the inside so we get mold growing if we don't mop up the water quick enough.Our stovetop pulls out from the wall which is kinda cool because I can hide it when we have people coming over last-minute and I haven't cleaned it. The wind also makes a howling noise in our chimney, but I bet that's fairly common. One of my old apartments was old enough to still have a milk door. My crazy old neighbor used to leave beer in there for me in the summer. :P

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