Following some frosty mornings, the heat in the Northern Vermont University – Lyndon residential halls has been turned on for the season. Director of Student Life Erin Rossetti confirmed this in an email to students this morning.
Residents of the Rita Bole Complex reported they had heat for days before this announcement. Rossetti says that would be because Rita Bole’s heating system is different from the Wheelock and Stonehenge residences. “It automatically kicks on at a certain temperature so it certainly may have kicked on over the weekend,” she told The Critic.
There is no “key date” in which heat is normally turned on. Instead, Rossetti says “Based on outreach from our students, I reach out to Maintenance with the feedback from residents and Maintenance works to get [the heat] ready based on the resident experience and upcoming forecast.”
Now that the heat is on, students are asked to lock their windows and keep them closed for the heating season. Unlocked windows in the residential halls usually result in drafts, and any cold air coming into the buildings causes the heaters to not work properly and could impact the temperature in neighbors’ rooms. In her morning email, Rossetti added that moving large items and/or furniture away from the radiators will “allow for the proper flow of air in your room which will help the radiator work properly.”
If students find that water is leaking from their radiators or air is coming from their thermostats, they are advised to report it to their Resident Assistant (RA). Rossetti said the RAs will submit a work order for residents to get these problems addressed.
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