The neighbor asked:"Did they give you warmth in your apartment?"
"YES, just yesterday warm water "rustled" through the pipes.I answered.
After talking, she complained: “It’s scary to imagine what will happen in winter, how much you will have to pay your pension to heat your apartment. Last year, they accrued 5,000 rubles each in January and February. And this is almost half of the pension. We'll probably have to exchange an apartment for a smaller one, otherwise it's really hard. "Granny advised.
Indeed, over the past ten years, the state has completely entrusted the payment of energy resources on the shoulders of citizens. And every year the tariffs are constantly growing. And salaries and pensions do not keep up with them. Of course, the state could ease this burden for ordinary people, but you need to understand that high heat tariffs are due to many factors that many simply do not know about:
Heating mains warm the air and we pay for it
In cities, in microdistricts, heating mains are laid between houses under the ground. Usually in the trays at a depth of 2-3 meters there are two heating pipes and sometimes two more DHW pipes. The pipeline was laid in Soviet times and is not well insulated. Accordingly, the heating main, through the thickness of the earth, gives off heat energy to the air, for which we will pay. The losses are included in the tariff.
Weak insulation of Soviet-built houses, large heat loss through the walls
The houses built from bricks during the Soviet era are quite warm, but the panel apartment buildings froze through through and through, I remember how my Mom tore off a frozen fur coat from the inner wall of the cabinet, adjoining through a sheet of plywood to the concrete wall of the house. So cold penetrated the apartments. The issue of heating in these houses was solved as follows: more heat was supplied to the batteries, and that's it. Indeed, in those days, no one counted gigacalories.
Waste neighbors, with the old way of thinking
Now, heat metering devices are installed on each house, they count how much energy has entered through the "supply" pipe and how much heat has gone through the "return" pipe. The heat remaining in the house is converted into those numbers that we see in bills. And where does the tenants of the house, you say? The fact is that many residents with old habits (Soviet), at the beginning of the heating season, and sometimes in the middle of winter they leave open the windows in the stairwells, they feel stuffy there, you know, when rise. But they, having opened a window in the entrance, go home and do not pull their nose into the front door. The heat from the batteries heats the street. Increasing payments to all tenants. Absolutely everyone. The situation with the entrance doors is the same, you must always keep them closed. In addition, we must lock and insulate the windows to the basement. If it is too hot in all apartments in winter, then demand a decrease in the temperature in the CC. Why pay for overheating?
Came from the USSR
We inherited all these shortcomings of the system. Houses were built in micro-districts, it was easier and faster to lay a heating main for heating houses. Take heat from the CHP. The costs of building and maintaining the systems were on the shoulders of the state.
Now heat supply organizations count every penny, every calorie spent on our homes, and accordingly the rent is so high. In addition, tariffs per unit of heat are often overstated, which enriches the pockets of officials and owners of heat supply companies.