It has occurred to me that many students are currently looking around potential residences for next year, it's scary, I know. But after nearly 2 years of living in the same house, I have come to realise that not all that letting agents advertise are particularly accurate. After encouragement from some friends I have decided to share with you a letter that for obvious reasons, my housemates wouldnt let me send. However, due to a bit too much wine and in the interests of some saturday night entertainment, here goes...
Hi guys,
When we first saw your ad for our current residence, the same thought went through our minds - 'great' we all said simultaneously, 'all inclusive of bills, we will never have to worry about being freezing students in the winter because our heating is included!'
It is only now, that I have come to realise that we may have been wrong. Apologies for being so naive. I am currently wearing 3 jumpers, leggings, joggers, slippers and wrapped in a duvet, and I am still freezing. Not only this but we can see our breath whilst sitting in both our bedrooms and communal areas. This seems to be due to the fact that our heating has a mind of its own.
Whilst sweltering in the summer, the radiators seemed to get revenge on us, for what I still to this day don't know, but by switching themselves on to full heat. 'Fabulous' we thought, 'at least we will appreciate this in the winter!' But winter has arrived in full force, and alas, the system has not been kind to us, it is simply refusing to work.
We have tried everything, the deepest depths of google have been searched to try and gain some insight into how we can make it work. We've danced round the thermostat in true pagan style. We've even spoken nicely to the thermostat box in the hope it would listen and warm us up, even just by a few degrees.
So this email is purely to request some advice and insight as to how this system works, I simply cannot cope with my body temperature being as cold as my soul any longer. If no advice can be given, could you possibly send someone round to have a little look and kindly remove the feeling that we are living in Queen Elsa's ice castle. Any minute now we are all going to burst in to 'let it go', and I'm not sure the neighbours will appreciate it. I dunno, it just seems appropriate given the current temperature.
Kind regards
Sarah
a.k.a the ice block sat down the road from the office
