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Update: My landlord served me a 3 day notice to cure violation or move out over keeping my window open. It's not on my lease. It's not a violation. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 0 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

What magic pressure differential are you referring to? A/C recirculates indoor air and has slightly positive rooms and slightly negative rooms, but will always be net ~1ATM of pressure. If his room has slightly positive pressure and he opens the window, then guess what, hot humid air is being pulling into the house in other people's rooms, hallways, bathrooms. This would also explain why he doesn't experience the issues it would cause.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    It seems like they are living in a closet-sized room. Do you know for a fact there is even an intake vent and that OP doesn't block it? You have no idea what the situation is. I live in a significantly more humid climate and A/Cs are never installed or maintained properly, even in some schools. Hot and humid air will only be true at some points of the day for OP, who lives in California.

    The only reason we are even talking about humidity damage is because the person who responded to OP immediately took the landlord's side and loosely accused OP of feeling that everyone is against them right off the bat.

    They want their window open, we should tell them their rights, help them understand the risks and potential mitigation strategies, help them formulate a defense... most people have zero issues doing what they want as long as they aren't causing damage. Opening a window is reasonable because the A/C is too cold for them.

    If you look at OP's previous thread, their landlord seems fairly unreasonable, even considering we are getting a one-sided account of events.

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  • [โ€“] -2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I don't have to know a single one of those details, because I know for a fact that AC does not create a magic pressure differential within a house relative to the outside that could possibly negate hot humid air intrusion. That is your assumption, not mine. When the window is open the temperature differential across the opening with cause convention (mixing of the air). If his room actually is positively pressured enough relative to other rooms, then he is causing hot humid air to be pulling interior at other locations around the house.

    I have sympathy for OP, but in 90F, that sucks for whoever is paying for the AC.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    So, now the argument is shifting, we care about the landlord's power bill. We care about the landlord's rights, we care about the landlord's property like it's our job (worrying about potential, speculative damage), but the second it comes time to care for OP in a thread where they are seeking support? That doesn't seem to be what happened, based on the responses here.

    A/Cs do take care of humidity, I doubt very expensive damage could be caused from a small, closet-sized room from a single window - especially if OP closed the window for periods of high humidity conditions.. OP could agree to be held responsible for damage, they might have already done so in their rental agreement/etc.

    Let me put OP and their landlord on separate sides of a scale, do I care more about the person struggling who just wants to keep their window open for fresh air (and a number of other valid reasons) or the person who could easily just tolerate a tenant having a single window being open in a small room for most of the day in California? The answer is easily the person in distress, who should be able to own and afford their own home and live a dignified life.

    You said it yourself, you sympathize with OP. Feeling bad for them isn't the same as caring for them and understanding that they experienced trauma from their landlord's actions. The people in this thread added to that trauma.

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