Heating defective: Munich families are shivering in their apartments - "Many are now very disaffected"

Created: 01/12/2022, 6:45 PM

From: Claudia Schuri

63-year-old Silvia R. has been keeping warm for days with warm clothes and hot water bottles.

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In the Berliner Strasse in Munich, dozens of families shivered for days in their Dawonia apartments before they received the relieving news on Tuesday evening.

Munich - jacket, hat, scarf, hot water bottle and a cup of tea - that's how Silvia R. sat in her apartment in Schwabing * for the last few days.

Because since Wednesday (January 5th) the heating was no longer working there.

The thermometer only showed 11.5 degrees.

“It's freezing,” she says.

"It's easy to get sick there."

The 63-year-old was not the only one with this problem ... As she reports, several apartment buildings belonging to the real estate company Dawonia on Berliner Strasse were affected.

Dozens of families shivered in their homes *.

"We also have a lot of children and senior citizens living with us," says Silvia R. "It's particularly difficult for them."

Munich: Dozens of families without heating for days - Dawonia tenants angry

Corinna L. was also affected. "It's particularly cold at night," * she says.

"The windows are not completely tight either." Tenant Inge W. is also annoyed.

“Nobody contacted me about the heating,” she criticizes.

She had meanwhile bought herself a fan heater.

Several houses on Berliner Strasse had no heating.

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"The heating has failed several times in the last few years," reports Silvia R .. A few years ago there was a complete renovation.

“But that didn't change anything.

Many tenants are now very disaffected. "

Munich families caught off guard by a heating failure: repairs are delayed

On Tuesday afternoon (January 11th) it looked as if they would all have to continue to freeze.

At first, a short-term repair of the heating was promised, explains Silvia R .. But the tenants were repeatedly put off.

Then she finally got another bad news: "I was told that we have to hold out even longer," she reports.

"A part must first be ordered so that the heating can be repaired."

The thermometer shows 11.5 degrees.

In the long run, "a health hazard", explains the Munich tenants' association.

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At the same time, at temperatures of 11 degrees in the apartment, “a health risk must actually be assumed”, as the Munich tenants' association explains.

"A very high rent reduction is realistic," says the public relations officer Volker Rastätter.

Munich: heating in Dawonia houses is running again - "couldn't believe it"

But in the early evening there was still a pleasant surprise: Silvia R. went into the bathroom - and noticed that it was getting warmer there again.

“I couldn't believe it at first,” she says.

, Dawonia also said

: "The heating is working again." It was not easy to get the services and spare parts so quickly.

The tenants are now happy to finally be able to take off their winter clothes again *: “Everyone in the house will now be sure to really heat up”, says Silvia R.