<p>I have a roomate that has his heater on all the time, even when its warm outside( temps in 60s and 70s). He leaves it on at night, and during the day even and the air becomes incredibly dry and warm and therefore it is difficult to sleep. I can barely breathe that air. I asked him to turn it off at least during the night but he wont. He says he gets cold, but he sleeps with very light blankets. Also, he turns the fan on at the same time, so it spreads the hot dry air. Its not even winter yet, and this is Southern California!</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of a residence hall allowing students to bring heaters and run them in their rooms. This is probably against the housing policy. If he refuses to compromise on the issue, threaten to report to the RD that he’s using the heater.</p>
<p>why would someone heat the room and then turn the fan on? that’s like turning on the AC in winter, and then bundling up in a warm coat and complaining it’s too cold. </p>
<p>idk, maybe he is from the desert and making it unbearably hot and having the fan on reminds him of life back in arizona. first try talking to him about it logically, because what he’s doing is just stupid. if that doesn’t work, you might want to send the RA and anonymous message about the portable heater in your room, and then act surprised when he comes in and confiscates it.</p>
<p>He should get a frigging blanket. What the heck?
I get cold, my roommate got hot, so we agreed not to turn on the air conditioning (I would have like 2 blankets on me) or the heater. It worked out.</p>
<p>My RA resolved the issue between my roommate and I in October. This week, I realized that the room temperature was much warmer than normal. I also started to notice that I have not been sleeping well lately. I wondered why. Nights passed fitfully and I woke up every hour and in the morning feeling like I never slept. On Thursday night the heat was unbearable. I mean it felt like a furnace, or like a car on a hot summer day. I looked at my thermometer in the room and it read 102 degrees farenheit. I woke up at 3 in the morning sweating and feeling like passing out. I knew something was wrong. I looked carefully and realized he had brought in another heater and concealed it by placing items around it camouflaging it. I also realized that he had turned the fan on full blast. I turned it off. In the morning he opened the windows fully, releasing in cold air as a way of letting out his anger. I told him that the room temperature was way too hot. I even showed him my thermometer. He became defensive and told me I had an inaccurate thermometer. I talked to my RA about it and he said I may need to get another room… Wow.</p>
<p>OMG 102 DEGREES??? I’d die. I’m always hot, so I open the windows in the winter and leave the thermostat at 60 in the summer. I’m soooooo lucky my roommate doesn’t care. He looks chilly in the mornings… but he only uses a sheet to sleep with so I don’t feel bad.</p>
<p>It’s unfair that you’d have to move, but I think the logic I’d put behind it is that they don’t want to pass him off to some other, more terrible roommate. Rather, it’s better for the roommate who has the most social skills to make things better for the next person to get stuck with them.</p>