What is an acceptable temperature inside a flat in winter?

Defining cold and warm seems to be highly perceptional, people are different regarding which temperature is warm orcold.

Does anyone know if there is an acceptable temperature range defined by the law for a place to be habitable?

For example, a tenant who has a temperature of 20 in winter, tells the landlord it is too cold and he would like it to be 23, the landlord thinks is too warm and refuses to increase it.

In such a case, does it have to be mutually resolved and agreed upon in a friendly way? or there is a legal definition or range for indoors temperature?

I've looked at this thread and as I said it is very perceptional:

What temperature is your apartment?

Cheers

The law does not define a specific temperatur.

But courts decided a flat should have a minimum temperature of 20°C.

https://www.mieterverband.ch/mv/poli...rme-stube.html #

http://www.beobachter.ch/wohnen/miet...s-tun/#c307129

http://www.hev-zuerich.ch/der_zuerch...-200910-13.htm

also recomended by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy

http://www.hev-zuerich.ch/der_zuerch...-200910-13.htm

The Swiss Home Owner Association recommends a temperatur of 20 - 21°C

http://www.hev-schweiz.ch/vermieten/...nergie-sparen/

The Swiss Home Owner Association Canton Schwyz a temperatur of 22°C

http://www.hev-sz.ch/infos-termine/e...n-beim-heizen/

Ps, here is what the law defines.

https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classifi...ndex.html#a256

Many thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for.

About 23 Kelvin .

For women: 23 topless Kevins.

For men 2-3 naked women

In that scenario you'd be a lot warmer than 20-22 degrees...!

22C?

And here I thought my fellow Schwyzers were made of sterner stuff.

(That might explain why my new furnace is factory programmed for a sauna, and the local maintance guy's head starts to explode each time I explain that yes, I really do want the d*amn thing turned down to 15...)

The foyer where I live recently moved into a new, purpose-built, Minergie building, which we share with a block of sheltered apartments.

When we first moved in, it was freezing. At first the architect insisted it was because the underfloor heating needed a few weeks to 'get started', and because the other apartments were all empty.

Then he admitted there was a problem...

However, one interesting thing I learnt is that here (Vaud), bedrooms only have to be 18°c (the thinking being that you mainly sleep in your bedroom...)

We (the residents) argued that because our bedrooms are our only private spaces for relaxing / studying / writing / surfing the internet* (*delete as appropriate), the heating in our bedrooms should be turned up - because in effect they were a general living room as well as a bedroom.

It worked, and finally, after several months, the rooms are at a reasonable temperature.

On the flip side, I have an elderly friend who lives in an apartment block for refugees. She finds it very cold, but the engineer has come out and measured the temperature as 22-23°c, and so they refuse to adjust the heating, because it is an 'acceptable temperature'. She used to live in an apartment where she had more control over the heating, and she finds it very hard to understand that even though she is cold, the organisation that owns the building can do nothing because legally speaking, her apartment is not cold.

If your apartment is at this 'acceptable temperature' and you are still cold, may I offer my sympathies and suggest the purchase of a onsie? I sleep in mine, with pyjamas and a hot water bottle... but I am a chilly mortal.

Yeah, but only for a few minutes.

BUH BUM, DAH!

Buy a space heater.

Tom

It's currently 2.7K; the electricity bill will be huge.

Kelvins, Kevins, Celvins you name it.... still the responsibility of the landlord to provide all these alternative solutions in case of inadequate heating, to make the place habitable...it is the law

20C is certainly acceptable, below 18C you might have a point.

Tom

I have my onesie on & am quite comfy at 18.c

It sounds a bit communist and the kind of thing expected in North Korea - namely someone else decided how warm or cold your apartment should be.

If you pay the bills, why the hell can't you have it at a temperature you like?

It seems some landlords are getting ideas above their stations.

Those are cool. I am definitely getting one

I should get one for my kid, too. They are so practical. Afterski chill time.

If I turn the radiator off in my Ski Apartment it's 24 degrees, as I want to keep my ski boots dry, I have the heating just on & leave the window open. Fiancée likes the bedroom to be nearer 20 degrees so the window is very wide open

Totally agree. Landlords also wish for tenants to keep apartments ventilated, opening windows daily to allow rooms to be aired. Unlikely to happen if tenants are struggling to keep apartments warm in the first place.

I much prefer radiator controls so you can decide on the temperature of each room. It's a cold bedroom for me