[Kavvy]

Good afternoon all,

My girlfriend and I recently moved into a ground floor condo and find it very hot. I have lived in Condo/Apts before and never experienced this. The unit is heated through the floors (with no vents except the 2 exhaust fans in the bathroom).

Immediately prior to our move in, they fixed a “zone valve” for our apartment, and when I google “in-floor condo zone valve” or infloor condo heat problems, it turns out that if this valve fails, you get your heat on all the time, despite the thermostat setting.

They said they fixed the valve and refuse to check it, sayings condos are just “hot”. I have yet to get a good digital thermometer to leave in our place for proof of the heat, but in the meantime, does anyone have any idea where this valve may be located? All I could find are the hot and cold water mains. If I could find it, how would you tell if it is broken (don’t know the mechanicals of in floor heating, if it is fluid based, I would assume the pipe would be hot on both sides of the valve if it was broken)?

The condo could just be “hot” but this is insane. Also, the floor seems usually warm in some places, and when I close a bathroom door, which has all 4 walls surrounded by my unit, the temperature gets hotter than the rest of the condo overnight/day. Thermodynamics would state that unless there is a heat source in the bathroom (i.e. floor heating), the bathroom should reach the same temperature as the rest of the condo.


Any idea of where I could get the piping schematic for our building?