The heating component went out in our home at least a month ago, possibly longer, however at first, I wasn’t too worried because it was not Winter time yet, and the fall weather was still fairly warm; Not only that, however there were a lot of repairs that were going to be done at our home, and I figured the landlord would notice the malfunctioning heating component and repair it, however i suppose I should have known better than that, because the gas furnace program went unnoticed and was never repaired, by the time I let our landlord know of the issue, it was already the start of winter; The landlord tried to call out their heating and a/c repair man, although he was already booked with other heating and cooling repair appointments.
The landlord told me that the waiting time was another several weeks, however well, I couldn’t go without heating for several weeks, and while I considered getting a space heater, I heard some exhausting things about those and the thought of a fire hazard in an home did not kneel well with me.
I decided to use our electric oven as a heating source, and I would keep our electric oven open with a fan above it, blowing all of the moderate air out and further into our apartment. Thankfully, I didn’t have to do this too often, as the heat was good enough to last a while. I will be blissful to have our common furnace back though, because increasing the control component is much easier than using the electric oven.