Wonderful website you have here. I hope you can help answer our question. Is there a minimum amount of electricity that a landlord is supposed to provide an apartment?
Our apartment has had its electrical power knocked out 5 times in the last 6 months. Four times, the overload did not set off the circuit breaker in the apartment but instead blew a fuse in the hallway (15 amp fuse which seems to my layman eyes to be not enough electric power for a 2-bedroom apartment). The last time, the overload skipped both the circuit breaker in the apartment and the fuse in the hallway and blew a fuse in the basement of the building.
We have one air conditioner used during the summer and one small space heater in the winter. The bedroom would be intolerable to use without the space heater. It appears that the fuse blew last time when I had the heater on, a George Foreman grill and a toaster along with TV and three lights. Is this an unreasonable amount of electricity to be drawing in a 2-bedroom apt?
Please advise. Thank you very much!