Originally Posted by
tarwheel
They shut down the boilers at work every year for 2-4 weeks to do maintenance, so we have no hot water during that period. It's crazy. I've never heard of anyone else doing that. I just suffer through it and take cold showers.
I lived in Almaty, KZ, in 97-98 and they would do this twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall. People just accepted it; the old Soviet attitude, I guess.