Several Comstock residents have reached out to FOX 9 reporters regarding multiple rooms that have been experiencing heating issues. FOX 9 reported the problems arose from air trapped in the system when Comstock Hall made the seasonal transition from air conditioning to heating.

Housing & Residential Life (HRL) director Susan Stubblefield wrote in an email to the Daily that HRL has received reports of Comstock rooms experiencing heating issues. HRL anticipates that the issues should be addressed to mitigate these one-off room requests by the end of the day today.

HRL did not respond in time to a request to provide the number of rooms affected or what the technical issues in question were.

“During routine heating system maintenance in the fall, issues can arise,” Stubblefield said in the email. “Because we’ve had an exceptionally warm fall, some of those issues weren’t apparent until the dip in temperature last week led to cooler than expected rooms.”

Stubblefield said in the email there are certain areas or rooms of Comstock that may need to be fixed individually from a mechanical standpoint, but anticipates that the issues with one-off room requests should be addressed by today.

“We sent a message to Comstock residents yesterday reminding them to submit a maintenance request (called a Fix It ticket) if they are experiencing a lack of heat in their room, so that the facilities staff can fix it,” Stubblefield said.

Stubblefield said that maintenance staff has responded within 24 hours to cold room reports. She added electric space heaters were also made available to residents experiencing issues.

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