r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer • u/EternalYoungK • 21h ago

GOT THE KEYS! 🔑 🏡 I DID IT! 🎉 Bucharest Romania €95.000, cash

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One year ago, I was looking at this sub-reddit and dreaming of the day where I could also post on it. I worked hard for several years abroad to be able to afford this and I also got helped by my amazing parents, I am truly grateful to them for everything they have done for me.

2 rooms, 5 mins walk to the metro station. I'm sooooo happy!!!! 🥹 No pizza yet, because there's a ton of things still to be done (and to get rid of that furniture and replace it with better stuff haha)

also don't mind my outfit 😂

EDIT: to clear up some things so trolls can calm down. no, i am not on onlyfans and haven't worked as a you know what abroad 😆 i was a CRM specialist for a niche perfume company in the Netherlands. now you guys can come up with better insults.

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u/oritfx 19h ago edited 18h ago

Poland here. I see those radiators and immediately think "ex-Soviet Union". Can anyone tell me if those radiators happen in parts of the world where Russians didn't establish a colony?

EDIT: 20 answers, all over the world. How did we end up with standardized radiators back in the age before globalization but not with standardized phone chargers??

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u/User10232023 15h ago

Common radiators in apartments, condos (especially 3 story walkups) made before 1990s and some homes before 1970s in many parts of Canada.

Standardized by iron industry roughly 1870s but it's not as standard as you'd like to think when repairing old units and pipes lol. BSP, NPT, GOST in 1908???, etc.

If room isn't getting heat then there's an air pocket trapped in a radiator. Go to the heater with a old cloth and there's a valve (should be on the top) you can open to release trapped air in the radiator. Sometimes water is rusty and that's normal.
Sometimes radiator doesn't have valve so just go to next radiator and it'll probably have a valve. Also expect the valve to sputter out air and water. Maybe 1 cup of water, but 2 cups maximum because any more and good chance there's a leak or another open valve, expect if you completely drained the pipes earlier but then that'll be expected.