Heating Issues in School

By: Katie Schouten

     Since the beginning of school in August students at Culver High school have noticed a temperature difference. The HVAC system is the source of the problem. The temperature isn’t the same throughout the school. It depends on where you are located in the building and what day it is, though being cold is the biggest problem. 

     “Sometimes my room temperature is inconsistent,” high school teacher Chris Stevens said. “I wear a long-sleeve shirt to combat the chill.”

     The school’s heating and cooling system isn’t even, the classrooms seem to have different temperatures across the school. Some rooms are worse than others; they are spread across the school and are nowhere near each other. 

     “I think Mr.Ringenberg’s, Mrs.Pitera’s, and Mrs.Overmyer’s are the worst,” freshmen Madlin Hamilton commented. “They can be super cold.”

     People in the school complain daily about the cold in some rooms. It is an everyday thing. But in order to change the problem, the whole system needs repairs. 

     “The issue is addressed often,” Culver High School Principal Brett Berndt stated. “Once we are notified that temperatures are not consistent, we try to adjust the system to correct the problem.”

      Just because the temperature is cold in some classrooms and seems to go on forever doesn’t mean that it goes unnoticed. To help fix the problem, the corporation is replacing a part of the system. The school is going to spend close to a million dollars to fix the original system from 1968. But the project will be going into action over the summer. So there still may be some issues in the time between now and then. 

     “The solution is to continue to monitor the HVAC system. We are replacing one section this summer,” says Berndt. “Hopefully that will help with consistent temperatures in the future.”