“I’m probably not going to be able to survive this type of weather on my own” – Salford accommodation students to face winter with faulty heaters

After years of complaints, Salford students living under Campus Living Village accommodations are being expected to face this winter with old, faulty or non-functioning heating systems.

Allegedly there are least 50 students with faulty heaters, accommodations say they are unable to fix this problem due to the age of the infrastructure.

Mulan Sales, an international second year student doing Software Engineering, who lives in the John Lester and Eddie Colman Court, she said: “First, they told us that they would get a team to come check it out.

“After maybe a week or two, a team would come and check it out and would tell us they tried to fix it on their own… they said that they can’t do anything to fix it.”

The accommodation still tries to support students by providing them with a replacement portable heater.

However, Mulan worries about the upcoming winter cold and if the replacement will be enough to keep her warm.

She said: “We’re paying like 20 pounds extra more and we don’t get proper heating in our rooms, and instead we get a smaller heater that doesn’t even work as well.

“Our kitchen heater is also not working, it’s been like that since before I arrived, according to my very first roommate that lived here.

“I’m worried especially as an international student, I’m probably not going to be able to survive this type of weather on my own.”

Heaters in the building have been a reoccurring maintenance complaint for hundreds of students over the years, mostly because of their broken fuses too old to replace or fix.

When asked if other students have received replacements she said: “Yes they have, but one of them actually was not given a portable heater just yet.

“She’s requested for it, but she hasn’t heard back from them yet.”

Campus Living Village (CLV) offers accommodation to hundreds of thousands of students across the country, they host two different villages in Salford.

In Salford, the John Lester and Eddie Colman Court accommodations run with a heating system based on thermal energy storage, it stores room temperatures for 24 hours and releases it afterwards, this system was created in the 1960s.

Both Student Union and Campus Living Village have been approached to comment, both have yet to respond.