Hi,
Did a quick search regarding my topic but did not find an answer.
Two bedroom apartment in a Brooklyn apartment building with over 20 apartments and all the people living in the apartment sign the rent stabilized lease.
My questions are:
1) Do I have the right to ask our landlord to upgrade the number of outlets in the living room and "master bedroom"?
2) If so, what would be the best way to approach this?
They are usually pretty obnoxious to any requests that are not emergency repair oriented. For example, once they told us "you don't live on park avenue" for asking that they resolve an issue with flooring that they created during a renovation of the kitchen (that we didn't ask for but appreciated anyway). We ended up spending our own money to make the best of it. This is not something I can do with this due to fire safety issues I imagine.
About 7 years ago, they upgraded my fuse based panel to a circuit breaker panel but without upgrading the wiring in the walls. It has 5 circuits (2-15A & 3-20A). The issue I have is that the outlets around the apartment (except for the bathroom and kitchen) were not upgraded or modified in any way as part of that fuse to circuit breaker upgrade.
The living room has one dual outlet and a dedicated AC outlet, the "master bedroom" has one dual outlet, the second bedroom has 3 dual outlets, the bathroom has one dual GFCI outlet and the kitchen has 3 dual outlets and 1 quad outlet.
The 3-20A circuits feed two kitchen dual outlets (refrigerator and microwave outlets) and the dedicated AC outlet in the living room. The 2-15A circuits feed everything else in the apartment.
The reason I want additional wall outlets to be added is to better distribute the load of the available circuits. Right now, the only way to plug in everything where we want it is to run extension cords to opposite sides of the room and use multi-outlet power strips. The apartment rooms (except the bathroom and kitchen) have not gotten an update since the 1940's. The lack of outlets is a problem given today's dependency on electronic devices.
Ideally, I would add another circuit and add outlets off of that circuit but I am not sure they can or would go for that. I would settle for outlets where I need them if I can.
Thank you for your feedback in advance.