The new house is undecorated and uninhabited. Do I have to pay for heating?

The new house is not decorated and nobody lives in it. As long as you don't ask the heating company for heating, you don't need to pay the heating fee.

Taking Linyi as an example, according to Article 25 of the Regulations on Heating in Linyi City, if a user requests to suspend or resume the use of heat, he/she shall put forward and go through relevant procedures to the heating enterprise 30 days before the start of the heating period every year.

Twenty-sixth heating facilities with household control conditions, the user requests to suspend heating, heating enterprises can cut off their heating pipelines, cutting and recovery costs borne by the heating enterprises. Heating facilities do not have household control conditions, and if the user requests to suspend heating, the thermal facilities shall be cut off. Users can cut off power by themselves, or entrust heating enterprises to implement it, and the cost of power failure recovery shall be borne by users.

Extended data:

"Linyi heating regulations" Article 12 heating enterprises and users shall sign heat supply contracts according to law. The format text of the heat supply contract shall be reported to the competent heating department for the record.

Thirteenth residential areas with heating conditions, the number of households applying for heat consumption reached more than 50% of the total number of households, heating enterprises should provide heat. If the above standards are not met, heating can be provided after mutual agreement. The standards prescribed in the preceding paragraph and other relevant contents, the county people's governments, Linyi Lingang Economic Development Zone Management Committee, Linyi Mengshan Tourism Resort Management Committee can formulate specific measures separately according to local actual conditions.

Linyi Municipal Government-Linyi Heating Regulations