{"id":395184,"date":"2026-01-08T02:31:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/395184\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T02:31:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T02:31:18","slug":"trois-rivieres-apartment-freezes-into-ice-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/395184\/","title":{"rendered":"Trois-Rivi\u00e8res apartment freezes into &#8216;ice castle&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An apartment in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Que. has been nicknamed the &#8220;ice castle&#8221; after a tenant left the property and turned off the heat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An apartment in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Que. about two hours east of Montreal, has been nicknamed the \u201cice castle\u201d after a tenant left the property and turned off the heat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The frigid winter weather caused the pipes to burst, sending water and ice pouring into the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere is water in the ceilings, in the walls, everywhere. Mould will grow,\u201d Jacques Nault of Logispro Mauricie, which owns the building, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.noovo.info\/nouvelles\/societe\/article\/chateau-de-glace-un-logement-completement-gele-a-cause-dun-locataire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.noovo.info\/nouvelles\/societe\/article\/chateau-de-glace-un-logement-completement-gele-a-cause-dun-locataire\/\">Noovo Info<\/a>. \u201cWe are going to strip, dry and rebuild according to what is covered by insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He says he\u2019s never heard of such an extreme situation occurring before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nault laments that due to the rising cost of living, some tenants are trying to save electricity by turning off the heat when they\u2019re not home, such as when they go on vacation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He points out that people must heat their homes properly to avoid freezing pipes in the winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEverything is expensive. The cost of living is getting higher and higher,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople want to save money. For them, heating doesn\u2019t make much difference. If they\u2019re not in the home, they say to themselves, \u2018Let\u2019s lower the electricity costs.\u2019 I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a good way to save money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/TCGPC4YWTVHNXJNLCRIZMT56H4.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Chateau de glace 2 An apartment in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Que. has been nicknamed the \u201cice castle\u201d after a tenant left the property and turned off the heat. (Noovo Info) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The former tenant of the ice castle had not been living in the home for several months and was no longer paying rent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was officially evicted on Monday, Jan. 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Nault explains that the home is part of a triplex, and the icy situation was discovered during a visit to a neighbouring unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The two other homes completing the triplex were not affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An apartment in Trois-Rivi\u00e8res, Que. has been nicknamed the &#8220;ice castle&#8221; after a tenant left the property and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[712,49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-395184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}