Renting - Bills

PasturesNew

jenny_f wrote: »

Thanks - would this be £250 each of £250 for the both (so £125 each)

£125 each.

For one person it's about £200, for two people it's about £250 (so £125 each). That is because most of the costs are fixed and two people won't be using double. e.g. you have one TV license, you have one standing charge for water, one standing charge for gas, one standing charge for electricity.

PasturesNew

superfran_uk wrote: »

Surely you mean £25 - £30 a week! My partner and I spend about £200 in a month on food/drink/supermarket shopping bits (note - we could get this down if we had to but we can afford it so why the hell not). I don't know how you'd even survive on a tenth of this though.

I spend £10/week. You are treating yourselves quite a bit.

PasturesNew

Note: all gas and electricity is metered. What the posters are referring to above is a "pre payment meter", where you pay up front for gas/electricity. This method is more expensive than paying by direct debit and is usually used where there have been payment problems in the past. Another issue with a pre-payment meter is that if a property has one and the place has been empty for some time, it will still be adding up the weekly/monthly standing charge and as soon as you put the pre-payment card into the meter it will start to deduct payment for the time before you were even there, so watch out for that... it should be the landlord's responsibility for standing charges before you arrive.

retepetsir

You may or may not have a water meter installed. We have one for our 2-bedroom flat and have just had out payments set at £13/month after a year of being here (used to be £10 but this wasn't quite enough). Quick breakdown for us per month, we then pay a lump sum each into a joint account each month:

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Dual Fuel Tariff, Gas = £30, Elec = £30

We are using much less gas in the summer so hope to build up some credit for winter. Our electric is usually £25 or less (other half uses the TV a lot and we cook most nights on an electric stove).

Council Tax = £130 (not cheap round here)

Water Supply = £13

Sewerage = £7

TV Licence = £12

O2 Broadband = £12

BT Line Rental/Free Eve & Weekend Calls = £12

Food/Drink/Household (Washing powder, etc) = £200

We like lots of fresh fruit/veg and things like household items can be costly on occasions, it offers us a bit of a buffer anyway.

Contents Insurance = £8

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schueys_girl - your water bill seems quite cheap to be honest, especially if that includes sewerage too. Also only £5-£10 per week gas in winter is good too!

So just under £250 for us for bills plus another £200 on food - ouch! :eek:

schueys_girl

retepetsir - i guess its not too bad - we are not metered for water, so i guess we are not doing bad £17.58 a month for water then unmetered...with sewerage included in that!

I didnt realise really what "other" peoples bills are!

We are in a 2 bed house.

Is £10 a week on gas when its cold in winter good?! I had no idea!