Student Housing

roadiegirl

I am currently in the process of sorting out a house to live in next year. I'm currently in halls and I don't know how much to budget towards my bills? If anyone could help that would be brilliant

Lokolo

5 bedroom house.

£8 for internet, tv and phone each.
£90 every term for gas and elec each.

Approximations though.

roadiegirl

I probably should have put, 3 bedroom house. Phone and internet is already covered, we just need to do gas/electric/water really. TV one of my housemates Dad is going to sort out and pay for (hes a sky engineer). But thankyou for your help!

rozmister

I lived in a 5 bed last year and we each put in about £45 a month for bills. We had a joint account so it all came out by D/D which made it much more manageable then waiting for bills to come especially as some of my housemates spent all their loan within a month of getting it! We had internet included in that which was I think £40 a month so maybe you'd need to put in £35 - £40 a month.

With your gas make sure to phone them with regular meter readings because otherwise they make estimations that are wildly under and you get stung with a huge bill when you finally give a reading and it turns out they've been billing you hundreds of pounds less than you used!