No kitchen.. Hrm.

Ellie007

Good point about drinking water. Although I have to say that I don't drink the water at home anyway and always buy bottled (sounds extravagant but it is just the cheapy stuff, not Evian ) as our water has a tendency to come out a little bit less than clear and has the most foul metallic taste. We buy a big multi-pack of the Tesco scottish stuff and it is only a couple of pounds a week.

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Morganarla wrote: »

Is water from the bathroom not safe to drink or something? I've always drunk from the bathroom tap and not died yet!

Depends on the set up. If it's a flat it's probable the water in the bathroom comes from the mains just like it would the kitchen, if it had a kitchen. If the water comes from a water tank then it's still safe to drink but it might taste a bit odd and won't be the healthiest water to drink but it won't kill you.

Ellie007

Re: plugging the oven/hob into a normal wall socket, I don't think you can as I believe it needs its own, dedicated, higher-rated circuit (with the on/off switch). But I may be wrong.

RAS

Hi

You cannot plug a normal oven/hob into a normal socket.

I would suggest a few things.

1. Check the Council Tax situation; is this property properly registered for CT? If not take advice.
2. Find out what the heating situation is; there have been several people on here with "flats" over shops/office whose heating has been on the same system as the business premises below. They have no control over when the heating is on (generally in the weekdays/daytime only) and have no control over the costs as it is not separately metered so nasty bills appear.
3. Find out where the electricity and water meters are. If you are on the same circuits as the business premises, the bills can only be estimated and the LL can fleece you.
4. You will need a lot of sockets and a decent power circuit to run the equipment you need even if only a fridge, cooker, kettle etc on top of the day to day non-kitchen stuff. Count the sockets and check all of them work before you sign anything. Find out the maximum load on the mains power circuit.
5. A little old fashioned spinner can be voided into the loo or sink and would give you the capacity to do samll amounts of washing at home.

Morganarla

RAS wrote: »

Hi

You cannot plug a normal oven/hob into a normal socket.

I would suggest a few things.

1. Check the Council Tax situation; is this property properly registered for CT? If not take advice.
2. Find out what the heating situation is; there have been several people on here with "flats" over shops/office whose heating has been on the same system as the business premises below. They have no control over when the heating is on (generally in the weekdays/daytime only) and have no control over the costs as it is not separately metered so nasty bills appear.
3. Find out where the electricity and water meters are. If you are on the same circuits as the business premises, the bills can only be estimated and the LL can fleece you.
4. You will need a lot of sockets and a decent power circuit to run the equipment you need even if only a fridge, cooker, kettle etc on top of the day to day non-kitchen stuff. Count the sockets and check all of them work before you sign anything. Find out the maximum load on the mains power circuit.
5. A little old fashioned spinner can be voided into the loo or sink and would give you the capacity to do samll amounts of washing at home.

RAS, thanks! Lots of stuff here I didn't think of!

martinsurrey

EmmaHerts wrote: »

May I recommend http://www.belling.co.uk/baby-belling/baby-belling-mini-kitchen-mk318/

I was brought up with these, my mum could cook a Sunday roast for 4 between 2 of them (we did a lot of live in referbs).

the linked one is a good one, you can use a ring and the oven at the same time on some its one or the other.

DaftyDuck

Ask about the hob in the In My Home section of the Forum below, there are real sparkies bumping around in the dark down there, and they'll give you a straight answer...

My convoluted answer would be :no Oven+hob would be far too much for the ring main; it'd need a separate spur (£££). You could possibly run it as just a hob, or just an oven, but even then, it'd draw nearly too much power.Given there's no kitchen, you may be sharing a ring main with other parts of the building (you are separately metered?), and the 'leccy might be a bit dodgy... you blow it; you may have expensive repair to pay yourself... bang goes the cooker, and bang goes your saving!

hazyjo

I lived at my BF's (well, ex-BF's) flat for a while. We had no drinking water and would buy the 17p bottles from Tesco (in grocery delivery every 2 weeks), plus we had no oven and would use a mini-oven (without hob), plus a George Forman grill, and microwave. No washing machine either, but used the one at my house.

Managed very well - don't think there was anything we couldn't cook (maybe lasagne was the only thing!).

It is doable!

Jx

RAS

Morganarla wrote: »

RAS, thanks! Lots of stuff here I didn't think of!

Yes but I have done up two houses which had

1. 1 socket per room downstairs and a single socket upstairs (on the landing)
2. One socket for round pin plugs per room, all on spurs

JimmyTheWig

Morganarla wrote: »

it'd be more like a year..:eek:

For me that would be a "no", but I guess it depends how eager you are to be debt free and what the alternatives would be for saving £300 a month.
Would also depend on other places (e.g. parents) where you are welcome for dinner every now and again...

Drinking water I guess from the bathroom sink?

Bathroom water often comes from a cold water tank (which is warmer than mains water, so more efficient to mix with hot water to run a bath) which has been sitting around in the tank for some time. And so not ideal to drink.