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What % of your income goes on BASIC utilities?
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For a family I know it is fascinating. They live in a very large 1980's house, that I accept is carefully designed and insulated.
The council tax is £1000, the heating, hot water and lighting £600, water, sewerage and drainage £500, phone, broadband and TV £360. This gives a total of £2460. But they get an income of £1800 from their pv panels. So once the panels are paid off, in they estimate about four years, the utility costs will be £12.30 per week.0 -
7.6% on those 4 things."One day I realised that when you are lying in your grave, it's no good saying, "I was too shy, too frightened."
Because by then you've blown your chances. That's it."0 -
Just under 11% for us0
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Around 9.06% on our joint monthly income goes on the basic utilities.
With all 4 (gas £47, electric £36, council tax £85, & water £31.50) it amounts to £199.50 per month.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Following another thread about rent/mortgage, the next question has to be about BASIC utilities. This isn't the cost of your Sky, or iPhone. But "the basics".
So, how much of your TOTAL household take-home income (including any benefits, maintenance, etc) goes on just:- Council tax
- Gas
- Water
- Electricity.
Currently 4.4% of our combined net income but that will rise to around 5.5% once we move into a new house as the current one is only in band C.0 -
Isn't a percentage pretty pointless to compare?0
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Around 15% of DH's income - our house is neither large nor small, in a rural area where there is no mains gas so we have oil (plus a multi-fuel stove) and our one big indulgence is a hot tub which is admittedly quite expensive to run......
Our last quarterly electricity bill was £440 and our oil tank costs around £800 to fill - gulp!
Council tax-wise though, we are fortunate to have gone from band F at our last house to C here as we were downsizing and whilst personally we have found Wilshire to be a much *nicer* place than Essex (where we lived for three years after moving from Hants) properties overall seem to be banded lower here.....Mortgage-free for fourteen years!
Over £40,000 mis-sold PPI reclaimed0 -
Just done the calculation of the four basics in the OP and 4.4% of combined income0
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Works out 11-12% for the basic
Have no gas as property has heat source pump.0
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