Lodger and overnight guests

G_M

Calleja wrote: »

Although I'm not sure the durex machine is needed considering my lodger is female and so are most of her overnight guests, any other alternative ideas people have come up for dealing with this are most welcome!

In that case perhaps a machine dispensing feminine hygene products?

Old_Git

my thoughts are ,tell the lodger guests/partner can stay provided the lodger stays at the partner's house for the same number of nights.

if they have guests for 3 nights the lodger expected to stay elsewhere for 3 nights .

You are then guaranteed a few nights on your own

gazter

We've not needed to enforce 'reasonableness'. I think it would be stretched if it was every weekend. I would say two to four nights a month and anything after that and they have to start contributing.
Ps. To the poster who felt that they should keep to the same rules as their lodger, I disagree. It's your house and you do whatever you want.

AdrianC

Calleja wrote: »

Given that my lodger pays an all-inclusive rent, is it fair to ask that she contributes a couple of pounds towards bills for every night she has overnight guests? ...I feel I set my rent at a price to cover utilities for her, not her and her friends. I appreciate gas and electric aren't going to increase loads, I guess I can just hear my water meter ticking when her friends are in the shower...!

I think you might like to have a closer look at your actual bills, and see exactly how fast that water meter isn't ticking... Looking at my own water supplier's website, and ignoring the fixed costs, they charge £1.35 per cubic metre of water - one thousand litres - which they estimate to 28 showers, or less than 5p for a shower's worth of water...

Might as well figure the extra wear and tear on carpets whilst you're about it.

Dird

This thread just sounds kinkier as it goes. An orgy (guests plural) of women in the next room; I'd install a peep hole OP thinking of them while they're in the shower

I think I need a gf :f

Herbalus

Dird wrote: »

This thread just sounds kinkier as it goes. An orgy (guests plural) of women in the next room; I'd install a peep hole OP thinking of them while they're in the shower

I think I need a gf :f

I think it's just you on that front.

Yes guests is plural, but it doesn't mean they're all there at the same time, scantily clad and having pillow fights....

westv

Herbalus wrote: »

I think it's just you on that front.

Yes guests is plural, but it doesn't mean they're all there at the same time, scantily clad and having pillow fights....

Damn!
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HappyMJ

AdrianC wrote: »

I think you might like to have a closer look at your actual bills, and see exactly how fast that water meter isn't ticking... Looking at my own water supplier's website, and ignoring the fixed costs, they charge £1.35 per cubic metre of water - one thousand litres - which they estimate to 28 showers, or less than 5p for a shower's worth of water...

Might as well figure the extra wear and tear on carpets whilst you're about it.

How many people actually have 3 minute showers? Assuming a flow rate of 12 litres/minute 28 showers uses 1,000 litres...okay only if they're 3 minute showers. I'm assuming a combi boiler supplying shower directly or by using stored water in a cylinder. An electric shower flow rate may be only 4 litres per minute and you could get 9 minute showers instead.

I estimate a more average 6 minute shower costs about 30p each including the cost of either electricity or gas to heat the water. Still at 5p/minute it's not that bad...

Calleja

Thanks for all of the responses, particularly the ones doing the maths for me! I think I just have a hang up about water - having lived in a country where clean water was sparse, I am extremely good at saving on water, and I just get upset when I see my lodger use three bowlfuls of water to do one lot of dishes in the evening! I have an outdoor meter so I have to wait until my bill comes before seeing how much an extra person is contributing to the cost.


I will have a think about how to tackle it with the next lodger - thanks for all the tips.