Communal heating admin and service charges

tim123456789

da_rule wrote: »

Not unreasonable at all.

Firstly, would you want to be using a system that wasn't maintained?

Of course it's unreasonable

It's a LL's responsibility to keep the heating/hot water system maintained, not the tenants

tim

tim123456789

jbainbridge wrote: »

3 months of heating and hot water for £118 ... from where I'm sitting that's a great deal!

It's what I pay in my flat

and I just have normal GCH

tim

rentalforever

The landlord agreed to pay the admin and extra fees in the end without too much of a fuss. For my most recent quarterly bill of £98, I am only liable for £30 of it. Which for two of us living in a modern one-bed flat is very reasonable.

This will go up slightly over the winter period but not by much because these new builds are very good at retaining heat and because we're on the third floor, I suspect I'm getting the benefit of heat rising from the floors below.

NineDeuce

Forget the breakdown, £1 per day fixed charge is expensive for a domestic property; but you signed a contract I imagine?

rentalforever

It's not £1/day, I'm paying roughly £30/quarter.

cjmillsnun

martindow wrote: »

£119 a quarter is slightly less than you're paying so it seems as good a deal as you have.

Yes, but the cost he/she is paying include all of his/her electricity, including lighting and cooking. The £119/quarter being billed to the OP does not inde this.

cjmillsnun

rentalforever wrote: »

The landlord agreed to pay the admin and extra fees in the end without too much of a fuss. For my most recent quarterly bill of £98, I am only liable for £30 of it. Which for two of us living in a modern one-bed flat is very reasonable.

This will go up slightly over the winter period but not by much because these new builds are very good at retaining heat and because we're on the third floor, I suspect I'm getting the benefit of heat rising from the floors below.

That's a good result.

NineDeuce

rentalforever wrote: »

It's not £1/day, I'm paying roughly £30/quarter.

Your original post said £82 SC for a three month period.....

ontoitarethey

How can you access that without confirming the Kw charged and the volume of water used ;-)

I use district heating and noticed in the summer the heat hot water cycle consumes far too much energy in comparison to alternatives. In fact we use enough energy to heat all our 175litres of mains water to 38C including the toilet water!!!!

hitman88

Please sign the petition to regulate the communal heating industry - change.org - legal regulation of communal or district heating industry.