house bills

[james160987]

next year i will be moving out into a house my dad is purchasing, he is going to pay the morgage but me and a few others are going to have to do the house bills

if its not infriding to much on your personal business would a few people mind specifying

1. how many are in the family
2. what size house are you in
3. a rought breakdown of bills, (food excluded)

[Cronos]

Might be a bit easier if you told us a bit more about the house (age, rooms, etc) and occupants so we could give you a better idea of what to expect.

Things you'll have to consider are :

Council Tax
Water
Gas
Electricity
Telephone / Mobile
Cable / Sky
Home Contents Insurance
Buildings Insurance
Annual service for heating, etc.
TV Licence
Repairs / contingency

[arenalife]

Single guy, 2 bed terraced house.

Council Tax £65
Water £26 fixed
Gas £15
Electricity £18
Home Contents Insurance £28
Buildings Insurance (in above)
TV Licence £8ish
Phone £12

[james160987]

when we move in there will be 4 of us to start with, maybe one more if we rent out a room to someone

all aged 19 rougly, all full time working

proberly looking at a 4 bedroom house,

[Alpinestarhero]

Me and my girlfriend rent a flat. Bills aren't too much - for the last quarter, we where charged £24 for electricity (haven't received a gas bill yet). We are with seaboard for both, so we get a little discount for the whole "dual fuel" thing.


Matt

[arenalife]

Oh yeah, stay away from British Gas at all costs (leccy or gas). They take imcompetence and arrogance to a possibly new level.

[glade]

2 people, 2 bed end of terrace.

Council tax
115.00

EDF energy (gas and electricity)
50.00

TV Licence (will go down after 6 months because of the way they take a years fee by direct debit)
26.30

Thames Water
16.00

BT Phone bill was £120 this quarter with "BT Callmobile" and "BT Broadband Option 2"

£327 On a bad month, £207 on a good month.

[kwak zzr]

4 bed semi 2 adults and 2 children.

gas £35
elec £35
c tax £90
water £30
b band £20
sky £21
phone £free with b band.
build/cont ins £18
tv lic £9

[Warthog]

TV Licence (will go down after 6 months because of the way they take a years fee by direct debit)
26.30


Yeah what is it with that!? Surely you only cancel your TV license when you die, then they get 6 months extra out of you! I am half thinking about cancelling it and waiting six more months on the amoun I have already paid. Its just another way of getting more money out of people so they can invest it in high-interest accounts and make even more money. I hate it.

For me, its me and my bird in a 2 bed terraced house.
Council tax - £168 (!!! Oxford prices!!!)

Rest is about the same as others, only just moved in.

[keithd]

5 bed detached

don't worry about bills, we're minted

not much help really am i?

[embee]

Oh yeah, stay away from British Gas at all costs (leccy or gas). They take imcompetence and arrogance to a possibly new level.

I'd been with Grittish Bass for 20yrs (gas only) and never had any probs, so ignored all the warnings and went dual fuel with them in June this year. Disaster. :roll:

They messed up the direct debit so missed one payment (elect is only £15 a month based on 20yrs in the same property so pretty accurate).

After 2 months they decided I was in arrears (!) so wanted to increase the DD from £15 to £33. I phoned, the guy understood the problem and agreed it made no sense, said leave it at £15 and in 6months the review would sort it out. Great.

Today I got a letter saying the "twice yearly" review (the last one was in August and it's the second since June! :? ) says the DD is going up from £15 to £42/month.

I phoned an hour ago (still incandescent with rage as we speak :evil: ), the lady said there was nothing could be done, she could only offer to reduce it by 10% (to £37-80) or take me off DD altogether (which by the way then loses you the discounts, only she didn't bother to tell me that).

I asked why the rise, she said because people use more electricity in winter. I asked the status of my account, she said I was 21p in credit.

So having missed one DD in 6months due to their incompetence, and paid 5 installments of £15 after which I am in credit, they decide I need to almost treble my payments. You figure. :roll:

I am waiting for a call from someone who can deal with it, if that doesn't materialise PDQ it's off to another supplier no messing. These people cannot be tolerated, they must treat the customer better than that.

[Demonz]

next year i will be moving out into a house my dad is purchasing, he is going to pay the morgage but me and a few others are going to have to do the house bills

if its not infriding to much on your personal business would a few people mind specifying

1. how many are in the family
2. what size house are you in
3. a rought breakdown of bills, (food excluded)


Wish my dad had done this for me - lucky fellow! If you collect rent off the others and you will be sweet.

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[james160987]

its not as lucky as some might like to think in other ways

1, the house im currently in has a market value of around 450,000 i would imagine, lowest valuation was 375, highest was 580 i think. + my mum has won that in the divorce case and my dad has had to give her the house, plus all possesions minus a few things, and then now also has to pay 700 pound a month for my sister in child care for the next year or so(like it costs 700 a month to raise a a teen)

so now he has nothing,
so the house he will be buying will be for me and him to stay in when he is in the uk (he works abroad)

my girlfriend
her twin
her twins bf (also my best m8)
and me

are all on relativly low earning jobs/apprenchips so we are going to cover bills to start with and him the morgage, plus maybe rent out a room to help a bit also this way morgage should be paid off in about 5 years ish (dad works abroad so can manage to get some pretty high paid jobs but onyl cause hes good at what he does, project mnager oil and gas,)


so lucky in some ways yes, but divorce and losing a house completly id say was unlucky

[tricky]

Two bed town house, two inhabitants

Council Tax Band B £112 per mth over 10 mths, Band C £127 per month (Add a further £15 for each additional Band)

Buildings & Contents Insurance £28

Gas & Electric £40

Water (meter) £21

Cable Telephone & Broadband £60 (£30 through NTL for basic pack)

TV Licence £11

Contingency for Boilers etc £10



Total Per Month £282

[the_runt69]

more than i earn, thank god for rostered O/T

H

[chunkytfg]

300 a month would probably cover your needs. My 4 bed house is currently costing about that a month. If you decrease in size though the cost doesnt go down dramatically. My 1 bed flat for when i'm working in london is about another 300 a month