Rising cost of living

[Jaymoss]

Originally Posted by Mr K

Are you on a water meter?

How would he know the per annum rate if he was?

[denphone]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Yeah think mines £23 or something, I begrudge them every penny to

Ours is around £45 per quarter which is good compared to our energy bills.

[spiderplant]

Originally Posted by Paul

Wow, how many swimming pools do you have.

Taf's in Wales. Water is famously scarce there.

[Taf]

From £61.79pm to £68.71pm. Welsh Water has no shareholders, and the adverts say it's "Not for profit".

No meter, no swimming pools, the garden is watered by rainwater from 2 butts.

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I just looked at Anglian Water charges. Up from £581.35 to £663. That's 14% up!

Mine is £418.81 for 2023.

Scottish Water was never privatised and water/sewage charges are set nationally and based on council tax bands. If you’re in a band D house you paid £478 for the year just passed and £502 from this April. At band F I’ve been paying £691 and this will go up to £725.

I was blessed with a communal septic tank at my old house which cost about £500 to empty, every 3 years, split between 7 houses - saved us a fortune on sewage charges over the years we were there.

(Edited with correct figures for last year and this year)

Originally Posted by Paul

Mine is £418.81 for 2023.

Looking at previous bills, its gone up by 10.8%, which is actually less than last year, when it went up by 11.1%.

Ours is up about 5% this year.

[TheDaddy]

Just got the service charge for the flat, £2909

More than double last years and two thirds more than 2020's

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Just got the service charge for the flat, £2909

More than double last years and two thirds more than 2020's

What do you get for that?

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

What do you get for that?

Not a lot, cleaning, communal heating, minor repairs, buildings insurance, that kind of thing, nothing special, oh and ten quid ground rent

[GrimUpNorth]

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Not a lot, cleaning, communal heating, minor repairs, buildings insurance, that kind of thing, nothing special, oh and ten quid ground rent

That seems a lot of money for pretty little in return. Have you and your neighbours thought about self managing?

[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth

That seems a lot of money for pretty little in return. Have you and your neighbours thought about self managing?

We're not all owners sadly, I am going to email them tomorrow though, if nothing else to get a grip on next years increase

Originally Posted by TheDaddy

Not a lot, cleaning, communal heating, minor repairs, buildings insurance, that kind of thing, nothing special, oh and ten quid ground rent

Yeah, mine has gone up £40 a month! To about £2,800!

Many of us from the building will challenge for the same reason as making it clear they can't fleece us further the following year. It's something like a 20% increase overall, which is unsustainable in the long term, especially when you think further increases are a percentage increase over the existing massive increase!

It'll become impossible to sell if service charges get too high as well.

[Taf]

For those that had bought their flats under Right-To-Buy, service charges were already higher than the full council rent we were paying. And they each got clobbered to pay 1/124th of the cost of overcladding, new windows and doors, plus safety upgrades.