20-02-2023, 15:50
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#706
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Just a Geek
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Re: Rising cost of living
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Originally Posted by Mr K
Are you on a water meter?
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How would he know the per annum rate if he was?
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20-02-2023, 16:08
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#707
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Still alive and fighting
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Re: Rising cost of living
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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Yeah think mines £23 or something, I begrudge them every penny to
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Ours is around £45 per quarter which is good compared to our energy bills.
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20-02-2023, 19:43
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cf.mega poster
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Re: Rising cost of living
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Originally Posted by Paul
Wow, how many swimming pools do you have.
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Taf's in Wales. Water is famously scarce there.
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20-02-2023, 20:30
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Re: Rising cost of living
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!
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20-02-2023, 21:05
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Re: Rising cost of living
Mine is £418.81 for 2023.
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20-02-2023, 21:08
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Trollsplatter
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Re: Rising cost of living
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)
Last edited by Chris; 20-02-2023 at 21:22.
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20-02-2023, 21:17
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Re: Rising cost of living
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Originally Posted by Paul
Mine is £418.81 for 2023.
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Looking at previous bills, its gone up by 10.8%, which is actually less than last year, when it went up by 11.1%.
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20-02-2023, 21:29
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Trollsplatter
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Re: Rising cost of living
Ours is up about 5% this year.
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21-02-2023, 13:48
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Re: Rising cost of living
Just got the service charge for the flat, £2909
More than double last years and two thirds more than 2020's
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21-02-2023, 20:25
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Re: Rising cost of living
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Just got the service charge for the flat, £2909
More than double last years and two thirds more than 2020's
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What do you get for that?
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21-02-2023, 20:30
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Re: Rising cost of living
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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
What do you get for that?
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Not a lot, cleaning, communal heating, minor repairs, buildings insurance, that kind of thing, nothing special, oh and ten quid ground rent
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21-02-2023, 23:00
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Re: Rising cost of living
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Not a lot, cleaning, communal heating, minor repairs, buildings insurance, that kind of thing, nothing special, oh and ten quid ground rent
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That seems a lot of money for pretty little in return. Have you and your neighbours thought about self managing?
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21-02-2023, 23:06
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Re: Rising cost of living
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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth
That seems a lot of money for pretty little in return. Have you and your neighbours thought about self managing?
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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
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22-02-2023, 08:20
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Re: Rising cost of living
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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
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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.
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22-02-2023, 12:02
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Re: Rising cost of living
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.
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