Bills

tufterween

Hi guys,

I'm moving into a place next month with my fiancé and was wondering how much to plan paying for bills like ESB, heating, waste charges... Could anyone let me know what their charges for the month are for two people in relation to bills please?

Thanks guys

shoppergal

tufterween
Obviously it'll depend on a number of factors like the size of the house, how many hours per day you're home etc but to give you an idea of the bills me and my husband pay for a 3 bed semi, both out all day.

gas: average of €50 a month. in summer it's a bit less, in winter a bit more but we budget this amount and it evens out. This is for central gas heating.

electricity: as above €50 a month, our cooking is electricity.

waste: €23 a month but I think this can vary alot depending on part of the country

tv: sky €32 a month(basic package without sports & movies)
tv license: works out about €13 a month I think

house insurance: €34 a month

I think that's the main household ones but if you think of any others let me know.

tufterween

Okay thanks very much Shoppergal... gives us something to go by anyway

finnteme

tufterween wrote: »

Hi guys,

I'm moving into a place next month with my fiancé and was wondering how much to plan paying for bills like ESB, heating, waste charges... Could anyone let me know what their charges for the month are for two people in relation to bills please?

Thanks guys

Hi, we are 2 persons living in 2 bedroom house in D1.
Our bills are the following:

ESB 50 eur month (wintertime 100 eur due to electrical heating, we have 2 separate meters, one for day electricity and one for night electricity)

Home insurance 35 eur month

UPC digital value + package with multiroom 33 eur per month

Internet and phone, 24 mbs line from Magnet, 55 eur per month

Bin tags 14 eur per month


thats pretty much it..

tufterween

Ok great... We will probably be moving to the Dublin 1 area so that's a great help.

Much less than I thought it would be!

Thanks

finnteme

tufterween wrote: »

Ok great... We will probably be moving to the Dublin 1 area so that's a great help.

Much less than I thought it would be!

Thanks

It all depends on your preferences, how warm you want the house to be, isolation etc..

The "night" electricity is a almost a must, if you have electric heating.
Its basicly 1/2 of the normal price between 18-06.

tufterween

Ok that's great cus we probably won't be in the place until about 18.00 and will be leaving at about 7 or 8 am

We can manage without the heating on all the time... we have blankets and hot water bottles and stuff so that should be alright. Would we be better off getting electric heating or gas heating?

yogy

finnteme wrote: »

The "night" electricity is a almost a must, if you have electric heating.
Its basicly 1/2 of the normal price between 18-06.

The "night" rate is between 11pm and 8am, not 6pm and 6am.

beeno67

finnteme wrote: »

UPC digital value + package with multiroom 33 eur per month

Internet and phone, 24 mbs line from Magnet, 55 eur per month

Off the point a bit, but why don't you get your phone & broadband from UPC as well? Would save about €15 a month and give you faster 30mbs broadband.

tufterween

We won't be needing a phone so we were going to get internet from 3G

finnteme

beeno67 wrote: »

Off the point a bit, but why don't you get your phone & broadband from UPC as well? Would save about €15 a month and give you faster 30mbs broadband.

Yes, that was the idea, but upc can delivery only tv to us, no internet+phone

finnteme

yogy wrote: »

The "night" rate is between 11pm and 8am, not 6pm and 6am.

sorry, my mistake thats correct