Students: bills inclusive in rent, or not?

[meglamaniac]

Personally, I think this is a good thing.
There are 8 of us living in the Loughborough mansion, and in my room alone these things are left on 24 hours a day, whethere I'm in or out:
* A drinks fridge (no, seriously)
* PC
* 2 monitors belonging to PC (though they turn off after 15 mins)
* 140w surround sound system
* VCR
* Freeview decoder (cos I keep forgetting to turn it off)
* The bedside light (ditto)
* Various low-drain misc things such as the printer, nokia phone charger, etc

Other people's rooms aren't quite so bad, but also around the house is the equipment needed to run a 100Mbit network to all bedrooms plus various "guest" ports around the house for when people want to come over and plug their laptops in. This is basicly 2 eight port switches, a dedicated network server, and the cable modem.

On top of this, we have dual timed and thermostatically controlled central heating - this means we set the timer to 24/7 and then set the thermostat to knock the boiler out when the average temp in the house is a comfy 18C. Hot water is heated on the fly (you turn the tap on, the boiler goes click click click woomph, and hot water comes through a couple of seconds later) so at least that's vaugely environmentally friendly.

In one sense, this is giving us all some very bad habits we'll no doubt regret later in life.
However, I dread to think what all this lot would cost outside of the rent. Obviously the rent would be much reduced, but reduced enough to cover a flatrate water bill, and our rather expansive electricity and gas bills?

How good/bad is your house?

[W]

We just got an electricity bill that divided by 3 equals 400kr each. That's for 3 months. I'm not complaining. We also forked over 500kr each for wood, to burn in the fireplace. Should last us all winter, and save alot of money on heating.

Edit for those too lazy to XE.com:
1,000.00 NOK
Norway Kroner
=
139.837 USD
United States Dollars

1,000.00 NOK
Norway Kroner
=
83.5593 GBP
United Kingdom Pounds

[Scoot951]

It's definitly a savings for us, although I cba breaking down the costs atm.

[Deffeh]

In halls its inclusive anyway, which is pretty useful, considering the techno paradise ive turned my 25 cubic metres into.

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by Deffeh

In halls its inclusive anyway, which is pretty useful, considering the techno paradise ive turned my 25 cubic metres into.

Techno sucks dude.

[Deffeh]

techno does suck, but technology doesnt. where would i be without my computer, my lamp, my phone charger, my speakers, my fridge, my shaver, etc?

[MrL_JaKiri]

I have a computer attached to the big tv for filmage.

And this one's attached to the stereo.

[Dante Hicks]

We never got round to paying the electricity in our old place (only estimated bills). At last count, the bill was several thousand units over the estimate.

[Radical Edward]

comedy gold there dante... so who coughed up all that cash in the end?


oh, kudos to all for contributing to the heat death of the universe

[Dante Hicks]

Originally Posted by Radical Edward

comedy gold there dante... so who coughed up all that cash in the end?

No-one yet. Although it's my name still, so eventually it'll catch up with me I suppose.

p.s. If SbOlly or T&F read this - our old flat has been re-let now I think.

[roadrunner_0]

Originally Posted by MrL_JaKiri

I have a computer attached to the big tv for filmage.

And this one's attached to the stereo.

since when did you have a stereo???


oh, and everywhere i lived my bills have been outside the rent, and you students dont know how lucky you are not to have to pay council tax fs

[MrL_JaKiri]

Originally Posted by roadrunner_0

since when did you have a stereo???

The towery thing, it's black and hid beneath the table with the monitor and the phone on it.