Household bills

Sunnyspain wrote on Thu Dec 15, 2022 7:27am:

Hi I live in a 2 bedroom house. Im on the same rate 24/7 with iberdrola. I do washing no more than twice a week. I bought a new eco washing machine. We have a log burner and gas for water. I rarely use the oven and hob and use air fryer alot. I have solar lights outside. We have an electric blank...

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...et which is a game changer and costs cents to run. I switched off my 2nd freezer and hot tub in October and my November bill was €48. October bill was 60 odd. We don't have the gas levy charge added to our bill. I budgeted for 100 a month and my highest this year has been 88 when the builders were in for 2 weeks using electric power tools.

We havent put the air con on this year and used fans as they are cheaper to run. Make sure lights are led.

My bimonthly water bills are always about 48. Gas bottle for hot water lasts a good 4 months and we paid 18 to re fill last one.

We pay 30 a month for cable Internet.

Hope that helps.

Stem wrote on Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:27am:

Thank you so much for your detailed reply , this has helped me with my future plans .

Sunnyspain wrote on Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:36am:

You are welcome. Good luck. 

Our biggest outlay is private healthcare. 

Stem wrote on Thu Dec 15, 2022 8:49am:

Yes health care is my next project , did not realised how much per month this was going to be , but I have read after your first year of living in Spain and becoming a resident you are allowed to join the Spanish national health .

Sunnyspain wrote on Thu Dec 15, 2022 9:04am:

We are not on state pension so do not get state healthcare.

We could have joined after our 1st year at a monthly cost of €60 a month. Between ages of 65 to 67 it increases to €157 each a month! 

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We decided to stick with Asssa who have been great. My husband has had various doctor appointments scans contrasts etc this year. We can normally get a doctors appointment within days and hospital appointments within a week. It costs us about €15 each extra a month and includes travel insurance. 

Despite lots of hospital appointments this year our renewal for next month has increased by just 40 each annually. 

I assume you know about the non lucrative visa to live here?

If you are drawing state pension I have read you can use the S1 so you don't need an annual policy to apply.