It is impossible to live normally without heat, light and electricity. For all this you have to pay. Housing and utilities rates please only those who receive a fee for services, and the consumer remains only to sigh and pay for receipts.

What are utility payments out of

Fee for the maintenance and maintenance of housing stock, overhaul, garbage collection, elevator, intercom - the price is fixed, and you can not affect these numbers.

If you have centralized heating - you will also have to pay completely. With autonomous heating, payment is made according to the indications of the gas meter.

Is it possible to pay less for housing and utilities services? Savings are possible due to the services that are paid on the testimony of accounts. Installing meters on hot and cold water, gas, electricity will allow you to pay much less than when paying for utility regulations from the calculation for each family member.

Some refuse to pay for the intercom. In principle, you are not obliged to pay for it. If you feel in the law on payment of the DomoFonov, you can achieve truth and do not pay for the intercom to all the entrance. Maintenance of intercoms should be engaged in housing and communal services - they constantly increase the board for the content and maintenance of the housing stock, but very often tenants do not know what exactly this fee is taken.

Non-payment for the intercom in a separate apartment, even if you do not connect the DomoFon tube, is not quite honest in relation to the neighbors. The entrance is closed from extraneous visitors, and you use it, while your guests are worried about the neighbors with requests to open the door.

Saving electricity

In the event of a power meter breakdown, try to replace it as quickly as possible. In the absence of a meter, payment is made by set standards. Tariffs housing and communal services are unreasonably high, electricity pay for the meter is cheaper.

Multi-tariff electricity meters

In addition to ordinary meters, there are two-time and three-tariff electricity meters. Such meters consider electricity at different times of the day. Electricity at night is cheaper.

Before installing such a meter, calculate how profitable you are. When using multitariff counters, a separate standard is installed for every time of day. Peak time (from 07:00 to 10:00 and from 17:00 to 21:00) - the most expensive, half-one (from 10:00 to 17:00 and from 21:00 to 23:00) cheaper, and the lowest Price for the night (from 23:00 to 07:00).

Note that during the daytime you will pay more than when paying at the usual rate. Each city has their own standards.

Using the example of payment of the two-timing counter in different cities, you can make sure that it is not profitable for everyone. Tariffs are given for apartments with gas stoves.

For residents of Moscow and the Moscow region, the installation of a multi-tariff counter can be beneficial. The usual tariff is 4.5 p, payment at two rates - in the daytime 4, 53 p, in the night 1, 16 r.

In Kaluga, the difference is a round-the-clock tariff 3.5 p, on the two tariffs you pay at daytime 3.91 p, in the night 2, 72. That is, when paying for two rates you pay for daytime more expensive by 0.4 rubles than when The usual tariff. The main consumption of electricity is from 7 am to 11 pm. If you are not an amateur to wash and iron underwear at night - no economy will work. In addition, not every neighbor she likes to sleep under the noise of the working washing machine - no matter how silently she did not work - the vibration is inevitable, the sounds are particularly well audible in the night silence.

First, examine the tariffs installed in your area, take the analysis for what time of day you have the greatest consumption of electricity. Calculate how much you will be replaced by the meter and when it will pay off. It may happen in such a way that by the time the installation of the counter will pay, rates will change to the side disadvantage.

It is easier to think about how to reduce electricity consumption

How to find out how much electricity consume household appliances?

With the help of a domestic wattmeter, you can measure how much energy consumes the electrical appliance. Old refrigerator or freezer, which got to you from your grandmother and fully copble with the cooling function of the products, can consume electricity more than all household appliances combined.

Household wattmeter costs about a thousand rubles. Even the sake of interest can be checked how much electricity consumes your household appliances in working mode and in standby mode.

The wattmeter is included in the socket and the household appliance is connected through it. The display shows the testimony of energy consumed. The roller is somewhat tightened, but the principle of operation of the device is shown.

Useful devices and tips

• When buying household appliances, pay attention to the electricity consumption class. The energy efficiency class is indicated by Latin letters. Devices with class A marking consume less energy than Class G instruments. According to the cost of a class refrigerator, it will be more expensive to you, but the annual consumption of electricity in such a refrigerator is twice as lower (320 kWh) than class G (720 kWh) . If you consider that the refrigerator you buy for a long time - savings are obvious.
• If possible, do not leave the instruments connected to the power grid. Many manufacturers began to indicate energy consumption in sleep mode. TV, which is in sleep mode consumes from 0.5 to 1- watt per hour. Printers, electric stoves with control panel, chargers left in the outlet - useless electricity consumption.
• Replace incandescent lamps to energy saving. LED backlight is able to highly illuminate the working area in the kitchen, while consuming little energy. Energy-saving lamps are manufactured with warm light, if you do not taste cold.
• Install the lights. The light regulator performs the role of the switch and allows you to reduce the lighting intensity as necessary.
• In the corridor, set the switches with the motion sensor. Very convenient - and the switch is not needed once again, and the light is turned off when no one is in the room.
• When repairing, choose the wallpaper of light tones - there is less lighting for such rooms.
• Warm windows and doors so as not to use heating electrical appliances during the cold season.
• Do not turn on the washing machine for maximum heating - for high-quality washing, there is a temperature of 40-50º.
• When using electrical stoves, use the heating discs in the size of the bottom of the dishes. Use cooking cooks. Electric kettle and microwave consume electricity less than an electric stove. Skip in the kettle increases the water heating time.

Water saving

Save the water is easier than electricity, because we see it. It is clear that from the crane, open at full capacity, leaking water more than when it is poured with a thin ridge. You can find advisers who recommend using the shower, and not take a bath, and even rinsed with cool water. Saving is good, but first of all you should feel comfortable. And do not change their habits for saving a couple of cubic meters of water.

Several simple tips will help you reduce water consumption.

• Watch out for the state of plumbing. Do not allow water leaks from a toilet bowl or cranes, from which water drips.
• The lever faucet for water allows you to adjust the pressure and water temperature faster.
• Install the drain toilet tank with two buttons.
• Use water-saving taps.
• Water consumption during washing machine machine is significantly lower than when washing a semi-automatic and handwriting of linen.
• The use of a dishwasher requires electricity consumption, but water will need less than when washing each plate separately.
• Setting the touch mixer. A motion sensor is built into the touch mixer - the crane opens when you bring hands to it. Convenient for washbasins. Allows you to save water when adjusting the temperature.

How to save on heating

Payment of heating in different regions is different. There are two system of payment for centralized heat supply - or you pay for heating from October to April inclusive, or this fee will be extruded evenly for the entire year.

With centralized heating on radiators, heat meters can be installed. It is not very profitable for two reasons:

• You will have to lead a war with housing and public utilities to prove their right to install such counters and payment for heating in the counters.
• Installing thermal counters will require tangible costs.

For centralized heating, everyone will have to pay for receipts. But if the temperature of the radiators in the apartment is too low, and you have to use electrical heaters to maintain heat in the apartment - contact the Housing and Hospital complaints and higher authorities, create commissions.

In apartment buildings with centralized heating, the autonomous heating system is allowed. To obtain such a permit, you must collect a list of documents. If in your apartment according to the law it is possible to install a gas boiler for heating an apartment and feed hot water - to calculate the coming costs.

The transition to autonomous heating in an apartment with centralized heat powder will cost you about 100 thousand rubles. It is possible that these costs will not pay off soon, but you will have the right temperature in your apartment, you will not leave in September, and you will not get the street in April, as it often happens. Pay for such a gas meter heating.

Saving natural gas

About saving gas is more likely to be the question when the house or apartment has autonomous heating from the gas boiler. To save gas, the boilers include the optimal mode with a temperature sensor. The boiler automatically turns on and turns off, depending on the specified temperature.

About benefits and recalculation for utilities

You can receive recalculation for utilities services if there were no homes at least five days if the counters have not been installed. To do this, you need to submit documents confirming your absence. It may be a certificate from a hospital or a sanatorium where you were on treatment, travel documents, a travel certificate.

The recalculation is not more than half a year of your absence.

Communal benefits are provided by the families of military personnel, large families, disabled.

In rural areas, teachers and health workers have benefits.

Subsidies are provided if the payment for services leaves 10 to 20% of the family's income - depending on the region.

If you have the right to preferential payment of utilities, or receiving subsidies - do not register the time to provide relevant documents.

Tip - Do not feel about saving with fanaticism. The world in the family is more expensive than a couple of hundred rubles that you will save on the rent.