Owners or tenants of apartments in semi-detached or multi-family, as well as private houses are required to pay monthly utility bills according to receipts. At the same time, users should understand what specific calculations and items are included in the services, how they are calculated. This will allow you to protect yourself from illegal overpayments, to clarify controversial data.
Housing and communal services are the activities of services that guarantee comfortable living of the population in apartment and private houses, apartments, dorm rooms. Each payer should know what is included in utilities: water supply, sewage disposal, heating, gas and electricity supply. All information and requirements for the provision of LCD must be available to consumers, indicated in the sent out receipts.
What is included in utilities: a list of expenditure items
Utilities are compulsory expense items provided to all homeowners and tenants. Let's consider briefly what is related to public services, how and to whom they are provided.
Types of utilities:
- Cold water for drinking and household needs. Served for residents around the clock through a centralized or intra-house network. In the absence of a cold water supply system in a private house, the supply is made to the street pump.
- Hot water. Served to consumers around the clock, centrally. In some houses, the supply stops during the warmer months or for a certain period specified in the contract.
- Disposal of household and sewage wastewater. It is carried out year-round through specially laid engineering intra-building or centralized systems.
- Gas supply. Gas is supplied around the clock to houses, apartments through networks or is delivered by the gas service in cylinders.
- Heating. Centralized heat carriers supply heat energy to consumers in apartments to maintain a comfortable temperature in all rooms.
- Power supply. Electricity is supplied by wire around the clock to private houses and apartments in the required volume.
Knowing what is included in utility bills, it is easier to control cost items. If any Zhku does not turn out to be to the tenants, for example, there is no sewage system connected to the house, then they should not be taken into account when drawing up and sending out receipts.
What is included in housing services: a short list
Many tenants understand what utilities are, but they are often confused in the description of housing. If the list of utilities is clearly spelled out in receipts sent by mail or e-mail, then they are associated with general needs and expenses. Here is a short list that can be supplemented with other expense items.
- Lighting of entrances, basements, attic.
- Cleaning of entrances, adjoining territories.
- Waste transportation costs.
- Fire safety expenses.
- Improvement and gardening of the land plot adjacent to the house.
- Activities for the seasonal operation of the roof, entrance doors, etc.
Housing and communal services and general house expenses must be paid on a monthly basis according to receipts received by hand or by mail. You should not accumulate debts on payments for several months; it is better to regularly transfer the required amounts through an online portal or visit a post office, a nearby bank.
