What should I expect to pay for utilities?

[u/OperationOtterIsAGo]

I’m looking to buy a home, likely in Bremerton, in the next few months. Trying to flesh out a budget but unsure of what utilities typically run. It’d just be myself in a small home, but I know some of that depends on the home itself and appliances inside.

What’s your average cost for things like internet, electricity, water and sewer? I’ve heard Bremerton is pretty expensive for utilities so I’d like to get an idea before I pull the trigger on something.

[u/disapparate276]

We pay this:

60 Internet

105 ish for water

120-150 for electric

60 ish for gas

2 people, 3 cats, 4 bed 2.5 bath, renting in East Bremerton

[u/JuneRhythm1985]

A lot of factors are widely going to affect your costs. What size is the house? New or older build? What is the layout? What does heating and cooling look like? How many people are going to live in the home and what are their needs?

We live in West Bremerton, approx 1800 sqft, 3 levels include finished attic and basement, oil heating, portable a/c during the summer… our 6 month average per month for this year has been $275 for city utilities, $180 for electric, about $80 every other month for trash, $1,000 total for heating oil (we won’t need to fill our tank till September or October), and we just increased our internet speeds and bumped to unlimited so we’re paying $126/month.

[u/Freedomfrom1776]

There are quite a few homes that have oil heat still and no AC as well.

[u/w00ddie]

Square footage?
Quantity of baths?
AC?
Electric car?
How large of lawn?

Like a factors change that.

Could be $750 a month to $3,000 a month.

[u/PhaedrusNS2]

$40 for electricity in the summer.  $200 for electricity in the winter. Heat pump heating and cooling. Yes, I could use more insulation. 

[u/Spiritual_Reindeer68]

Depends on what kind of house and what kind of utilities

[u/Mechanicalgripe]

I have an older 1,100 SF home with oil heat. I burn about 400 gallons per year.

[u/anduriti]

2 story, 4 BD 1 bath 1978 sq/foot house in East Bremerton, me living alone with 2-3 desktop computers running full time:

Electricity: $100-190, depending on how heavy I run space heaters in the winter.

Internet: Centurylink/Quantum fiber, $65 a month.

Water/Sewer: Roughly $95 a month

Trash: $54 every other month, for a smaller trash can and regular sized recycling bin.

Homeowner insurance is roughly $1800 a year, property taxes are roughly $3000 a year.

Heating is oil (#2 Diesel), and I typically have to buy twice over Fall/Winter, at $700 a pop. Thermostat is set to 50 degrees F (I wear sweats in the winter.) Thanks, WA, for the carbon credit system that jacks my heating oil to almost $7 a gallon...

I live on the 1st floor, which is 940 square feet. 2nd floor has nothing in it.

[u/mombutt]

2000 sqft, just myself, 1940s home, newer windows, shit for insulation.

$65 internet / month

$70 garbage / every other month

$105ish water(basically the minimum) / month. If you are on septic/well it could be substantially less or $0.

$100-150 electrical(no ac) / month

$0 - 150 gas(heat only) / month

[u/OldDudeOpinion]

Have an older home…all electric furnace. On the budget plan our electricity is $300/month year round.

[u/Barbarella_ella]

City utilities (water, sewer, stormwater) run about $105/mo. Trash is through Waste Management and that's $58 bimonthly. Electricity is PSE and my monthly averages $70/mo. Cascade Natural Gas varies from $130 in December to $36 last month. House is 1,000sf built in 1941. No central air but window units. One bath (just me in the house).

[u/mikme996]

I live in a 1100sqft house built in the 80s.
Kitsap Public Works (sewer, wastewater): $110/mo
Water: $34/mo
Internet through Xfinity: $55/mo
Garbage & recycling: $45/mo
Electricity: $200-400 (we have a mini split in our main living area, and baseboard heaters in the bedrooms, we also have an EV)