Our London Apartment Tour | Monthly rent and other expenses - YouTube

Hello Hi Guys Welcome Back To My Channel More In today's video I will give you our house tour

which is a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom apartment We moved here last year

Before this we were living in a one bedroom apartment. Many of you must have watched that video

If you must havent seen that video . Click in the I button on the corner.

in this video I will show you the whole apartment

What is the rate of this apartment and How much does this cost other utilities expenses

What is the rate of this apartment and How much does this cost other utilities expenses

So lets Go.

Welcome to our apartment. Please come in.

So as you enter you can see storage cupboard on the left.

and here all that same vacuum cleaner and jackets and some of our bags and other stuff

coat hanger and its main purpose is storage of items that are not used reguarly. Iron table.

So let's go to the side where we have boiler and washing machine The boiler is used for central heating and hot water and

There is a board to set up boiler which I will show you later in the video.

At the bottom is automatic washing machine.

It has different dry cycles. you can just wash and air dry or you want the clothes to be completely dried all different function are there.

let's move down to the right side Here is the common bathroom on the right side

In this bathroom we have a bathtub

here is our laundry bag and there are some utilities and bathroom essentials.

And this is the heated towel rail on which you can hang your towels to dry.

So this was the bathroom. And behind me you can see the bicycle. Which Nittin got during the lockdown.

he was very fond of cycling .

Although its not used heavily. he use this cycle to get some groceries from nearby stores during covid times.

So let me now show you my second bedroom. Look at this full length window from where we get good sunlight during the day.

Here is wardrobe and we put all our extra stuff in these wardrobes.

we also have a small temple in this bedroom.

And this is the floor fan that we use during hot summer days as there are no ceiling fans in UK.

which I showed in culture shock video. I will tag the link here and description.

No ceiling fans thats why we have to use floor fans or table top fans.

Usually weather is pleasant in summers so you don't need to use it a-lot.

This was our small bedroom now lets go to living room.

Welcome to this area of the house. can you come a bit forword.

This is our new sofa.We had another sofa which we flattened by sitting on it during lockdown. And that was useless afterwards.

So we requested our Landlord to change it to which he kindly agreed.

Then comes this desk. which is our office. We set it up during lockdown.

And this wasn't used earlier. And we got this chair during that time. Nittin Still uses this set up .

This desk was provided by landlord and rest of things screen, chair, keyboard is all ours.

This is our tv which is also provided by landlord as a part of furnished apartment.

Lets go to other side which is a kitchen which is one of the most important areas in a house

This dining table is 6 seater but we use the two chairs in different rooms

We are anyway just two people so 2 chairs are enough for daily purpose. We can put all chairs if there is a gathering in the house

Let me show you the kitchen in detail

This is the fridge, for the people who have not seen this in my previous house tours

i want to show that the top one is fridge and the bottom one is freezer

As you can see the fridge is full because we recently ordered from a big UK superstore called ASDA

This is the freezer .. basically i wanted to show you guys the size of the fridge and freezer which is pretty much standard in apartments

The rest is mostly the cabinets but I will show you the main available appliances in this kitchen

This is the chimney and its mostly present in all the apartments

If you pull the hood , it gets switched on and if you push it down it gets switched off.

This is the ceramic hob which works via a red heated filament

If I show you by turning it on then you can see it.

Hopefully you can see it now, this is the red part which is the heating element

This is how this cooking top works.

There is a variety of hobs available here like electric induction and gas which is found in India

Gas hob is mostly present in older apartments

In new apartments, you will find mostly electric or ceramic hobs

This is the oven used for baking different items.

Here people mostly bake rather than frying things

we have recently tried things like Fries, Samosa etc.

There are many things which come frozen ready to be baked.

Most of the items come with proper instructions which you can follow and cook in the oven

Then we will switch to microwave, this is pretty common and I dont think i need to explain it much

We have this food processor which is multifunctional. We have to do everything here end to end so this is very useful.

we can make dough and can be used for making purees/ grating etc.

Do whatever you want to do with different extensions and jars available with this

This reminds me of showing you another important thing.

which is pressure cooker. It can be bought in UK but is very difficult to find

plus can be very expensive too. So you can get it from India if you want.

It is very easy to use and helpful here.

Ok next I will show you the dishwasher, If you are living out of India, this is a necessity.

It's a bit loaded and somewhat messy in here hope you don't mind.

This is the standard size in here. This is the place where you put the dishwasher tablet

You can get these tablets easily from a grocery store

you can then switch it on using this button

and press this button to wash it with maximum load.

Usually we use this mode only

As you know Indian cooking is a bit oily and utensils are greasy, this mode is required to completely clean the dishes.

If you dont use this mode, might happen that it does not get clean properly

Apart from dishwasher tablets, dishwasher salt is required

once in a while. It has to be put inside at a certain frequency.

You will observe that after sometime, dishes aren't getting cleaned

Btw Kiaan is up.

As I promised outside that I will show you how to set up boiler.

This is the device which is present in our living room behind the door.

I'll show you how this can be switched on

This is the icon for tap and the other one is for radiator

Now let's press this to turn it on . there are different modes.

This is different setting to make it work on a frequency or instantly start heating

This is how we can set up hot water

or central heating setting Let me turn it off now.

Now it is off Now lets go to our master bedroom

One more thing which I forgot to show you. This is a phone which is connected to the building entrance

If someone comes outside our apartment building, he can dial us here

We can pick up the call, and open the door for him/her

This is the key which we can press to open it

I have pressed it just to show you the camera

If someone comes, you can see that person on this screen

This is the video in which the person can be seen

If you want to talk then you can talk or you can straight away open the door

like you can see the kids playing around

Now let's go to our master bedroom. Usually there are carpets in the room and the rest of the apartment is wooden.

As soon as I enter the bedroom, you can see the huge mirrors which are the wardrobes

Obviously we put clothes and other items in here

We have converted this dressing table to changing table

Used half of the table to put changing mat

We have kept all the things that are needed to change kiaan's diaper in the drawers

It becomes quite easy to do this here

Because of space constraint, we have customised and used the dressing table

This was the changing mat, next is the cot which we got from IKEA

Cot is very important because you should not co-sleep with the babies, there are strict sleeping guidelines here for the babies

This is our king size bed

and you can see the big beautiful window from which we take plenty of sunshine

When the weather is good, we open the window to let the fresh air in

Feels really nice and the temperature of the room gets regulated

Talking of temperature, I will show you a small device installed here.

This tells you the humidity which is 49% and the temperature which is 24.7 degrees celsius

In London, the weather keeps changing rapidly and is quite unpredictable.

And outside temperature is quite different from the inside

because windows and balcony doors are insulated

Because of that we have put this device as sometimes we don't feel much cold as we are used to of it

but for babies, it might be colder that we think

If we observe that the room temperature is down we can cover the baby or dress accordingly.

You can see the half side is covered with curtains

Because we cannot fit all the stuff in store we have put some here

and we don't want to show you guys whats behind this.

These are the lights which are very beautiful

When we came to view this apartment, we were instantly attracted to them

Next you might be thinking there was a door in the bedroom

This is actually the en-suite bathroom

There is a partition and the shower. There is no bath tub here

People who cannot use bath tub or dont want to , they can easily take a shower in here

This is our balcony and attached to the living room As you can see the size is pretty good.

can you see the DLR (train) ? the station is actually walkable distance from here

This was our home tour, now lets talk about rent

The rent of this apartment is 1450 gbp per month which was a bit discounted as we moved here during lockdown

on the website it was listed 1550 gbp per month but somehow we managed to get it cheaper due to covid

The rental prices have gone a bit down. Apart from rent, what all expenses are here let me tell you

first of all there is a council tax which is 1400 gbp per year

That electricity cost approx 40 gbp per month

Water and internet both cost 20 gbp per month each ( total 40)

These are the approx average costs, it can be a bit lesser or higher than this.. depends on your provider

If you have any other questions let me know in the comments section I will try to respond

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see you in our next video.. until then bye