Piles of dirty dishes. Food with your name on it, half-eaten. Music blasted aloud at 3am while you’re trying to sleep.

We’ve all had bad housemates – and Millie Thomas, 25, knows the feeling all too well.

Her flatmate’s biggest offence? The need to crank the thermostat down to 0°C, even during winter.

The veterinary nurse is among the nine in 10 young flat-sharers who have lived with a ‘housemate horror’, according to a new survey by Barclays. The findings released today show that nine in 10 Millennial and Gen Z renters have clashed over shared-space etiquette.

Three in 10 of the 2,000 surveyed report issues with roommates playing music out loud and leaving towers of dirty dishes in the sink.

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Millie lived for a year with four others in a house

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