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paradisiac

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ok, so I was being charged £72 a month for water. I live on my own and am at work for 8 hours 5 days a week, so thought this was a tad steep. so I have had a water meter fitted. it was fitted last Thurs, I checked it this morning, so that's 8 and a bit days, and its on 000038 (the 38 is in the red numbers), which equates to from what I can work out from the limited info I can find 0.38 units. its £1.96 a unit (I think) so that's £0.74 a week on water. surely this cannot be correct?
 
paradisiac said:
ok, so I was being charged £72 a month for water. I live on my own and am at work for 8 hours 5 days a week, so thought this was a tad steep. so I have had a water meter fitted. it was fitted last Thurs, I checked it this morning, so that's 8 and a bit days, and its on 000038 (the 38 is in the red numbers), which equates to from what I can work out from the limited info I can find 0.38 units. its £1.96 a unit (I think) so that's £0.74 a week on water. surely this cannot be correct?
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Yes it's correct and you was getting massively ripped off before.
 
£72 a month for a single person is liquid rape

I used to read water meters on the island - about 100 or so every 3 months. Prices were set against available mainland rates.

The lowest user used about 9-10 units a quarter. That's about 3 a month. So your figure, 0.38 for a week, does seem a bit wrong. Average for a single person (in my experience) was 18-25 units a quarter
 
If your single, then a water meter can be beneficial, as I found out in my last place.
Wouldn't even consider a water meter if I had a family to support.

Remember water board charges standing charge, plus Unit Volume Charge (per cubic metre) so 1 cubic metre =1000 litres (220gallons), I was surprise how long it took me to use a unit.
 
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that good to hear, was a bit worried I was either miss reading it or something was up. I don't have a washing machine, so I suppose that saves a bit of water, and I now turn the shower off whilst washing as my electric was astronomical too.
 
I live in a shared house of 5 professionals and our last meter reading was £322 for 6 months, so £10.70 a month each. And that's five adults showering once or twice a day, dishwasher every night and 1 or 2 loads of laundry every day plus the usual.
 
Remember that there are usually charges for water supplied (plus a standing charge), sewerage (plus a standing charge) and surface water drainage (where this goes into the water company's drains).

It should still work out at a lot less than £72/month though.
 
Surveyor said:
Remember that there are usually charges for water supplied (plus a standing charge), sewerage (plus a standing charge) and surface water drainage (where this goes into the water company's drains).

It should still work out at a lot less than £72/month though.
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yeh, its really hard finding out what these charges are likely to be as I cant figure out what they mean.
 
I'm on my own and have an unmetered supply, however, it's a 3 bedroom house and if I sell it to a family at some point, I can imagine that not having a water meter could be beneficial and even a selling point...
 
mrbell1984 said:
I think if you get a water meter fitted and you don't save the companies remove it for free too. It really is good to get one fitted to test see how much you are using then remove it if you don't save. A lot of money can be saved.
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I was of the understanding that once you had a meter, you couldn't have it removed?
 
my property had a water meter fitted previously, they just changed it to an unmetered bill. then when I moved in a asked for a meter they came and swapped the old one for a new one free. I don't think they remove it, I think they just change your billing.
 
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