How much is your water bill?

[Nasher]

It's getting more expensive to treat it (mostly the wastewater) to tighter and tighter standards, that require more expensive equipment, more chemicals and more energy

Like they should have been doing and we're paid for doing for the past 30 years. Not just illegally dumping it in rivers and giving all the profit to the shareholders.

What should be happening is we all get a big discount for them basically miss-selling services and commuting fraud. They were taking money for sewage treatment and not doing it.

 

[robj20]

Had a new meter fitted by Affinity (they did everyone's in the area) back in July/ August. For the last 4 years or so my bill has consistently been approximately £40-£50/m based on very consistent usage of about 90-96K litres. Now this new meter is installed my Bill has gone from £50 to £98 and apparently my usage is 128K litres... Part of this 100% increase is due to the unit rate charge going up by 20% in a year and the fixed rate has also gone up massively but there is no explanation as to my usage magically going up by 30-40% without anything changing in my house. Same thing has happened to loads of my neighbours.

Should have stayed off meter.

 

[m4rmite]

Had a new meter fitted by Affinity (they did everyone's in the area) back in July/ August. For the last 4 years or so my bill has consistently been approximately £40-£50/m based on very consistent usage of about 90-96K litres. Now this new meter is installed my Bill has gone from £50 to £98 and apparently my usage is 128K litres... Part of this 100% increase is due to the unit rate charge going up by 20% in a year and the fixed rate has also gone up massively but there is no explanation as to my usage magically going up by 30-40% without anything changing in my house. Same thing has happened to loads of my neighbours.

Don't you have up to 2 years to switch back to no meter?

 

[Kenai]

Like they should have been doing and we're paid for doing for the past 30 years.

No, not really

 

[tamzzy]

Should have stayed off meter.

Don't you have up to 2 years to switch back to no meter?

it sounds like lima already had a meter and the old meter was under-reading
(or maybe the new meter is over-reading...or a new leak since the new meter was installed)

For the last 4 years or so my bill has consistently been approximately £40-£50/m based on very consistent usage of about 90-96K litres. Now this new meter is installed my Bill has gone from £50 to £98 and apparently my usage is 128K litres...

 

[Lima]

Yea tammzy is correct. I already had a meter, some basic thing they would send a bloke round to read every 6 months or so. They replaced everyone’s to smart meters off their own back.

 

[moogle]

Enjoy...
Water bills will rise by an average of 5.4% or £33 a year in England and Wales from April, the water industry body has confirmed.

The rise is two percentage points above December's official inflation figure.

Prices vary across the country depending on a number of factors, however, so billpayers in some areas will see even bigger increases.

The biggest percentage increase is for Affinity Water customers in the Midlands, with bills rising by more than double the average at 13% or £31.

In cash terms, United Utilities customers will be worst off, with annual bills rising by £57 (9%) to an average of £660.

At the other end of the scale, Thames Water customers will pay just £3 (0.4%) more.

See much water company is hiking bills...

Water and wastewater companies
Average annual household bill
Change in £
Change in %
Thames Water
£658
£3
0.4%

Thames Water already put ours up in April by 40%. So whilst it might look like a small increase it's gone up massively already.

 

[Hagar]

Ours is now £307 for the previous six months and we are a lowish user.

United Utilities

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Down to £40 a month. Went up to £60 in the last cycle due to having to water the garden all summer. Use hardly any in the winter, will probably be down to £30 next time.

 

[djay]

Mine is £51 a month, when I moved into the house 2 years ago it was £25.

 

[the shadow]

About £100 quid to pay off next years bill.

 

[Shoza]

United Utilities bill now in for the new year. Up another 14% to £99.86 a month on rates..

 

[Diddums]

Got a letter this morning. Going from £161 a month, to £71 a month. £90 a month less

 

[andy_mk3]

ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ONE POUNDS A MONTH you were paying for water?

Were you bottling and selling it?

 

[MrRockliffe]

I’m about £40-£50 a month here.

Gf doesn’t really wash the smelly cow.


(Jk she does at the gym, hopefully)

 

[Diddums]

Were you bottling and selling it?

Underground car wash innit.

I reckon they ballsed up at some point and wouldn't admit it, which is why when I challenged them on their hilarious costs they were vague AF and rivalled Pam Bondi when I asked them questions. In the end I just gave up as it was like banging my head against a wall.

I also found that one of our toilets was letting by. It was the tiniest little stream, invisible to the eye and could've been leaking for years, 24/7, 365. Even the tiniest trickle like that adds up to a ton of water.

Oh and we're not exactly frugal with water either.

 

[B&W]

£110 a month...

 

[tom_e]

Wife had an email the other day ours has doubled from £51 to £100, not entirely sure why. I should probably get the login details for ST website and have a look.

 

[bimbleuk]

My usage is so low that the fixed costs are significant. 2 years prior I was at £10 per month now £21. Usage is the same. I paid £10-15 more this period because there were a few more days but the usage actually dropped slightly!

 

[TrojanWhore]