Anyone ever had a dodgy water meter?

[The_Arbiter]

Got a new water meter several months ago, never had one before this. Am a FTB and am renovating the house with just family support, so no builders. The meter is in the house, and we've checked all/changed some of the pipework months ago. There's no external taps on the building. And most of all, nobody lives at the property. There is a shared main, but this is way before the meter.

Had my bill through, basically i've used loads. The meter reckons i've used 6000 litres in 8 days alone. There's a slight dribble from the one old toilet that's connected, but i've never even heard the toilet fill so it's massively slow.

Anyone experienced such an issue?
Looking for some ammo hopefully as water/energy companies are always unhelpful.

Thanks

 

[The_Arbiter]

The water company should be able to come to your house, isolate the flow to your house and check if the meter is still running when isolated.

Likely hood is that you have a leak though. Have you lifted the toilet to check the level of the leak?

Sorry, i meant the toilet is leaking in the cistern and running into the bowl freely, rather than the pipe leaking. Unless you meant something else?

I'm going to turn off the mains at the stop tap and see what the meter does in the day when i'm there at the weekend, and also in the week when no one's there too.

It just doesn't make any sense to me as any significant leak in the property would've been evident i want to think. I picked up the property in November and it hadn't been lived in for at least a year prior to that. Currently there's no carpets, bare walls, electrics hanging out and some floor boards up. The only mains pipework is a short run to the upstairs bathroom (which we have the floorboards up to see it), with the newly made utility room still not properly plumbed in, and the kitchen is isolated as non existent still. Both kitchen and utility room are next door to the incoming mains which houses the boiler and water meter, so it's all compact. There's no hidden pipework to speak of as we changed around some walls in this area.

Thanks

 

[The_Arbiter]

This is a consistent flow it's just an internal overflow so this will be using a lot of water.

Turns out this was the case sadly. Float locking nut thing was loose. I just isolate the house when i'm not there, just in case. Teach me for being complacent

 

[The_Arbiter]

I got lucky with my house, they forgot to put a water meter in and all my water is free.

Sadly i chose to get one as it's just me, so will be cheaper. Except this time round it worked against me >.<