Water useage comparison

[cyber69]

Just had a new bill from Severn Trent and my DD has increased again to £37. We are in a average 3 bed home and take showers and use washing machine most days once a day so standard useage. How does this compare with you all?

Here's my useage for the past 4 years and I can see it goes down considerably between Nov16 and May18 and then shoots straight back up to where it was before Nov16. The only thing I can think of is the wife bought one of these blow up hot tubs last year and we filled it twice. That still doesn't explain the useage drop that started in Nov16 though.

 

[cyber69]

Only thing I can think of is we changed the washing machine in May15 to an A++ one which would use a lot less water. I cannot think of anything that can account for the useage drop unless the water meter was running slow? When the payment went down to £8.71 a month I was thinking there must be something wrong.

 

[cyber69]

^ Hmmm, doesn't seem like anything is wrong then meaning we must have used considerably less water between Nov16 and May18, a total of 64m3 !

 

[cyber69]

Somewhere between a quarter and a third of the average households water use is toilet flushing. Anyone left the household during the lower usage period? Uni student? Booted the mother in law out and she's now returned?

The hot tub certainly won't help, jet wash? (I'm not suggesting you jet wash your wife, more do you use one a lot for cleaning paths/patios/cars) do you own a teenager who daydreams for an hour in the shower?

I got my own car in March 2018 and jet wash it occasionally about once a month. Jet wash the patio just once a year so nothing out of the ordinary.

Seems like the water useage has gone back to where it once was (and the cost) so just cannot explain the periods where it went down to just 13m3. I could phone up Severn Trent and query it but I don’t know what that would achieve.