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Water bills

Archives for July 2009

Huge bill for old property
Just wondering if anyone has ever been billed for a property they left over 2 1/2 years ago. I received a bill this morning for £1,478.23 for my old house. I was having direct payments made and the letter stated that they had now stopped. I move Christmas 2006 and notified all respective energy companies etc. Now they must…
3 year old bill from shared student house
Hi all, I lived in a student house 3 years ago and we never received a water bill while we were there. I've finished University and have just received a bill (to my parents address, I no longer live there) for the water in that house. My problem is that the landlord has given the water company mine and all of the…
Odd water bill situation
Hi All, I wondered if you might be able to give me some advice about my situation. I received a backdated water bill yesterday for approx £500. This bill relates to a property I previously owned but left some time ago. The bill essentially covers the whole of 2007. I was receiving bills from the water company during 2007…
Read the leaflets,you can save double your money!
I contacted anglian water after reading a leaflet they sent with my latest bill and as I have recently become unemployed, I decided to check out if and how to reduce my bill. I read under the ' extra help for vulnerable customers' section if annual consumption is under 75 cubic meters I could change to a tariff called…
Yorkshire water email address?
Hi all, I've just had a water meter fitted, 22 hours after requesting one. I'm absolutely delighted at this service and want to email them to say so. The online form isn't working though, so I wondered if anyone had an email address I could use to contact them?
water meter
Hi i own a hair salon and have been there for 5 years been paying water on RV. United utilities have sent me a letter saying i have to have a meter fitted is this true?
Huge unpaid water bill, what are our rights??
Hi guys, Just had an angry visit from an anglian water man giving my future wife a sherrifs warrant?? i think thats what he said?? Because my fiancee has stupidly not been paying her water bill for what sounds like forever, she's been a single mum and only working part time for the last 4 years so her circumstances have…
how much for a shower for 5mins?
hello, I have an old fashioned shower - the ones where you pull the lever on the taps to make the shower work. does anyone know how much it would roughly cost to run this for 5mins? thanks you
Anglian switching to quarterly billing?
Just received a shot out of the blue today, finding a metered water bill turning up after only 3 months instead of the usual 6. I'd got quite used to only paying it twice a year. Nice of them to tell me about this change! *grumbles* Good to see they're keeping their costs down by now having to send out double the number of…
Am I being hideously ripped off??
Hi! My partner & I had a financial crisis this morning...something which has prompted us to trawl through our accounts, direct debits etc etc. On doing so, I noticed we are paying £30.23 to Anglian Water monthly as well as £36.83 to Essex & Suffolk. I was under the impression that one was water, one sewerage. But even so,…
Should we be worried by this? - CCTC to go in Manhole
Hello, Our water company (via subcontractors) have recently been in touch. They are trying to resolve sewer flooding on our street (we've never been affected but 2 houses further along the street have). As part of the initial investigation to understand the flooding mechanism, they plan to undertake CCTV, manhole and flow…
Water bill help needed
We moved into a rented house last October. A few months ago we received a water bill for £1500, which was way over the typical usage of £50 a month for our family. Having contacted Anglian H2O they came and said that the leak was somewhere on the rented property and therefore not their responsibility. Finally we tracked…
cheapest water provider
Hi, please, could you recommend me the cheapest water supplier?
MSE news: Water bills set to fall, regulator reveals
This is the discussion thread for the following MSE News Story: "Water bills are likely to modestly fall in real terms by from next year under plans announced today by the industry regulator, Ofwat. Many households can take further steps to cut their bills by over £100 a year ..." Read the full story: Water bills set to…
Wrong number of bedrooms on water bill
Hi all, Long time reader first time poster. Thanks all for all the help I've picked up to date. I can't find an answer to my question here but please direct me if it's old hat. I noticed sometime ago that I was being billed for the incorrect number of bedrooms on my Thames Water Bill. I had never told them my 2 bed flat…
fluoride in water
I have not paid a WATER bill in two years (i WANT TO) severn trent water lied to me about this(putting it in our water supply ) and I refused to pay for mass medicated water.They say its nothing to do with them its the area health authority who gave them permission through the european union (although they have banned it…
Impossible to read my meter
I moved into a one bedroom flat in March this year. First of all the letting agents told me there wasn't a water meter, but on phoning Thames Water to register, they told me there was one! Thames Water said they would estimate what the meter reading was on me moving in, but I was welcome to submit a reading if I wanted!…
The Highest Domestic Water Bill Ever?
Further to a rather odd phone call from Yorkshire Water last week when they informed me, rather patronisingly, that I'd been reading the meter wrongly for two and a half years (on their instructions) and they had 'accidentally' taken £480 out of my bank account ... Today I receive the promised letter of explanation.…
The Little Plumber
Hi, I have posted a thread on the competition page about the chance to win a free little plumber. (littleplumber.com) These little gadgets hal soften water in your pipes but also save you money with your water bills so they are worth having. Anyway the compeition is free so it might be worth having a go. I am not an expert…
paying bills for an empty house
I received a bill for around £125 from Anglian Water for a house that has been empty and on the market for six months. :confused: The house is metered and the estimated bill showed a little usage, with the bulk of the cost being standing charge and sewerage. I rang them this morning and after arguing that I wasn't using…

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