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Leaking Nightmare!
Being a single mum on a low income I hoped that having a water meter fitted would lower my monthly outgoings. Alas my water bill has gone up to £100 per month. Severn Trent say their meters are rarely faulty and suggest I have a leak on my supply pipe. I've done all the flow supply tests and yet the numbers keep rolling. I…
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Cut my water bill by almost half
I feel victorious. In the first 6 months in my new flat, and with my first 6 monthly metre read from United Utilities I've managed to cut my water bill from £302 to £197 a year. I live alone so I'm not battling with other householders, but it takes quite a lot to get a bill down that far and you have to be consistent. Bear…
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Shared supply?
Hi all We are in the process of buying a new house and on the survey it came up that the property may have a Shared supply. I got in touch with the water company's 'Developer services' team who advised me that it did, and there would be a cost in exceeding £1,000 to have this rectified. When I asked the seller if they…
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Help! Wrong Estimate leading to Massive Actual Reading Bill
Hi, I am in a massive bill dilemma and I am hoping someone can help me. I am in a 1 bed house, a couple working full time. House has a standing shower, a simple kitchen tap and a simple bathroom sink. I recently received my Water bill for a usage of 117m3 from June 2018 to Dec 2018(188 days), 117000L for 188 days, working…
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Crazy water bills! Please advise!
Hello, I suspect my water company is screwing with me. Thames Water charges me for 152 cubic metres of water per year. That's 152 tons of water. I live alone and am extremely frugal with my water usage: no dishwasher, taking no baths (no time for that, really), take most showers in the gym, recycle used water for plants…
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Blue Dot Appeared On Wall
Coming home this morning, I noticed a blue dot (about 2" diameter) had been painted on our front garden wall. I'm wondering if this is some sort of marker for the water utility contractors? We have a water meter a couple of feet from the 'dot'. Just curious really - wondered if anybody knew the answer?
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Water meter and water leaks
In November 2018 my new water bill arrived and I decided to have a water meter fitted as there are only the 2 of us Meter fitted and readings were ok: useage normal and no leaks The DD's were halved A few months later I received a letter stating my water useage was high. I had to crawl under the floorboards and found there…
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Do I have to have a new water meter
Hi, I got the estimate from the water company, I'm fine with it. I generally overpay in my payment card anyway. Now they are bugging me because they couldn't access the meter. I often work at night so it's a real hassle for me to let people into my flat at any time in the day, I am asleep and I don't hear anyone knocking…
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What do you think about water?
Water is everything. We drink with it, we bathe in it, and we grow things in it . But most of us don’t really think about it. Population growth and climate change mean that needs to change. How much water we need, and how we use it will be different in the future. And of course, not forgetting to think about how much we…
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Who should pay the bill? Backdated water bill
Hello, So my ex up and left me with a baby and dissabled child 3 months ago. I stayed in the house amd he continued to pay most of the utilities, which were due to be slowly tranfered to me. Last week he said he was going to cancel all the bills within the week. I asked if he could hold off till after Christmas but he…
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Cheap energy suppliers who don't insist on smart meters being installed.
I posed this question elsewhere not realising this section existed. Can anybody recommend some small/cheaper energy suppliers where having a smart meter installed is not a compulsory part of the del? Your recommendations and experiences would help please. Thanks.
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Severn Trent Amey duped me into a meter upgrade
:mad:We have been resisting the march of the smart meter. We had a water meter installed some years ago (in the house) with a remote external reading point. ST have been trying to get us to upgrade our meter to a smart meter but without success. I was about to go out earlier today when there was a knock at the door from an…
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Single person tariff for water
I live on my own in a one bedroom flat. I applied to have a water meter fitted. I was fairly sure that they wouldn't be able to, as my flat is in a converted house and the pipework is hidden and a bit complicated, and there isn't a stoptap for each flat. I was indeed told that I could not have a meter. But the best bit - I…
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Wrongly billed for 3 houses!
Hello Forum-ers, Here's the situation: in Spring of this year, a meter was installed at my holiday cottage in Scotland by Scottish Water. I'd been given a rough approximation of how much the bills should be for the full year for my water only service (no waste as we have a septic tank so is deal with separately) and was…
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Anglian Water Refunds
Hope this is the right place to post, I have seen a few posts online this morning regarding refunds from Anglian Water for people being charged for surface water drainage that they don't have. The post states "The refund dates back to January 2013 and doesn't have to be your current property; you can claim for the last one…
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Fridge water filter
Bought a Panasonic American style fridge/freezer, with ice maker and water dispenser, about a year ago. It has a small water filter cartridge, which is supposed to be changed every six months. I actually have a bigger external water filter, with two different cartridges, for feeding the fridge, as well as the Insinkerator…
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What does a tonne of water cost?
Just preparing to contest a billing start figure for the water meter at a property. If anyone has a bill to hand can you advise roughly what a cubic meter of water costs please.
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Thames Water late payment fee?
Is it legal for Thames Water to charge a fee for late payment? Do other utility companies do this? I normally pay my bills as they come in (bi annually in Thames Water's case) i usually pay them fairly promptly. Now TW want to charge me £18.18 for late payment how do they arrive at this figure? it was an estimated bill but…
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United untility
Hi I really need some advice as this is really stressing me out. I lived in shared accommodation two years ago and somehow my name ended up on the water bill. We all moved out and went our separate ways then recently I was applying for a mortgage and noticed there was a ccj on my report and I had no idea why. I did some…
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Thames Water penalising waterbutts
I wonder if anyone else has encountered this oddity in Thames Water's (TW) policy regarding surface water drainage I recently contacted TW about getting a discount on my waste water charge, since my roof water guttering all drains to a soakaway. I have architects plans from 1984 that show this to be the case, passed to me…
