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Water meter..is it worth it for me?
I am moving to a 5 bedroom house next month and there is no water meter there. The annual water bill for the house is just over £1200 which sounds excessive to me considering that only one person lives in the house. For the five of us (me, my partner and 3 children) our current water bill (on meter- 4 bed house) is about…
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Servern Trent> Meter> tenants.
We have recently moved into a rental property. Before we moved we asked our new landlord if we could have a Meter fitted as we've had a Meter previously and saved around £200 per year by doing so. The landlord refused. Before taking on the property I spoke to an advisor at ST who said as we had requested one but the…
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Water Leak but who has pipe responsibility in a shared ownership house?
Today I have discovered we have a leak in the pipe somewhere between our home and the meter about 100 yards up the road (thanks to a hefty water bill!) We have somebody coming to investigate further from ST tomorrow afternoon but in the meantime I am struggling to understand who needs to take responsibility for this pipe.…
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Welsh Water grrrrr
Hi I wonder if anyone could give a bit of advice? My elderly mother changed to a water meter in January of this year. She lives alone and her water usage was minimal. Prior to the meter she was paying around £45 per month, we don't live close to each other and I just thought her monthly payments would be down to about £20…
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Are we paying too much for our hot water?
Hi guys, we're just looking for a little bit of advice on our hot water bill. We're a young couple (23 and 25) living in a new build 1 bed apartment in West London. We are the first people to live in our flat, therefore there were no previous bills to guide us, only what we had been told by estate agents, landlords and…
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Water meter - a quick question
Had a water meter installed yesterday (Thames Water). The limited blurb I received suggested that they don't read them very often - I think it said it would be six months or more before they take the first reading. So my question is: will I continue to pay my previous fixed monthly amount (£58) until they take that first…
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Tenants check your water bill!
Well I wanted to warn people who are innocent renters out there, as I have been. When I moved into this rented property back in 2003 I was told by my landlady that this property has low water rates and not to worry about it. When I received my first water bill back then I was shocked how low it was and still had been. I…
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Anyone with South East water?
Moving areas next year and the water company will be South East Water. Anyone here with them that can tell me what the monthly water rates are please? Or will they tell me if I call them and tell them the address?
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CCJ From United Utilities
Thank you for your time in looking at this thread. Tomorrow I shall be attending court to try and dispute a CCJ claim from United Utilities. I am looking for any advice / tips that I can put forward during my hearing. I moved out of a rented property on the 17th August 2015. Somehow I missed notifying UU that I was moving…
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Anglian Water Say New Tariff is Better for me?
Hello everybody. Any replies would be more than welcome. First of all I've always been on Anglian Waters standard tarrif. I'm on a Water Meter. Water supply standing charge per annum £29 charge per cubic meter £1.4608 Sewerage services per annum £86 charge per cubic metre £1.5775 I was using lots more water than normal and…
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Thames Water bill just increased >19%
I just received my annual statement from Thames Water, and it shows an increase in my monthly charge from £26 to £31 (more than 19%). I have a metered account, and the water usage patterns in my household have remained constant for several years (i.e. we are not using significantly more than we were 5 years ago). I have…
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Southern Water over charging
My account with Southern Water is £120 in credit - my direct debit needs to be reduced by £15 per month to stop a credit balance building up but SW will only reduce the DD by £5 so the interest free loan they are helping theirselves to will only increase - I haven't had any explanation for this, their 'customer service'…
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Water leak responsibility - help!
Unfortunately I have a problem - losing about one litre of water a minute. The leak is somewhere in the service pipe which runs from the water meter, 80 yards down a council owned track, up my drive and into my garage. There is also a further section that goes from garage to house. I have standard Saga insurance that does…
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Am I paying too much?
Hello everyone, I was speaking to a friend recently about water charges and now I'm not sure if I am paying too much. I am with Anglian water and pay for water and sewage charges together and my last bill from July 2015 - March 2016 was £383.91 so I am paying £63.73 a month. Does that seem high? It is more than I was…
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United Utilities - Pensioner Rip Off
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone can advise on the following - I'll stick to the nuts and bolts to keep it shortish!! My mother is now 71, and bordering on housebound. 4yrs ago she moved into a retirement block of flats, warden assisted etc. Most of the flats are one bed, like hers, with a handful of 2 bed. She had been…
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Why are my bills higher than others?
I live alone in a 2 bedroom flat built in 2009. I have showers instead of baths, run the washer on 5 loads a week and toilet is flushed about 40 times a week. My DD with Severn Trent is £14.85 pcm. Now, I have two colleagues that again live on their own in the same area in two bed terraces - built 1979-82 and their monthly…
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Water meter problem - help please!
Hi everyone, this is my first post on the site so please be nice! My partner and I are students in South West London. We privately rent a flat on the ground floor underneath two other flats and behind an office which the landlord's daughter works in. We have recently had problems with both our gas and our water bills - the…
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Never had to pay for water before- is £930pa normal?
Just moved into a puny studio flat in Cornwall with no dishwasher, no washing machine, no bath and no garden. (edit- wrote this first time round on my mobile) Was greeted by a south west water bill for £340 from now until March , great start to the day. I'm assuming I ant have a meter installed as there's 3 flats here so…
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Why am i getting a refund?
I received a letter from Yorkshire Water today, informing me they are repaying a big chunk tomorrow by direct credit. I've had no previous correspondence from them about this and I had not requested any over payment to be refunded. And why have I overpaid more than £200 in the first place? Have I missed something happening…
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letting agent should have paid water bills
hi - not sure which section this shoukl be in so please bear with me. My friend has been renting a property since 2011. Initially it was with a letting agent. About a year ago, the landlord began to manage his properties himself. When it was with the agent, the monthly payment to them was rent and water rates included.…
