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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.…
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How to reduce water bill
Hi sorry if this has been posted a million times before! I am currently on a water metre, and there are two of us in a 2 bed flat. I pay £51 a month on our water bill, which i think is horrendous. But i dont know how to get our water down, we both work full time, so are only using water in the morning and evening. We wash…
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Severn Trent Water Bill
Good evening all, I hope everyone's well! I'm seeking some advice. Apologies in advance if this isn't the correct place to be asking for it. Back in August, we noticed that the toilet in the property we were renting at the time was leaking water from the cistern into the bowl. Actually, to be more specific, we heard that…
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Help - Northumbrian Water - Issued Claim Against Me
Northumbria Water have issued a Small Claim against me in the Northampton County Court Business Centre. Money Claims Online Essentially I owe them just short of £140 for a 6 month period this year after having a water meter installed. I paid them £30 in June and they issued this claim in August after 1 "missed" payment by…
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Southern Water - how much?
Moved into rented flat back in feb, 2 adults. The water IN bills charged by SouthEast water seem reasonable, works out about £11/£12 a month. Does that sound right? Just got a bill for water OUT from Southern Water, which works out at nearly £18 a month! Called Southern Water who don't own the pipes and told us to call…
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Community centre water rates
We run a new community centre in West Cumbria, and over the past few years of trying to get United Utilities to adjust our current water rates of £3800 pa to band 1 for community groups. They have rejected our application previously saying we are not a true community centre in there terms? Now we meet all there criteria in…
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Commercial water use at residential address
Wondered if any Northumbrian Water rep could help me? I'm self-employed and run a small cleaning company with my OH. We use about 3000 litres of water a week. We take the water from our home address. Our current water company asks us to estimate what % of our usage is domestic and what is for our business and bills us…
