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Strange water bill in current tenants' names
Greetings, I have let a small flat to 2 tenants about 1 month ago. As I had some urgent business to attend to, I was abroad from the next day tenants moved in until this week, when my tenants showed me a strange water bill (Thames water) in their names -- one person as account holder, and the other on as additional account…
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SW Water don't care we have free supply!
So we discover during building renovations that a random pipe in the house we've owned for 2 years is actually a 2nd rising main. Unmetered, and it taps into a pipe which is shared by our neighbouring preschool and allotment site. Understandably, we would like this pipe cut off. We have no plans to actually use this water…
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Scottish Water have left me in the poo..... Should I have to claim on my insurance.
Moved to insurance forum. https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/62017009#Comment_62017009 .
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I am paying alot more
Hi I have owned this house for 11 years . My water rates this year are £650. I have always paid on time. And it just got me thinking how do people on benefits afford these water rates. Anyway I have spoke to a number of neighbours and they are all paying £30 a month max, we live in a very modest 3 bed semi. None of my…
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Broken boiler Help!
Hi, Three weeks ago my boiler in my flat I share with my friends started to break. It would work for a bit then a light would show up that it was not working. A week later it completely packed up so my friend contacted the landlord and reported it. He said he would send someone out to fix it. A week later we hadn't heard…
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Landlord Permission to get water meter fitted?
Hi I've just received a huge water bill for my newly rented property, I wasn't aware when we moved in that the property was un-metered and there is nothing in my contract about this either. I've called our supply and they have suggested that we get a meter installed as out bill is almost 5 times as much as our previous…
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Unpaid water bill
Have received a letter from a solicitor working on behalf of Southern Water advising that I owe £522.00 dating from 2006-2009. I understood that my rent at this property included water bills. i cant raise any evidence to back this up as the agent for the property no longer exists and my rental agreement is completely…
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water softening
Can anyone recommend a place or site to buy a good water softener in US.
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HUGE water bill, what next?
My MIL moved into sheltered accommodation back in December and has just got her first water bill, it is nearly five hundred pounds! I have a four bedroom house and three kids and mine is only two hundred pounds a year! They came out and re-read her meter from the outside and it has gone up a huge amount since the original…
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0.5 m3 per day for water
Hi all, first time on a meter and online it states we are using 0.5 m3 per day, is this normal for a 2 person household? We are in most days as well so it probably gets used quite a lot.
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Kids moved out
We have five children who have now all left home.I pay around £45 every month to Thames Water by DD.As our water usage has now gone down would the above company take notice and reduce the DD.Just need some advice before I contact them. Mark B
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Water company profits
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/utilities/10109140/Water-giants-profits-and-tax-morally-questionable-says-Ofwat-boss.html
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Sewage backflowing into my house through drain when it rains.
Hi all Hope this is in the correct place. I've lived in an old 2 storey house near the bottom of a hill down which runs a road for 10 years. Downstairs there is a shower room / toilet & the house borders directly onto the pavement. (The house was built in 1895). Its a small rural village (population 400ish) and there has…
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Shared drain - who pays?
Hi On my patio we have a drain cover which (roughly every 2 years) blocks up and leaves lots of ummn, "toilet waste" all over the patio. I currently cover external drains by paying extra on my boiler cover, but someone has told me that since it's a *shared* external drain between us and the neighbours (the other side of…
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any way to work out new water rates for a property?
Wondering if anyone can help, we are looking to move into a 3 bed house, there are 2 of us at the moment and a baby on the way. The house that we are looking at is a big 1900 victorian 3 level kind of house with a loft room. Is there any way to find out how much water rates would likely be? I cant find any guidance by…
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Recompense due from Severn Trent?
Hello all, new here, hope someone can offer advice - I have searched the forums and have not found a similar query. We moved into our house in 1999. Today received notification from Severn-Trent (ST) that from then until 2007 they had been wrongly charging us for surface drainage. In view of this we are being refunded…
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Severn Trent water and court
Hi i hope somebody can help with this, we moved in to our council flat last april, got water bill mid july with a final demand, as my wife is on DLA and i am her carer i asked for a payment agreement, the said i had to pay £30 per month to pay bill before next bill was due to which i agreed, i made first 3 payments and due…
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Water Bill / Court Fee
Simple one someone might be able to answer..... if you get county court papers come through claiming you owe Anglian Water £300 + £65 in court fees, and you accept the owed amount and pay off the £300 outstanding the same day you get the papers through the post...... are you still liable to pay the £65 even though you have…
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Debt Card Tranaction
Hi, Please can you help. I paid my monthly Yorkshire Water bill online, last week. I quickly realized that I had actually paid the full years bill by accident. I phoned YW to resolve my error. They advised me that they would have to wait for the transaction to clear before they could refund me the amount that I had…
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anglian water 2 & half year dept
Hi, I searched the forum but cant find anything that resolves my dilemma basically I was living in a rented house with my ex partner and when we split up I left her with the rental deposit to sort out any depts. on water/gas & electric after moving out a few months later I received a call from dept agency saying I owed…