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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…
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Meter installed but bill is still speculated, and higher??
Hi, just wonder if anyone is having similar issue. Basically, we have a two bed room flat and the water bill this year has gone up from over £20/month to £30/month. That’s why we asked to have the meter installed earlier this month because we’re sure that we don’t use much water. However, we just received a new bill saying…
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Water provider
I have been a customer of United Utilities for some time now and just wondered when we will get the opportunity of changing Water provider (like gas & electric) We need competition for the Water industry and be able to choose who we pay our water bills too. When is this likely to happen?
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How do I know if I have to pay surface water drainage costs?
As the title suggests, I'm confused over whether we should be paying for surface water drainage. I've seen various threads but to be honest, they have confused me even more! We live in a mid terraced property, built in 2005. The confusion started when a work colleague said that as we don't have a drainpipe (it goes into…
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Yorkshire high surface water & Thames high usage ?
I have a couple of queries regarding 2 properties in different regions, so the pricing is not really comparable, but I would like to know whether they are "about right" individually - hoping someone in a similar circumstance or with knowledge of existing general prices for each company can help :) For a 1 bed flat using…
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Water rates for unoccupied property
Hi, I hope someone can help me with this. I bought a property in July 2008 that I have been SLOWLY renovating at weekends. It is a victorian property and has been completely stripped back to the carcass with all new plumbing, electric, kitchen, bathroom etc. Southern water are insisting that I owe them over £1400 for…
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Water saving showerhead
Hi all, I've been looking at water saving showerheads, and some of them say they are not suitable for certain types of showers. My shower is a Triton LP which, after looking it up on the internet, seems to be a low pressure thermostatic mixer shower. I'm still none the wiser as to what kind of shower that is and what kind…
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Water BilL ST - Internal Leak?
Hi I am looking for some advice I brought an ex-council flat inMarch of this year which has a water meter fitted. Today I have received my bill which is a lothigher then I expected. I called SevernTrent to discuss the bill and they said there was defiantly a problem has theyread the meter on the 15th and I updated the…
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Family of 4 - Water Meter?
Would appreciate some advice, especially from families on switching to a water meter. I've worked out that on average I pay £37pm through direct debit currently. Would it be money saving to move to a meter. House of 4 (2 adults, 2 kids) although my husband is away most of the time, and only home every other weekend atm.…
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Summer hot water supply
Hi all My grandmother lives in her own apartment but pays an annual service charge which covers, amongst other things, the heating and water supply. In summer, understandably, they reduce the number of hours of the day that the heating is on. Whether this is linked or not I don't know but the amount of hot water available…
