compulsory water meter

Woby_Tide

is all the water filtered or only drinking water? What percentage of usage is drinking water compared to other usage around a house on average? Be interesting to see how much impact it does have, i.e. how much more on a meter you are paying over the rated value for the property?

Stevetech_2

Your local water company has the right to meter ay property at change of occupancy.They can also force businesses and high users to be watered against their will. (gets quite interesting for the crews who go out to fit them) You also need to make the meter accesible at reasonable hours so you cant put things over it or refuse entry during normal working hours to prevent it being read.

Stevetech

michael748 wrote:

hi

I moved house on 20dec...and three valleys water fitted a meter to the house the day i moved in. i had no notice, nor did i give permission.

TVW say they have the right to meter under the water ind act.

Is it my right to have an unmetered supply ?

cheers

Mike

Stevetech_2

Once a meter has been fitted it will not be removed, if it is internal and you remove it your water company can take you to court for their costs in fitting a new one. If you have a meter fitted and find the bills go up you can revert to a fixed charge but the meter will remain and the next account holder for the property will be charged on a meter. Estate agents who say that meters lower the value of houses are being economical with the truth as your water company can fit a meter at change of customer anyway. Thi applies to all areas although not all companies take up this option. Infact if your water company wants to meter you they can, it doesnt matter where you live if they have a good reason to meter you they will. A good exaple is someone who has had a waste water notice issued and ignored it. Your water company can fit a meter at the boundary and charge you for all the water you waste. If at all posible you should get an internal meter fitted as you are liable for any leakage and the pipe from the external stoptap to the house is prone to leakage and expensive to repair. Your local water company may have a free repair policy but these are being scrapped in an increasingly difficult market.

Babycakes

Three valleys have put a water meter in without me asking for one. They say they install one everytime there is a change of address.

http://www.3valleys.co.uk/home/ah_wm_compulsory.shtml

What upsets me is that I lived in a posh flat for years before we had kids and used virtually no water. Now we move into a house and have kids, the cheeky monkeys install a meter. Thats not fair! My kids go without showers and no one can flush the loo unless they do a number 2.

Hopefully the sewers will block up because there is more solid to liquid going down the drains.

If the water board concentrated on fixing leaks and paying their directors and shareholders less, then I might get more reasonable bills.

Woby_Tide

what was the rateable value on the property compared to the water meter charges? Even with 2 kids, daily baths and a sprinkler a while back our usage is still lower than the rateable value on our house

Hapless_2

Water meters are fair, pay for what you use. What can be fairer than that?

Mobeer

Silverwinglet wrote: »

I disagree that water meters are fair:
I am allergic to chlorine and to fluoride. Moreover fluoride is a drug formerly used to lower an overactive thyroid: I have an underactive thyroid.

I need to use a filter to removes these poisons, which I did not choose to put in my water and which are medicating me against my will. The only filter I have found which does the job is a reverse osmosis filter which renders 2% of the total usable and 98% goes down the drain!

Moreover the consequence of using the filter is that as well as the undesirables, it filters out essential minerals, and so the water leaches out those nutrients from my body which means I have to buy supplements to counteract this effect.

I am curently living in a metered house and soon to move to another metered property. I do not want a water meter, I am not being compensated for the damage these chemicals are causing nor for the extra financial burden I am incurring as a result.

I can't see anything fair in this it at all.

If you have a water meter, receive some form of state benefit and have a medical condition that requires you to use a large quantity of water then you may be entitled to pay a reduced bill. The details of this seem to vary between water companies.

roddydogs

I applied some time ago to have a meter fitted free. in the pack that arrived was this "fitting a water meter may affect the "Earth Bonding" of your Gas/Electrcity pipes, you must get this done at your expense.
i got an estimate for £75 from a sparky to have this done, provided that I lift all the floor boards! needless to say i declined the offer of a free meter.
If they make fitting one compolsory, who will pay for this "Bonding":D