Southern Water

delluver

We just moved in to Swale to a small parish only to be told that our unmetered water charges will amount to £40 pm!!! Being used to only £20 pm in Medway, this came as a bit of a shock. It's a 1990s 2 bed semi, with the two of us and one on the way. Can't help thinking that we're being royally ripped off.

Is anyone else paying as much as this? Is there anything I can do about this apart from having a meter installed?

oldwiring

Do both figures include both water supply and sewerage disposal? Also Ratreabe values reflect the desireabilyy of an area and rental values ( somewhat notional) when the valuations were done. Therefore one cannot draw a conclusion about fairness.

delluver

oldwiring wrote:

Do both figures include both water supply and sewerage disposal? Also Ratreabe values reflect the desireabilyy of an area and rental values ( somewhat notional) when the valuations were done. Therefore one cannot draw a conclusion about fairness.

Yes as I said this is the total bill - we only use the one company for waste and supply and the total bill amounts to double that of most other unmetered south eastern homes.

Looks like it's tough cheese doesn't it. Water meter here we come I think.

wirehair

I pay £51 a month to southern water,on my bungalow! 2 Beds.

delluver

wirehair wrote:

I pay £51 a month to southern water,on my bungalow! 2 Beds.

No way! that's awful. My parents live in a "more posh" rural area than this, but I take it that it's coz we had it all valued not that long ago when we went from cess pit to sewer network.

oldwiring

Pleas all note that I am not getting at any one, but I do wonder if our perceptions that we are getting ripped off arise because water does not come top of our 'feel-good' making things, though without it we would soon feel ****** bad. So the OP's bills are going up £20 ish a month, how many pints of the amber liquid or pakets of 20 is that? Would it be an unmitigated disaster if one had to cut back on such? TBH are we too self indulgnet?

delluver

oldwiring wrote:

Pleas all note that I am not getting at any one, but I do wonder if our perceptions that we are getting ripped off arise because water does not come top of our 'feel-good' making things, though without it we would soon feel ****** bad. So the OP's bills are going up £20 ish a month, how many pints of the amber liquid or pakets of 20 is that? Would it be an unmitigated disaster if one had to cut back on such? TBH are we too self indulgnet?

Trust me it amounts to a lot when you're only just getting by. I don't even drink the amber liquid - prefer water, but it doesn't taste any better when you have to pay more for it than others.