£260 water bill for the year, about right?

Sandwich

Just got a bill through from Severn Trent water for £129 for the next six months. Seems a bit high to me, given that I live by myself in a one bedroom flat. What do you guys think? About right?

daisy_jean

Yeah that's about right, in fact you're lucky!

When I lived in Nottingham - our bill was around £475 a year for a 2-bed flat!! We were unmetered, and cos it was a rented flat we couldn't get the meter changed over!

I wish our bills had only been £260 per year!!

escortg3

Sandwich wrote: »

Just got a bill through from Severn Trent water for £129 for the next six months. Seems a bit high to me, given that I live by myself in a one bedroom flat. What do you guys think? About right?

We are on a water meter with Welsh Water and there are two of us in a 4 bedroom house. Our bill is £280.00 per year for last twelve months.

I use washing machine every day. We both shower every day and sometimes i have a bath. I water the garden and use the dishwasher once a day. Our yearly bill was £650.00 so we make a huge saving on a meter:T

Sandwich

Thanks for the info guys. Just paid the bill. Bill seem to be getting rapidly more expensive each year!

mcc100

Sandwich

Have you considered having a water meter fitted. It is likely that you would save money.

zzzLazyDaisy

I doubt it - OP would have to be a very low user to pay less than £20 a month on a water meter. According to this table, the average bill for a one bedroom flat with Severn Trent is £318 per annum (not sure how up-to-date the survey is).

http://www.whatprice.co.uk/utilities/water-bills.html

OP's bill of £129 for six months is way under that average.

Cardew

Sandwich wrote: »

Thanks for the info guys. Just paid the bill. Bill seem to be getting rapidly more expensive each year!

Severn Trent's water charges have not increased this year.

Living on your own you might be a little better off with a meter.

mcc100

zzzLazyDaisy wrote: »

I doubt it - OP would have to be a very low user to pay less than £20 a month on a water meter. According to this table, the average bill for a one bedroom flat with Severn Trent is £318 per annum (not sure how up-to-date the survey is).

http://www.whatprice.co.uk/utilities/water-bills.html

OP's bill of £129 for six months is way under that average.

I have come across some useless websites in the past but that one has to be the worst.

fabwitch_2

I have two water bills a year for sewage waste and clean water csting just over £600 a year, this is double for what I used to pay in London, Apparently Essex charges for each separately, not good at all xxx

Broomstick

We are a household of me plus two teenage sons (16 & 18).
We all only ever have shortish showers and never use the bath.
We wash-up by hand.
Our washing machine is a lower water use one but we probably use it daily if all laundry is included.
We don't water the garden or wash the car.

We are metered and my latest bill for about 5 1/2 months is £140.

HTH

JasX

Metered here too, get thru about £198pa with Thames water