Cost of running a hose, per hour?

newsgroup_monkey

output pressure legally must be at least 1bar or 9 L/min although usually these are nearer 20 L/min.

If this is the case, it would be around 6 cubic metres (6000L). It certainly shouldn't be £40. More like £12 - £15.

1000 Litres every 15 minutes is 67 litres a minute. It's unlikely you'll do that without a pump!

I think 1000 litres an hour is more like it.

[Deleted User]

£40 should just about cover it. If I were your neighbour then a bottle of `plonk` and flowers would not do. It is not just a token gesture that is needed but covering the full cost. I would give some flowers as well as the £40

If they are nice neighbours then they will see the actual cost in their bill when they get it and will probably refund you the difference if £40 is too much.

Good neighbours are like gold and they will remain good neighbours if they see that you care

alleycat`

newsgroup_monkey wrote: »

output pressure legally must be at least 1bar or 9 L/min although usually these are nearer 20 L/min.

If this is the case, it would be around 6 cubic metres (6000L). It certainly shouldn't be £40. More like £12 - £15.

1000 Litres every 15 minutes is 67 litres a minute. It's unlikely you'll do that without a pump!

I think 1000 litres an hour is more like it.

I would tend to agree with you that the value should be no more than a maximum of £15 or so but i was basing my values on the data as supplied by water companies.

I suspect their values are seriously exaggerated.
What i was trying to do was suggesting that the OP should budget for it to be up to that amount.

If it works out at about a tenner I'd have said some nice flowers and a bottle of something nice would have covered it especially as the OP was not at fault.

Really the builder should be paying the water cost but a nice gesture on top never goes a miss.

J_J_Carter

OT, but £2 per cubic m shows that putting a hose on the garden once a week (in the evening, directed at plant base) is really quite cost effective compared to losing plants and having reduced crops.

mrbadexample

kittie wrote: »

£40 should just about cover it. If I were your neighbour then a bottle of `plonk` and flowers would not do. It is not just a token gesture that is needed but covering the full cost. I would give some flowers as well as the £40

I'd say sorry and promise to take it up with the builders. I'd then pass on whatever the builders gave me. If they were really nice neighbours, I might bake them a cake. They'd probably get some spare veg once it had grown anyway. I wouldn't be giving them £40.

theGrinch

I wouldn't bother splittting hair. just give her a generous figure for being helpful and neighbourly and then take it off the builder.

eliselady

Update!

In the end I went round with a bunch of flowers and £25. They were very grateful. They are such lovely people (babysit my kids in emergencies etc)

Builder back:)

Thank you.
:beer:

BallandChain

Did you get the money back off the builder once you paid your neighbours?

newsgroup_monkey

J_J_Carter wrote: »

OT, but £2 per cubic m shows that putting a hose on the garden once a week (in the evening, directed at plant base) is really quite cost effective compared to losing plants and having reduced crops.

I told my OH that on Wednesday night. She looked at me in shock.

I found out we may be able to get an allotment, but it doesn't have any water and it's on a hill. She poo poo'd the idea because she said the water cost would be horrendous. I pointed out that even if we used 100 litres a day, it would cost less than £2 a week to water.