They are installing a water meter against my wishes

vivatifosi

Our water bill in our new house is £80 a year cheaper than in our old house which was unmetered. This is even though:
* We now have a Megaflow-fed shower which uses more water
* We now have an external hospepipe for watering the garden

The water company and size of our household are unchanged.

Sambucus_Nigra

ruggedtoast wrote: »

Seriously, where do I have to park my car to stop their access to my water man-hole?

Presumably, on their man-hole?

jamespir

ive got a meter and i pay 29 pounds every 3 months

Dave101t

i hope they dont go fiddling about with my manhole...

jamespir

Dave101t wrote: »

i hope they dont go fiddling about with my manhole...

he connected ours to the pipe on the front no need to go round the back to the man hole

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Seriously, why is it so important to you to stop them doing something that will probably save you money? But in answer to your question, you don't need to park your car anywhere. All the water meters I've ever seen have been fitted inside the property.

PS If you're so keen on the river water and sea water then help yourself. Nobody's stopping you.

This reminds me a bit of the Carolt thread about removal of child benefit.

Lydiaj, thank goodness for you. The water being always and many times recycled was going to be my response too.


Re water metres all ours are outside and under their own small manholes.

MRSTITTLEMOUSE

I'm waiting to get my water meter fitted.
In my old house we paid £16 a month on a meter in this one we're paying £34 a month and that's just for two of us.

ChiefGrasscutter

Just yet another crazy thread on MSE.........they are getting more frequent.

Perhaps the OP should dig a well or drill a borehole (that will set you back around £10K) then they can indeed have the pleasure of using as much water as they like - apart from the cost of pumping it out in electricity and then there is maintenance, and filtration, and sampling/testing.....

If you take more than 20 cubic meters per DAY out of a well I think you need to pay for an abstraction licence - though only commercial multi-bore wells into a really good aquifier could delivery that sort of flow rate - it's approx 4500 gallons

lostinrates

ChiefGrasscutter wrote: »

Just yet another crazy thread on MSE.........they are getting more frequent.

Perhaps the OP should dig a well or drill a borehole (that will set you back around £10K) then they can indeed have the pleasure of using as much water as they like - apart from the cost of pumping it out in electricity and then there is maintenance, and filtration, and sampling/testing.....

If you take more than 20 cubic meters per DAY out of a well I think you need to pay for an abstraction licence - though only commercial multi-bore wells into a really good aquifier could delivery that sort of flow rate - it's approx 4500 gallons

We have a source of water we can plummet for water for ourselves (not a well, but rather a pond used as a resevoir). In addition we are installiung a grey water system into the house (ATM we use cleaned grey water (thanks to our new sewage treatment unit) to water the garden, but hope to install a very slightly more sophisticated system of seap hoses connected to the outflow in summer so that we don't do anything apart from fitting the hose back on in spring and disconnecting as the wetter autumn starts.).

Any one can set up water butts etc.


We use quite a bit of water, but its less awful having frequent baths if you know you will wash your clothes, then flush the loo then water the garden with it before gathering some of that water back to keep in resevoir. Having access to lots of water is important to us, so we feel having a system designed to make the most of it is responsible.

ruggedtoast

It sounds like this may actually save me money so I have decided to allow them to fit the meter as they want.

I will move my nissan off my big man-hole, and allow them full access to my small flap man-hole. I still don't really want them under my sink though.