water saving 11 January 2004 at 10:14PM edited 23 August 2010 at 5:00PM in Freebies (no spend required) 484 replies 358.6K views

JackieClarrie

This was a great tip, thanks Andrea. My water is metered and I'm constantly worrying about it so this will make a welcome difference to my bills I hope. As well as helping the environment of course.

System

Hi
Does anyone know if it would be beneficial for me, to have a water meter installed? There's just me & my son in my house & I pay almost £200 a year to Thames Water.

Andrea

Hi Miranda

There are a couple of past threads that may help you make your decision: Water bills questions and comment and Switching to water meter.

System

After seeing this thread on the newsletter I went to Anglian Waters web site (my supplier) and they have a similar device available FREE (a word we all love). For anyone else living in Anglian waters area if you mail [email protected] and leave your full postal address requesting a "Freddie Frog" water displacement device they will send one. I only asked for mine yesterday so I cant say how long it will take to arrive.

Oh and regarding meters v rates.... I live alone, only take showers and run my washing machine 1 or 2 times a week. My water bills vary between £35 and £50 per 6 monthly bill.

Sir_Stanley_Bowles

Thanks for that got mine this morning

regards Sir Stanley :-*

LincsLad_3

OK then, since I just had my meter installed yesterday (Anglian Water quote up to 10 working weeks for the SURVEY - fortunately he surveyed and fitted at the same time), I already have the Severn Trent bag - is the Anglian Freddie Frog better or worse in saving terms??

And £70-100 per year sounds a lot better than the £384 I currently pay them!!

AndieJ_2

It hasn't Grittyhubcap - just follow my instructions in the first post.  I had to put the underscore in because when I first posted the full link the profanity filter changed it (don't ask my why - i can't quite work out what rude word is in there).  ::)

t-w-a-t would be the word

Andrea

Er, yes. Thanks for that. As I said in a more recent post, I did finally work that out.

bridiej

Just ordered mine! Thanks for the tip... ;D

quickquid

When we had water shortages in 70's because of hot summers, we were told to put a housebrick in the cistern

Also spotted this for the loo  ;D :

Just noticed the profanity filter changed the url.  You'll have to cut and paste it and then remove the underscore between 'st' and 'watersmart'

https://vault2.secured-url.com/st_watersmart/index.asp