Water Bills - Non Metre - Over £1,100? Something must be wrong!

DannyWhoWorks

Hey, I live in a student house with 6 other people. Someone in the house has set up the water bills for us. One bill, for the water, is £250 for the year (that's sewege), the other bill, for the running water, is £212 per quarter!

that would mean all together for a year it's £1,100 surley something is wrong with that? My father is paying just £350 altogether for both waters.

Btw, both are non meters.

Thanks for any advice!

macman

If it's non-metered, then it's based on the RV of the property, which is a historic value and cannot be challenged. The property is presumably a large one that has a very high RV?
Water prices vary by up to 250% depending on region, so what your father pays on RV is simply not relevant.
It's just over £3 per person per week.
You could of course switch to metered billing, but with 7 of you in a property you might well be paying even more.

mcc100

DannyWhoWorks wrote: »

Hey, I live in a student house with 6 other people. Someone in the house has set up the water bills for us. One bill, for the water, is £250 for the year (that's sewege), the other bill, for the running water, is £212 per quarter!

that would mean all together for a year it's £1,100 surley something is wrong with that? My father is paying just £350 altogether for both waters.

Btw, both are non meters.

Thanks for any advice!

This someone in the house may be pulling a fast one and making money out of you all.

ash28

DannyWhoWorks wrote: »

Hey, I live in a student house with 6 other people. Someone in the house has set up the water bills for us. One bill, for the water, is £250 for the year (that's sewege), the other bill, for the running water, is £212 per quarter!

that would mean all together for a year it's £1,100 surley something is wrong with that? My father is paying just £350 altogether for both waters.

Btw, both are non meters.

Thanks for any advice!

Don't know where you are but we left a large 4 bed house last year in the Thames Valley and our total bill water was around £900 a year.

It's worked out on the old rateable value system (before the council tax) and ours had quite a high rateable value. Values were originally assessed by the Valuations Office. They were based on, among other things, the number of rooms you had, the size of the house, the amenities in the house, where the house is, etc etc...

There is a charge (different for each water authority) of say 40p per £ of rateable value for waste water and 60p per £ for water and that gives you part of your bill, the other part is the fixed charge - based on the size of your pipe and covers highway and surface water and maintaining the network. You will probably have 2 fixed charges - one for water and one for waste water.

We moved last year into a bigger house in a different area with a metre and our bill is less than half of what we paid to Thames Water.

You have the option of changing to a metre - but with 7 of you living in the house you might find the bill higher.

In our last house we used to have an American top loading washing machine and it used loads of water - I didn't have to think about the amount. We used to use the sprinkler on the garden, us a hosepipe to wash the car and just let it run.....the washing machine went before we moved! The garden is watered using a watering can now and the car doesn't get washed as often and certainly not with a running hose.