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DedicatedDFW

Pizza sounds good by the way and i am hungry

Alchemilla

I think water meters make your house harder to sell. We have a well (and unfortunately a meter also).

edinburgher

Serious question - can you have a water meter removed?

Lois_E

edinburgher wrote: »

Serious question - can you have a water meter removed?

I think you can't, but I'm not sure. Sorry not to be more definite.


I think the rates for people without meters are set pretty high, so that most people are better off having one. I seem to remember hearing that it's done that way to encourage as many people as possible to have them, because they want everyone to be motivated to control their usage.

edinburgher

I asked as I've just finished reading an article about the chap who has the UK's largest domestic aquarium and his rather dodgy ways of 'borrowing' several thousand litres a week from his neighbour without a meter

DedicatedDFW

Alchemilla - thanks i nearly asked if you had a well but another thread i have read they have a well too so i thought i'd confused you :cool: Thanks for the input though

Alchemilla & Lois_E - thanks Lois E re. the info. on charges. Our charges are for water in and wastage out - a quick investigation shows we are paying less than £19 a month - not sure how this compares to others?

Ed - i seem to remember when the out-laws were having their water meter fitted they said they had x amount of time to change their mind on it. So after that time i'm like Lois i dunno

We've never had a water meter and what has made me reluctant is the stories of how some people save water. I mean i am on this site as i do like a bargain and to save money And as a child was very environmentally conscious re. recycling, not wasting etc. and continued this into adult life - but the water saving stories just make me _pale_ :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Alchemilla

I think you cant get it removed once in.

Brodiebobs

we were told we could have our removed within 6 months of moving in if we wanted to, but its still cheaper than what the rates would be so we left it. Think you have 6 months after one is fitted too.

Alchemilla

Ours has been in a decade probably.
£96 in l £ dl. £6 cable ties. £8 scrip.

Watty1

edinburgher wrote: »

Serious question - can you have a water meter removed?

Nah!! I tried. Mind you I'm down south so might be different in Scotland as it were. The house had a meter when we moved in. I'm sure it is wrong because the water usage never went down when we switched the yard/horses water to a non metered supply. (It now comes from a neighbours house which is unmetered in return for him putting his pipe across our fields rather than paying the water company some silly sum to put the pipe in the road. We did him a favour and he said we could T off it for the yard unless he is ever forced to use a meter). Theoretically this should have saved us money but never did. I just dont get that ????