Water Meter

garcon6

Have been washing the pots/pans once a day usually in the evening, and don't flush the toilet after each use. Every little bit helps also when we are work we won't be using any water. Utlity bills are so expensive.

yangptangkipperbang

garcon6 wrote: »

Bought bottled water from Tesco 17p this will be used for the kettle.

Why does ANYONE, connected to mains water, buy bottled ????

Steve059

As pointed out, the bottled water thing is false economy on an industrial scale.

Other more effective things are ...

Wash up at the time, don't leave it to soak and the water go cold and have to be replaced. (Oops. Do as I say, don't do as I do. BRB.)

Use the shower instead of the bath. However, a long shower can use as much water and energy as filling a bath, which you can wallow in until the water gets cold or you go wrinkly.

Put a 1 litre bottle of (tap) water in the toilet cistern.

If fitted, use the dual flush as intended, or even "If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down".

Don't leave the tap running when, for example, brushing your teeth.

quotememiserable

cb1979 wrote: »

the thieving water companys will increase their prices to maintain profits

water prices are set by ofwat the regulator not the companies. The world is not out to get you after all.

nickcc

quotememiserable wrote: »

water prices are set by ofwat the regulator not the companies. The world is not out to get you after all.

Average charge without meter with South West Water £600, with meter £900 two people one using shower and one using bath, also working on the if its brown flush it down if its yellow let it mellow system for the WCs. Changing to meter was the most expensive mistake we have ever made. All surface water goes to soakaways so no charge for surface water.

macman

Strange. My mother isn an SWW customer and her bill went down to 25% of what she was paying on RV billing when she switched to a meter. So you must be very heavy users (or have an undetected leak) for a family of two to have a 50% billing increase. I suggest you do a flow test!
So why didn't you switch back to RV billing in the first 12m though?

nickcc

Put the extra cost down to Wife using bath rather than shower, shower room only before meter fitted. Hoped it would even out over the year but it didn't and by then to late to change back, should have taken more notice I suppose but you learn from your mistakes.

macman

So you were not comparing like with like.

nickcc

What I am saying is the annual water bill would have still been £600 per annum if we had not changed to a water meter, immaterial of whether we had a bath, shower or whatever.