Is my water bill high?

forgotmyname

2 bed on a meter, Under £300 a year, Pond and fishtanks also.

timbo58

£14.50 pcm for just me, 2 bed semi in Wiltshire.
2 Baths a week and Shower at least once a day, usually twice (cycle commuting!) and dishwasher/washing m/c used 1 or 2 times a week.

I can't believe the house didn't have a WM when I moved in and the RV was laughable at nearly £360!

Candy53

We're with Anglian, and our area seems high. We're unmetered.

Our new bill for the year is £490.77.

We get a discount of £38 a year as our surface water goes into a soakaway. If we didn't have that, the bill would have been £528.77.

So our monthly payments are £49.07.


Candy

iris

We are with Anglia Water and we are metered. We pay £4 per month direct debit (we are also in credit) and we are on their Solo tariff. We have a septic tank, which needs emptying every 3/4 years at a cost of £60. We also have soakaways.

We use on average 2 cubic meters of water per month as we are frugal and also have a water butt, which we use for the garden and car washing.

We have a WM, DW and power shower. Our toilets are dual flush.

We are two pensioners at home on average 24/7 except for holidays.

HappyMJ

iris wrote: »

We are with Anglia Water and we are metered. We pay £4 per month direct debit (we are also in credit) and we are on their Solo tariff. We have a septic tank, which needs emptying every 3/4 years at a cost of £60. We also have soakaways.

We use on average 2 cubic meters of water per month as we are frugal and also have a water butt, which we use for the garden and car washing.

We have a WM, DW and power shower. Our toilets are dual flush.

We are two pensioners at home on average 24/7 except for holidays.

That's only 30 litres of water per person per day. Not very much. A power shower would use that in less than 5 minutes and that's not counting your WM, DW and toilet visits.

Cardew

HappyMJ wrote: »

That's only 30 litres of water per person per day. Not very much. A power shower would use that in less than 5 minutes and that's not counting your WM, DW and toilet visits.

I suspect the poster means an electric shower.

We get loads of posts where people confuse the terminology.

IRIS,

A power shower uses water from a hot water tank that is pumped at considerable pressure to the shower head - it uses a great deal of water.

iris

Cardew wrote: »

I suspect the poster means an electric shower.

We get loads of posts where people confuse the terminology.

IRIS,

A power shower uses water from a hot water tank that is pumped at considerable pressure to the shower head - it uses a great deal of water.

Yes, we have got a power shower with water direct from hot water cylinder. My husband has checked the amount used during our usual shower and this equates to about a large bucket. Of course this will depend on how long you want to stand under the shower wasting water. Our shower is a Redring Digital Mixer Shower, which is claimed to be one of the most economical showers on the market. It is operated with a handset for both heat and water pressure.

We also have a gravity fed shower in our ensuite, which uses even less water, but this shower isn't used very often.

We also use the old Australian saying 'if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down'.

We also catch the water in a large jug whilst waiting for hot water to come through to the kitchen sink, which is then used for other things.

We use our DW every other day and the WM twice a week on average. We also use a bowl in the sink for washing up and washing vegetables. We also recycle water wherever possible.

di3004

We live in a 3 bed mid link house. We have one bathroom, one toilet and a shower.
Our total bill for the new year will be £515.72 a year.

So £51.57 a month over 10 months

This makes up of:

Water Charge @ £215.72
Sewerage Charge @ £300.00
= £515.72

Welsh Water/Dwr Cymru

Fishingtime

I live on my own in a 3 bed semi and I pay £27 a month to Anglian water