Massive water bill - should tenants pay?

katejo

Have the tenants checked that the reading is correct ? Last October I got a huge bill with a warning letter . I checked the meter myself and found that the meter reader had not done his job properly and had taken a reading from a neighbour 's meter .

societys_child

They have now received a water bill for £950 - the large part of which is down to the leaking taps.

Don't be silly

Ulfar

Just to re-iterate a £950.00 water bill for 7 people is not massive if anything that is quite cheap.

Did they also complain about gas, electricity, phone bills as well.

jellie

dav964 wrote: »

the large part of which is down to the leaking taps.

How are you going to prove that this is the case?

princeofpounds

Got to own up here and admit that when I posted about having a claim against the landlord, I was thinking totally about the legal process and not about sense-checking the actual numbers.

Probably didn't help I also had an image of full-scale leaks in my mind!

So I do agree with what the others have said

spannerzone

Well at least they're lovely and clean plus learnt a very valuable life lesson about using resources wisely

G_M

martinsurrey wrote: »

£2 a meter cubed for water + sewerage

Say 2 taps drip every second and each drip is 0.1ml (this is a fairly large drop as well).

That’s 17 litres a day (86,400 X 2 X 0.1 / 1000)

Over a year thats 6,200 litres or 6.2 meters cubed, or £12.

A normal shower is about 8 litres per minute; say they each have 15 min showers every day and there are 7 of them (that’s a long shower, but my other half manages!) that’s 840 litres a day (8 X 15 X 7) or over a year 306,600 litres of water, or 306 meters cubed or £600. Add into this 7 people using the washing machine and 7 people’s toilet flushes and extra for baths and you will soon get up to £900 if you’re not careful

I would say that a drip isn’t going to be the real problem (unless it looks like its fully turned on all the time!

Your calculator is ON FIRE!

ValHaller

dav964 wrote: »

..... They have now received a water bill for £950 - the large part of which is down to the leaking taps.

Your workings please, which show this.

Debt_Free_Chick

dav964 wrote: »

They have now received a water bill for £950 - the large part of which is down to the leaking taps.

I was going to ask how you knew that the bill was due to the leaking taps ... but I think others have covered this and you seem to have taken that on board :T

I spend far too much time in the shower .... sigh

agrinnall

Debt_Free_Chick wrote: »

I was going to ask how you knew that the bill was due to the leaking taps ... but I think others have covered this and you seem to have taken that on board :T

I spend far too much time in the shower .... sigh

I don't think that's necessarily true; given that the OP hasn't posted again in this thread we have no idea what he's thinking. You may have mistaken princeofpounds' reply to his own post as one from the OP (which I admit I did on a first quick read).