Saving Water - Tips

widgery

Hi. I save water by having a bucket in the bathroom. You know when you run your shower and the water is cold at first? Instead of letting that clean water that I've paid for run down the drain I collect it in my bucket. Next time I flush the loo I pour the contents of my bucket in to the cistern to help fill it back up.

I do this for the shower and when I'm running the hot water tap for washing up/baths and other stuff. It's saved me about £10 on my water bill.

ljonski

a 1 litre bottles of water (from your shower !) in the WC cistern

Penelope_Penguin

The best way to save loads on water bills is to wash (yourself and your clothes) less often. Unless you work in a heavy manual job, you don;t need to change your outer clothes daily.

I also understand that some people change their bedding and towles daily - that's not necessary either, for the vast majority of us

As this has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to the existing thread to keep ideas together.

Penny. x

Trinny

Hello all

To add my water saving habits to the ops list - we:

1. Use harvested rain water to flush the loo - just keep a watering can at the side of the loo with rain water in it, and pour it in to the toilet bowl until the bowl is clean.

2. Save water which comes out of shower while its warming up to flush the loo

3. Use old washing up water ( use ecover washup liquid) to water patio plants ( NB no good for plants growing food you will later eat - but good enough for the flowers)

We have a water meter - and are down £50 per quarter on bills since doing this

BW all

Trin

HoneyBee83

Hello

Wow my second thread start of the day,i am on a roll!! :rotfl:

I'm looking for tips on how to get my monthly water DD down. Im sure there are threads on this but i've not had any luck in my search...i bet the first answer will be a direct link sorrryyy im new to this!

At the moment its £40.10 a month and has been for the last year but thats alot!There are 2 of us,me and my 4yr old. I'd love to get a water meter fitted but i rent and the landlord has refused!
I'm not wasteful at all,here are some of the things i do:

*I shower everyday but i have a shower over the bath so my daughter joins me for her bath.
*I turn taps off between soaping hands and rinsing.
*I fill a cup with water for brushing teeth instead of leaving the tap running.
*I use a steamer for veggies.
*I let my washing build up so i do 3 large loads (including bed sheets and towels a week) instead of 6 small ones like some of my friends...this may go down in sept as daughter starts school and therefore will have uniform instead of play clothes for nursery each day.
*I boil a full kettle in the morning and fill a thermal flask.
*I did have a water butt but it cracked during the snow so i am having to use taps to water at the mo but will replace asap!
*I fill 2L coke botttles with water and keep in fridge for drinks

There maybe more if i really think but im sure you guys can give me some pointers too??....pleeease!!

davetrousers

HoneyBee83 wrote: »

Hello

I'd love to get a water meter fitted but i rent and the landlord has refused!

If you're not on a meter then you billed by the rateable value of the property. You could use 1000 litres a day or 10, you'll pay the same amount.

Gigervamp

I was just about to say the same thing as davetrousers!

Psykicpup

But if yur tenancy is for 6 months or more I belive your landlord cannot refuse to allow you have a meter fitted - HTH

Penelope_Penguin

HoneyBee83 wrote: »

i bet the first answer will be a direct link

Maybe not the first answer, but there's this thread As this isn't an Old Style thread, I'll move and merge it into that thread later.

HoneyBee83

davetrousers wrote: »

If you're not on a meter then you billed by the rateable value of the property. You could use 1000 litres a day or 10, you'll pay the same amount.

mmmm i did wonder about that! But it never hurts to ask.

Psykicpup:But if yur tenancy is for 6 months or more I belive your landlord cannot refuse to allow you have a meter fitted - HTH

This is interesting.I'll have to go to the letting agent and ask them about this!

Penelope Penguin: Thank you for that,i'll have a look through and jott some ideas down.

Thanks