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Water meters - pros and cons?
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You can revert back to RV charges within 2 years of having a meter; but the meter will be left in situ. However if you rent the new occupant will pay metered charges if the account is put in their name; and from then on RV charges is not an option for anyone - including yourself.
Average consumption is 55 cubic metres per person per year, you can get a good idea from the website if metering is likely to be advantageous.
Some water companies in water sensitive areas can fit meter to aid water conservation - you may be in one of them, you need to check what the terms & conditions are
A longer term update on this....
For a few years I have maintained a gas and electric consumption and cost spreadsheet. I recently updated that to include water costs, just to see how we were doing with the meter.
YW are charging us £27 per month x 12 months, £324 per annum, based upon their calculation that we would use 90CuM of water plus standing charges.
My spreadsheet, logged weekly, suggests we will use around 75.2CuM so our eventual bill will be around £289.00 for the year. So a very worthwhile saving on our unmetered RV based charge of £533 per annum.
We pay £324 ayear (£27 a month) at the moment and we use about 70cu.m a year.
We dont stint on using water but dont waste it either although we do wash our cars and caravan and we've got an automatic watering system which is on from around April to September.
Having a water meter is a no brainer for us. I'd have to use an extra 50-60cu.m a year to justify being on a rateable tariff.
I am paying 40 pounds a week for water and waste. Only a 2 bed 1 bathroom house and only 2 people live here.
I heard that if you have a water meter fitted you can trial it for 6 months - has anyone heard of this?
Thanks
Try plugging some figures into here to get some estimates :
https://www.ccwater.org.uk/watermetercalculator/