Left water running for a whole weekend

damianomigani · 22 July 2015 at 3:10PM

i accidentally left the water running for a whole weekend recently (48h friday till sunday afternoon), I wanted to calculate how much it costed me and how much water i've wasted..
so here it is:
i usually pay £7.2 per month in fixed charges and £10 per month in metered water.
this month the consumed water went from £10 to £25, which means that in those 3 days i wasted £15 worth of water.
Sounds like not much but looking at the actual meter i've calculated that usually we use 158 litres per day or 4750 Litres per month (2 people 2 bedroom flat). this month my consumption went to 11250 Litres, which means that in those 2 days I've wasted 6500 litres of water!
THAT'S A LOT! :mad:
btw i'm with thames water in north london.

Cardew · 23 July 2015 at 7:21AM

Lucky it wasn't the hot water tap!

macman · 24 July 2015 at 12:22PM

So that's 6.5 cu m at your cu m rate-not too tricky to calculate.

matelodave · 24 July 2015 at 12:34PM

Don't forget that you'll be charged for the water that went down the drain as well so add the sewerage charge for 6.5cu.m as well.

Azil87 · 22 August 2015 at 4:37PM

You could ask about an allowance. As a rule of thumb they're used for leaks but they are discretionary and in my old role I quite often granted allowances for your circumstances. However they are usually one- off so if you had a large leak at some point further down the line you wouldn't usually be allowed a second allowance.