How Much Are Your Bills?

AnotherJoe

Jox wrote: »

Thanks, Thames Water keep calling me about installing a smart meter but I'm against it...you pay £20 a month, argh that's so cheap! Blooming Thames Water ripping me off!
Perhaps because you arent on a WM???
I barely have time for a shower! Though my husband and 3 year old like having their baths (and not together lol)...

My water bill dropped by 2/3 after installing a WM.

moneyistooshorttomention

bsod wrote: »

you're against saving £300+pa?

you've got months to decide if you want to revert back to non-metered if it's not cheaper

Actually - I'm against smart meters too and take an "Over my dead body" attitude about them.

I don't want the "powers that be" to have an even better handle on being able to monitor just how I "lead my life" exactly. Certainly don't want some faceless "person" somewhere in the country being able to tell exactly when I'm using water/fuel/etc.

Yep...that's the voice of a former "political activist" - and I think I have somewhat of a better idea of just how intrusive something apparently innocent can be at monitoring our ordinary/everyday little lives. So - I'm against it.....

Try being a perfectly ordinary/law-abiding middle of the road activist for a few years - and you'll find it (or your friends will.....).

They'll have to force it on me against my will - before I'll ever have any smart meters here. I'm all too uncomfortably aware just how nosey/intrusive the "powers that be" can be....just because they can....:eek::mad:

It would be nice to have continued living in blissful ignorance about those possibilities.....sighs....and some of us havent had that luxury.

bsod

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Actually - I'm against smart meters too and take an "Over my dead body" attitude about them.

I don't want the "powers that be" to have an even better handle on being able to monitor just how I "lead my life" exactly. Certainly don't want some faceless "person" somewhere in the country being able to tell exactly when I'm using water/fuel/etc.

Yep...that's the voice of a former "political activist" - and I think I have somewhat of a better idea of just how intrusive something apparently innocent can be at monitoring our ordinary/everyday little lives. So - I'm against it.....

They'll have to force it on me against my will - before I'll ever have any smart meters here. I'm all too uncomfortably aware just how nosey/intrusive the "powers that be" can be....just because they can....:eek::mad:

water meters aren't smart, nor is paying over the odds for something

and you're using the internet ...

moneyistooshorttomention

bsod wrote: »

water meters aren't smart, nor is paying over the odds for something

and you're using the internet ...

I know.....:(

But I think one should at least minimise exposure to nosy parkers (official or otherwise).
NB'; I do think Jox might be getting a bit confused between "smart meters" (ie about fuel usage) as compared to water meters.

Personally - I do have a water meter - but wouldnt have a smart meter (ie for fuel).

bsod

if you know, then you know the argument is nonsensical, the discussion is about water.

Someone will come and read the meter every few months and you get billed less money, simple.

AnotherJoe

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Actually - I'm against smart meters too and take an "Over my dead body" attitude about them.

I don't want the "powers that be" to have an even better handle on being able to monitor just how I "lead my life" exactly. Certainly don't want some faceless "person" somewhere in the country being able to tell exactly when I'm using water/fuel/etc.

Yep...that's the voice of a former "political activist" - and I think I have somewhat of a better idea of just how intrusive something apparently innocent can be at monitoring our ordinary/everyday little lives. So - I'm against it.....

Try being a perfectly ordinary/law-abiding middle of the road activist for a few years - and you'll find it (or your friends will.....).

They'll have to force it on me against my will - before I'll ever have any smart meters here. I'm all too uncomfortably aware just how nosey/intrusive the "powers that be" can be....just because they can....:eek::mad:

It would be nice to have continued living in blissful ignorance about those possibilities.....sighs....and some of us havent had that luxury.

Water meters aren't smart and don't do that. All they measure is now much water is used since the last time they were read, generally six month period.

Smart electric meters are a disaster waiting to happen, a ridiculous vanity project implemented by morons which will end In a hugely expensive fiasco.

Water meters have nothing whatsoever to do with those. They have no electronics just a little wheel that moves around and clocks up numbers, like an old fashioned gas meter

Sigh.

samlee0211

4 bed semi

council tax £136
water £36
gas and electric £90
building contents insurance £11
sky £65
tv licence £12
phones £60

jayss

I live in a tiny 1 bed. Council tax is 80, electric 10, water around 50'a quarter and it is metered(I live in a newly converted block).
The council tax does have single person discount.
Internet is 22 a month which is a bit high but it's fibre and so no phoneline.

AlexMac

Grenage wrote: »

...I have since sold up and bought a character property with my girlfriend; I am now much poorer, and short a kidney....

Wow- what a terrible experience; when I moved in with my girlfriend I got much richer; and she didn't make me sell a kidney (which I thought was illegal in the UK- but whatever...). How much did you get for it, or did you gift it to the NHS in lieu of NI contributions?

Norman_Castle

AnotherJoe wrote: »

Water meters aren't smart and don't do that. All they measure is now much water is used since the last time they were read, generally six month period.

https://www.thameswater.co.uk/my-account/water-meters/smart-metering

I expect water company executives are excited about these. I'm not.