Keeping afloat till I can get round to the debts!

NeverendingDMP

joedenise said:

Do you have a water meter @NeverendingDMP?  It may well be cheaper than the standard rate.  Ours increased from £23 to just over £40 a month this year.  It's a ridiculous amount every month and that's with a meter.  I dread to think how much a month it would be without a meter.

That's on a water meter. It's been steady at 65-70 a month with a few pounds increase every so often when bill prices have gone up but this is a big jump of 20 a month for us

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badmemory said:

But haven't they all gone up over 20%.  They were allowed to put them up by a certain percentage over 5 years & many of them put them up by the whole lot immediately.

It went up a bit in April. Is this another increase everyone has got then just because they've been allowed. I hope not. The litres we used had gone up a bit each day which will account for some of the increase but not by the same percentage of the extra bill if know what I mean. I hope this isn't the new normal. It was a proper shocker!

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jwil said:

That's a ridiculous increase!

Yeah it was a oh **** moment when I read it.

slm6002

Have you tested for leaks?  That is a lot to spend on water.  We are around £35 a month for a family of 4

NeverendingDMP

Least I've had a pay rise 😂 to cover it!

NeverendingDMP

slm6002 said:

Have you tested for leaks?  That is a lot to spend on water.  We are around £35 a month for a family of 4

Wow that's a bit difference between us as a five and your four. We've had a leak in the past so I'm gonna watch the meter for a few days and if it looks like way I will literally cry. They came in the house to read the meter were as normally they read it digitally so I'm worried they think the dame. I'm gonna watch it like a hawk and submit my own reading again in a month to see what happens then. 

slm6002

Our toilet cistern had a little leak but was constant trickle a few years back and that made it shoot up.  A new flappy thing inside the cistern soon sorted it out and water company could see it was a leak as such and reduced the monthly amount again 

badmemory

Well I don't know how much they charge hospitals for water but last time I was there the toilet was running a little all the time.  When I told reception someone shot there so fast you would have thought I shouted fire.  I expected a quick thanks & we'll tell maintenance type response.

jwil

We're in an expensive area and were put on £90 pm when we got our meter installed.  I'm hoping it will go down once they start getting some meter readings.  It does seem a huge jump so definitely check for leaks, and otherwise ask them for justification.

NeverendingDMP

Spent the evening trying to get school ready. Now need to get them all asleep. Oh I really don't miss the term time rat race of work, school, homework and house. It all begins again tomorrow...