How much water do you use

strawbeery90

I'm lucky I aint paying for thr water bill. 

lyle1993

matelodave said:

what sort of shower and how long do you stand in it,

A deluge shower can dump 12-15 litres a minute and if you stand there for five minutes that's 60-75 litres a go. Multiply  that by three or four times a day and that could account for 300 litres or more. Running off lots of cold water until the hot tap runs hot, wastes all the water that you run away plus leaving all that lovely expensive hot water sitting in the pipework to get cold. Don't run water down the sink to wash or wash dishes, use a bowl or a dishwasher and save your washing up and do it once a day

We have an Eco shower head which delivers around 6lpm and I can have a pretty thorough shower, hair wash  I'm not bald) in around two minutes = 12litres. SWMBO takes a bit longer as she's got more hair but still gets in done in around 3 minutes.

Try checking your flow rate (time how long it takes to fill a 10 litre bucket), fit a flow restrictor if it takes less than a minute to fill, and limit your time to a max of 3-4 minutes.

Thanks. We have a waterfall one and I did a flow rate test and it’s 9.6L a minute. I’m asleep when other half showers in a morning and out when she does in an evening but that’s got to be what it is, if the meter is accurate which I reluctantly think it is, as none of our other appliances could be contributing to p*****g away that much water surely!

QrizB

Our Aqualisa Quartz pumped shower puts out about 10 litres a minute. I'm sure it's the biggest contribution to our water use.

Although, every 0.5 litre pot of tea also results in a toilet flush and that must add up through the day!

dunstonh

We use around 679 litres a day on average.  Its been as high as 1276 litres a day over 6 month periods but that only tends to happen in drought years.  

Luckily, we only pay for water in, not water out.  So, it works out about £52pm

lyle1993

dunstonh said:

We use around 679 litres a day on average.  Its been as high as 1276 litres a day over 6 month periods but that only tends to happen in drought years.  

Luckily, we only pay for water in, not water out.  So, it works out about £52pm

How many in household?

dunstonh

lyle1993 said:

dunstonh said:

We use around 679 litres a day on average.  Its been as high as 1276 litres a day over 6 month periods but that only tends to happen in drought years.  

Luckily, we only pay for water in, not water out.  So, it works out about £52pm

How many in household?

two adults plus a third for half a week.

QrizB

dunstonh said:

lyle1993 said:

dunstonh said:

We use around 679 litres a day on average.  Its been as high as 1276 litres a day over 6 month periods but that only tends to happen in drought years.  

Luckily, we only pay for water in, not water out.  So, it works out about £52pm

How many in household?

two adults plus a third for half a week.

Note that dunstonh does have what's essentially a smallholding, with land and livestock.

They're not a typical 2-3 adult household.

singhini

strawbeery90 said:

I'm lucky I aint paying for thr water bill. 

You wanna start an ice cube making business in this weather :

quartzz

QrizB said:

dunstonh said:

lyle1993 said:

dunstonh said:

We use around 679 litres a day on average.  Its been as high as 1276 litres a day over 6 month periods but that only tends to happen in drought years.  

Luckily, we only pay for water in, not water out.  So, it works out about £52pm

How many in household?

two adults plus a third for half a week.

Note that dunstonh does have what's essentially a smallholding, with land and livestock.

They're not a typical 2-3 adult household.

After all this time, do I now know the purpose of a septic tank? (or spraying it over the local landscape, etc)

1stTimer

Currently having a nightmare with Thames water and trying to get someone out to my place, I live alone one shower a day, wash up once every 2 days. No dishwasher, gardening, car wash etc. flush every other toilet unless it’s the number 2.
my meter has been showing for a year now I average 859.1 litres a day.
I really think this is excessive but their chat bots just keep sending me in circles and when I did have an engineer out last month to do a reading I was at work so didn’t catch him 😣
they keep telling me about their bill increases and they don’t seem to understand it’s not the bill I have an issue with it’s the usage!