Thames water meter saying I’ve refused because I don’t want kitchen cupboards ruined

matelodave

Swipe said:

subjecttocontract said:

Swipe said:

Emmia said:

Creamcarpet said:

Not that it’s anyone’s business, but being as you so interested I pay the bills on my daughters house which she owns without a mortgage- ooh that’s interesting eh?
Those interested in the bill payment and why I deem it will ruin the kitchen, seem to make an awful lot of comments on this forum-go troll someone else if you don’t have the answer to my question.

Edit: As someone with a meter in the street, having it in a cupboard in the kitchen would make reading it more convenient.

And not under a foot of cow manure and rain water that has to be scooped out by hand in my case during wet spells.

I've had my water meter fitted for the past 30 years and the only time I have ever looked at it/read it was the day it was installed. The water company read the meter so there is no reason to shift cow manure or water cos they do that for you. Unless of course.........are you a meter reader. ????

After a mains pipe leak at my previous property, I'd rather not go six months again without any eyes on my meter readings. My bungalow (with a long drive) has the original pipe that was laid in 1970 and not the indestructible blue MDPE mains pipe that is the standard these days. Periodic monthly checks helped me spot another leak a couple of years after my mains pipe was replaced at the old place where the contractor used a badly fitting connector on the meter box tail pipe. I managed to get that one fixed by Severn Trent free of charge. So once bitten, twice shy.

We've had two major leaks in our underground water pipe since 2010 which were detected by me reading the meter myself once a month. The alternative would have been a horrendous water bill and the driveway or house foundations being washed away. The water company did give us a refund/credit on the excess volume of water that we'd lost.

We had a repair the first time paid for by our house insurance but the second time we chose to replace the whole pipe from the meter to the internal stopcock - the insurance co wouldn't pay for that. It was done using a mole device with minimal disruption and cost was around a third of digging up and re-instating the driveway.

However all that said, it wouldn't have been detected if it was an internal meter until either the driveway collapsed or the house started to subside

Swipe

matelodave said:

Swipe said:

subjecttocontract said:

Swipe said:

Emmia said:

Creamcarpet said:

Not that it’s anyone’s business, but being as you so interested I pay the bills on my daughters house which she owns without a mortgage- ooh that’s interesting eh?
Those interested in the bill payment and why I deem it will ruin the kitchen, seem to make an awful lot of comments on this forum-go troll someone else if you don’t have the answer to my question.

Edit: As someone with a meter in the street, having it in a cupboard in the kitchen would make reading it more convenient.

And not under a foot of cow manure and rain water that has to be scooped out by hand in my case during wet spells.

I've had my water meter fitted for the past 30 years and the only time I have ever looked at it/read it was the day it was installed. The water company read the meter so there is no reason to shift cow manure or water cos they do that for you. Unless of course.........are you a meter reader. ????

After a mains pipe leak at my previous property, I'd rather not go six months again without any eyes on my meter readings. My bungalow (with a long drive) has the original pipe that was laid in 1970 and not the indestructible blue MDPE mains pipe that is the standard these days. Periodic monthly checks helped me spot another leak a couple of years after my mains pipe was replaced at the old place where the contractor used a badly fitting connector on the meter box tail pipe. I managed to get that one fixed by Severn Trent free of charge. So once bitten, twice shy.

We've had two major leaks in our underground water pipe since 2010 which were detected by me reading the meter myself once a month. The alternative would have been a horrendous water bill and the driveway or house foundations being washed away. The water company did give us a refund/credit on the excess volume of water that we'd lost.

We had a repair the first time paid for by our house insurance but the second time we chose to replace the whole pipe from the meter to the internal stopcock - the insurance co wouldn't pay for that. It was done using a mole device with minimal disruption and cost was around a third of digging up and re-instating the driveway.

However all that said, it wouldn't have been detected if it was an internal meter until either the driveway collapsed or the house started to subside

Yes, my mains pipe was also laid using the pneumatic mole technique. The hardest part for the contractors was digging under the foundation to get the new pipe into the kitchen.

subjecttocontract

matelodave said:

Swipe said:

subjecttocontract said:

Swipe said:

Emmia said:

Creamcarpet said:

Not that it’s anyone’s business, but being as you so interested I pay the bills on my daughters house which she owns without a mortgage- ooh that’s interesting eh?
Those interested in the bill payment and why I deem it will ruin the kitchen, seem to make an awful lot of comments on this forum-go troll someone else if you don’t have the answer to my question.

Edit: As someone with a meter in the street, having it in a cupboard in the kitchen would make reading it more convenient.

And not under a foot of cow manure and rain water that has to be scooped out by hand in my case during wet spells.

I've had my water meter fitted for the past 30 years and the only time I have ever looked at it/read it was the day it was installed. The water company read the meter so there is no reason to shift cow manure or water cos they do that for you. Unless of course.........are you a meter reader. ????

After a mains pipe leak at my previous property, I'd rather not go six months again without any eyes on my meter readings. My bungalow (with a long drive) has the original pipe that was laid in 1970 and not the indestructible blue MDPE mains pipe that is the standard these days. Periodic monthly checks helped me spot another leak a couple of years after my mains pipe was replaced at the old place where the contractor used a badly fitting connector on the meter box tail pipe. I managed to get that one fixed by Severn Trent free of charge. So once bitten, twice shy.

We've had two major leaks in our underground water pipe since 2010 which were detected by me reading the meter myself once a month. The alternative would have been a horrendous water bill and the driveway or house foundations being washed away. The water company did give us a refund/credit on the excess volume of water that we'd lost.

We had a repair the first time paid for by our house insurance but the second time we chose to replace the whole pipe from the meter to the internal stopcock - the insurance co wouldn't pay for that. It was done using a mole device with minimal disruption and cost was around a third of digging up and re-instating the driveway.

However all that said, it wouldn't have been detected if it was an internal meter until either the driveway collapsed or the house started to subside

Yes , we generally hear from those people who have had a water leak because it's been a major concern/event in their lives but unsurprisingly we almost never hear from the hundreds of thousands of people who have never had a leak, ever.