Forced to have a water meter

Bluefairie56

I am with Severn Trent and twice refused to have a water meter fitted although it was not going to be actually metered. They came back while I was away and installed it anyway. Now they are telling me this is a ‘water stressed environment’ and have said it’s mandatory for me to be metered. I know I don’t use much so it’s not that it’s just that I am selling my house and as a family house a house without a meter would be better. Can a water company just tell me I have to have one

MattMattMattUK

Bluefairie56 said:

I am with Severn Trent and twice refused to have a water meter fitted although it was not going to be actually metered. They came back while I was away and installed it anyway. Now they are telling me this is a ‘water stressed environment’ and have said it’s mandatory for me to be metered. I know I don’t use much so it’s not that it’s just that I am selling my house and as a family house a house without a meter would be better. Can a water company just tell me I have to have one

Yes, they can. Unmetered charges are considerably more expensive for all but the most excessive water users, even for large families. No one sane is going to let a water meter influence their choice of home. 

Keep_pedalling

The fact that you are being force to have one means all the other houses in your area will be as well so it does not put you at a disadvantage against other properties for sale.

freesha

Yes. As they should. You pay for gas and leccy as you go, so why not water?

hareng

freesha said:

Yes. As they should. You pay for gas and leccy as you go, so why not water?

They are 'Paying', more than you by sounds of it, in fact about 5 times that of a smarty meter having been there done it.

dunstonh

 I know I don’t use much so it’s not that it’s just that I am selling my house and as a family house a house without a meter would be better. 

Perhaps you should have been on a water meter a long time ago then.

it’s just that I am selling my house and as a family house a house without a meter would be better. 

how do you know it will be better?

freesha

hareng said:

freesha said:

Yes. As they should. You pay for gas and leccy as you go, so why not water?

They are 'Paying', more than you by sounds of it, in fact about 5 times that of a smarty meter having been there done it.

You know nothing of what I pay for anything. What a strange response.

littlemoney

When an unmetered house is sold, the new owner will automatically have a meter fitted.

Sterlingtimes

The Severn Trent smart meters are there for near-real-time leak detection, more than for measurement. Severn Trent has an interest in avoiding OFWAT fines for leakage. This is why a consumer does not have the right of refusal.