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Southern Water ...metered bills.
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Shit - I was hoping ours would go down. How many of you in the house ?
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Well there was 4 but we have inherited 2 more for the next 6 months or so it seems but they,ve only been here a couple of weeks so I guess it's going to get worse. Better drink my Scotch neat then to conserve the H2O. Still seems an unfair increase though.
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We have a very small capacity system that can hardly deal with the smallest of nuggets as it is.
Hillian1
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Blimey, mine went down by 25%.
Only 2 of us in the house mind.
Only 2 of us in the house mind.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
Mine went up by fuckloads. I live alone.
Maybe you have a leak somewhere? Very odd.
Albumen
Don't wait for me!
Its been 5 years now. Just got used to it, and I rarely flush!
aliakbanrafsanjali
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We will be slightly better off! 36 quid! 3 people are in our house, but come the summer when I will be tending the garden it will change. As soon as the meter went in we all tried to be more careful, but it is difficult, what do you stop doing?
Very odd, similar situ, but mine has gone down massively since I have gone on a meter, well over 50%.
I saw an earlier thread in this about flushing the toilet as wasting water, this is true. In some literature that the water company sent me they sent me what is called a water hippo, it is supposed to save water when you flush (I think not all the water flushes through using this device, however, you when you flush, you see no difference).
I put it on inside the cistern and it took me less than 30 seconds to install, so simple. I have not the slighest doubt it has saved me quite a bit of dosh (well my bills are so much lower) and if anyone asks their water company to provide them one they may send it for free, as they try to push these things, as they obviously want to save water too.
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Well I'm going have a leak somewhere. Probably in the back garden at those water prices.
Papa Lazarou
Living in a De Zerbi wonderland
We've got 4 of us in the house, with 4 toilets & 3 showers.
Our usage was the equivalent of a 1 bed flat with a garden, so our payments have decreased a lot
Our usage was the equivalent of a 1 bed flat with a garden, so our payments have decreased a lot
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We've got 4 of us in the house, with 4 toilets & 3 showers.
Our usage was the equivalent of a 1 bed flat with a garden, so our payments have decreased a lot
You can have 20 toilets in your house but it doesn't up water consumption does it ?
Prettyboyshaw
Well-known member
Avoid meters until you have to, we opted for one (great advice from some clown) and my monthly bill is now £72! You'd think I live in the Prince Regent!!
Tricky Dicky
New member
As per the other thread this week, I'll be paying £75 less a month on a meter, at least for a while
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
Is this just an estimate though to prepare you that prices will change, like a standard calculation on size of house/no. of people etc.? Once the meter starts properly recording your usage, fingers crossed you won't find it as actually that much.
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Depends if you follow the; if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown let it drown rule...
amexee
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I wish I had volunteered for one years ago. Had one imposed on me last year and saved 25%
Hungry Joe
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Was paying just over £20 pcm before meter. When meter went in they put it up to £35 pcm. I left it for 2 months and then phoned in our reading and we were £75 in credit and they reduced it to £15 pcm. 2 of us in the cottage and we're careful with water usage. It sounds nerdy but things like putting a Save-a-Flush pack in your toilet cistern (available from Southern Water - check their website), not flushing the bog for every number 1, measuring out the water you want to boil in the mug when you want a cuppa etc. really does make a huge difference over time once you're metered. Oh,and the good old "don't leave the tap on when brushing teeth". If you do keep it running, next time put the plug in and you'll be shocked how much water you're wasting.
Bold Seagull
strong and stable with me, or...
During the hose pipe ban and generally during the summer I take my hose pipe off the outside tap, get it up to the bathroom window, and water the garden by syphoning the kids bath water out each evening. Garden seems to love it.
Hungry Joe
SINNEN
Smart. Probably some nice extra 'nutrients' in it.
Lord Bracknell
On fire
As a South East Water customer, can I ask a question?
Our water pipe has to cross three miles of field between the meter and the four houses it serves. We've just had a massive leak repaired and "normal" billing has resumed. In the first 64 days since the leak was fixed, the measured consumption for the four houses has been 223 cu metres. At £1.54 per cubic metre, plus standing charges of £3.50, the total bill has worked out at just over £1.35 per household per day. Or about £495 per year / £124 per quarter / £41 per month - per household.
How do these charges seem to NSC users with experience of water meters?
The four households are: two with two people living in them, one with one person, and one with a family of two adults and two young (primary school age) children.
Our water pipe has to cross three miles of field between the meter and the four houses it serves. We've just had a massive leak repaired and "normal" billing has resumed. In the first 64 days since the leak was fixed, the measured consumption for the four houses has been 223 cu metres. At £1.54 per cubic metre, plus standing charges of £3.50, the total bill has worked out at just over £1.35 per household per day. Or about £495 per year / £124 per quarter / £41 per month - per household.
How do these charges seem to NSC users with experience of water meters?
The four households are: two with two people living in them, one with one person, and one with a family of two adults and two young (primary school age) children.