Hello all, I'm looking for any feedback from forum users who use a water meter My circumstances have changed recently, to cut a story short, I'm living in a 3 bed house, that's billed £65.70 per month for water, im looking at the option of a water meter, where I will be billed £25 per month, which 'aparantly' should cover my useage, from what I've read, from the date of the meter being fitted I have 2 years to opt to go back to meterless payment, after the two years it's basically with the property, whatever Just looking for any feedback really Steve
I'm in n Ireland and our water is payed for in our rates, the political twats want to start charging for water ie issuing bills , in other words charging twice. Feckers ! Things are bad when you hand contrôlée of a basic life necessity to private industry.
That's a fortune. £30 a month for us in a 4 bed detached where the bloody taps never seem to be off. Interestingly we had a minor under floor leak in the kitchen and Yorkshire water sent us a letter saying they had detected a constant use issue via the wifi meter that we have installed. Didn't charge us for the extra water used.
we pay £53.20 a month but that's over a 10 month period and that's in a terrace with 3 bedrooms did a short stint fitting water meters many moons ago and it was said if you had a family don't fit a meter as the costs would rocket but was a good deal if you lived on your own but that was ......damn 17 years ago lol
Without a meter, your bill is based on the rateable value of the property. With a meter, you pay a standing charge for drainage, sewerage etc, and a metered charge for the water you use. If you live on your own or with one other person, it's almost always cheaper to have a meter. If you are a large family, especially with young children it can be cheaper to remain without a meter. I have a meter and pay about £150 pa for a three-bed in the east midlands.
I changed a few years ago, my charge then was £67 a month after the change it was £17-50 it is now £22 the increase is due to the standing charge going up. There are two of us and I use the hose pipe in the summer and a preasure washer to clean the van most weekends. Steve
I have had metered water for many years with varying fanily size. It's always been my snallest household utilty bill and it's insane that the old non-metered system still exists. I think I pay arount £2 per cubic metre for supply and disposal but that can vary a fair bit around the country. A cubic metre is a lot of water! Compare to cost of bottled water...
things can sometimes be worse when run by the state though... Decades of neglect led to this Northern Ireland water crisis | Ruth Collins | Opinion | The Guardian
I'm single and live in a 3 bedroomed house. On average my 3 monthly metered water bill is £26. I'll never go back to rateable value. Andy
you on tank water? Used to have water rates in Auckland, imagine they still do but I was on tank for the last 10 years out there. Had to get the tanker round a few summers, that wasnt cheap! Didn't have a very big roof though.
Nah mate, town supply, no separate charge for water, use as much as you like anytime you want, mind you we've got that much of the stuff it's fecking constantly falling outta the damn sky.
The winter in question was 2010 and locally we plummeted to between -18 to-20. As a plumber I can't remember it ever being worse. If you want to talk about water problems look at the private companies in englandshire with summer long hosepipe bans floods etc. the point is you payed for your water before and then they introduced water charges for a product you were already paying for. I still say private industry should not be in control of such a vital service. The years of neglect in the water infrastructure in ni was mostly due to everything being aimed at stemming terrorism.
We don't have a water meter - because I don't want one ( the way Mrs AL goes through it I would need to be a miwwionaire)...they tried several time to enforce one, so when I asked for a copy of the drought order legislation, they backed off.
