19-01-2014, 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Julie1962
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May work well for some but a blanket statement like that could bankrupt some of us. We have washing machine on twice or three times a day, 3 or 4 showers a day, bathing the dogs, washing up 3 times a day. No I think we would be paying more if we had one fitted.
That's what Anglian Water told us but they also gave us estimates of possible savings too.
No harm in asking is there? stevmk2
20-01-2014, 03:56 AM
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Very interesting to hear how you pay for water. In NSW you pay for sewage at the same time to the water board however over the last 30 years a lot has changed.Raw sewage is now treated and no longer just pumped a few Kms off shore as it used to be , in fact locally the steel works buys the tertiary treated effluent for cooling water.
Drinking water has been on a meter for donkey's years but until recently it was less than a dollar a Kilolitre but after the last drought the state government panicked into building a desal plant (which is now turned off and won't be needed for years even if it never rained again) so now our water costs about $2 (£1) a kilolitre. BTW it is also filtered because being as Australia is made of iron ore and people used to complain that after rain when the dams were stirred up the water used to stain their clothes brown so they had to wash it again.
However my combined water and sewage bill is $85 (£43) a quarter but that is including my pensioner discount - if I was paying the full price it would be about $240 (£120) a quarter.
To be honest I don't think that is too bad.
BTW this is the case around Sydney, Wollongong, Blue Mountains area other communities get their water from different sources such as rivers or bores so their charges are different.
20-01-2014, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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I had a bad experience with a water meter in a property we had in Dorset. There was a leak between the meter which was by the gate and the house . This was in 1978 and the bill came to over £1000 which we had to pay. There was no indication of a leak, the first we knew about it was when the bill came in .
22-01-2014, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Meg
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I had a bad experience with a water meter in a property we had in Dorset. There was a leak between the meter which was by the gate and the house . This was in 1978 and the bill came to over £1000 which we had to pay. There was no indication of a leak, the first we knew about it was when the bill came in .
25-01-2014, 06:19 PM
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I've now gone through our Water Bills since 2008 and found that our latest bill claims we've used nearly 30% more water - so I'm querying that with Anglian Water and i want them to check our meter.We are creatures of habit and, year-on-year we've used almost exactly the same amount of water annually for 4 years so I don't understand this 2013 - 2014 'blip' at all.
Yes, we have a garden, which we do care for and grow our own vegetables, but we have four water butts and use that accumulated reserve to water sparingly if necessary when near-drought conditions occur, which can be annually for us here in Milton Keynes and I do mean sparingly as most plants can cope with a damn sight less water than you'd think!
We NEVER, EVER use tap water so I cannot see how our water consumption can possibly have increased by almost 30% in in one year!
It'll be interesting to see the response from Anglian Water - especially since I've informed them I've sent copies of my email to Ofwat and my MP. stevmk2
25-01-2014, 11:09 PM
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Originally Posted by stevmk2
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I've now gone through our Water Bills since 2008 and found that our latest bill claims we've used nearly 30% more water - so I'm querying that with Anglian Water and i want them to check our meter.
I found a leak under the house that way due to a split copper pipe. Worth checking yourself rather than waiting for your water company to do exactly the same thing.
25-01-2014, 11:37 PM
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My bill says it's from 09/08/13 to 14/01/14 that's 5 months (odd number) it's £56 for water and £71 sewerage including standing charges of £18 for water and £23 for sewerage. I have no idea whether that's a lot but seems more than before I had meter! I paid £48 pm approx for both when we were in a larger house without a meter. Anyone good at maths?26-01-2014, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Twizard
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My bill says it's from 09/08/13 to 14/01/14 that's 5 months (odd number) it's £56 for water and £71 sewerage including standing charges of £18 for water and £23 for sewerage. I have no idea whether that's a lot but seems more than before I had meter! I paid £48 pm approx for both when we were in a larger house without a meter. Anyone good at maths?
If it is, and includes Tax, it works out to about £25 per month, which is near enough to what we were on @ £26 per month for the latter half of the year.
On our bill though it showed that we were no longer in Credit so they've increased the monthly DD to £36 from March of this year to claw-back the £60 'arrears'.
That's what I'm asking them about now - why are we now apparently using almost 30% more water than the last 4 years when nothing has actually changed to cause that increased water consumption! stevmk2
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