Water bill

[Giles]

Before I go digging the metre in the road up what’s everyone paying?

Just got our bill for the year and they want £1500 for 267,000 litres of water!

Seems really high

Average for 5 person house apparently is 170k l which still seems high

2 adults, 1 17 yr old boy (50% of the time, not sure he showers that often)

Babies share 1 shallow bath a day

Dish washer and washing machine on once a day

No pond or pools or garden watering no jet washing

Slightly higher use as mixing but not 100000 litres

Going to check metre and turn stop taps see if we’ve a leak or faulty meter

Did replace the lead with mdpe when we moved in to meter no leaks then.

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Before I go digging the metre in the road up what’s everyone paying?

Just got our bill for the year and they want £1500 for 267,000 litres of water!

Seems really high

Average for 5 person house apparently is 170k l which still seems high

2 adults, 1 17 yr old boy (50% of the time, not sure he showers that often)

Babies share 1 shallow bath a day

Dish washer and washing machine on once a day

No pond or pools or garden watering no jet washing

Slightly higher use as mixing but not 100000 litres

Going to check metre and turn stop taps see if we’ve a leak or faulty meter

Did replace the lead with mdpe when we moved in to meter no leaks then.

Do a meter test before you panic. Then go round the house and check usual culprits. WCs (paper-towel laid in back of pan to see if gently overflowing) Loft tanks - see if overflow going somewhere - Mains hot water cylinders - check tundish not running - dripping taps.... etc etc

130 litres per day per person x 5 x 365 = 237 cube.
Your use seems excessive given a couple of very young ones...

 

[Steve]

Do a meter test before you panic. Then go round the house and check usual culprits. WCs (paper-towel laid in back of pan to see if gently overflowing) Loft tanks - see if overflow going somewhere - Mains hot water cylinders - check tundish not running - dripping taps.... etc etc

130 litres per day per person x 5 x 365 = 237 cube.
Your use seems excessive given a couple of very young ones...

I agree with all of the above especially the paper towel in the back of the pan part as an overflowing toilet is hardly noticeable otherwise.

 

[V8Druid]

put a check meter in after theirs - or where it enters the house - cheap enough to buy ..... does sound a hell of a lot of usage

 

[bobthebuilder]

check they have read the meter correct and not billed you for 5 years

 

[DaveDCB]

*edit £1400/yr water and drainage.. washing mc and dishwasher is on 2 times a day 7days a week! And it’s neigh on same amount you use!!
Outside tap is from my yard so different connection

Used to pay about £40 /month when I lived on my own many years ago.. I put it down to women and kids

 

[diggerjones]

I take it, alot of you are on meters? We are not, wife waters garden. Water trough in field etc. But to be fair it's the 1 bill I don't pay

 

[Furniss]

Hellish prices !....we're v lucky that our house was connected to a water association when we bought it, boreholes on hill above village serves a few of the houses at one end, we pay iro 120€ annually for 2 properties
Done an odd day with a mini gratuit.

 

[V8Druid]

spring supply has its pluses and minuses ...
but don't think it costs me anywhere near that -
filters are a couple of quid each and probably do two a month, dependant on the weather ..
UV lamps're 30 odd quid a year
pumps usually last 3-5 years and're 200ish quid, (bought two off ebay recently BNIB, NOS at 60 quid each, so covered for a while ),
pressure switches ditto at 20-30 quid a pop (two in stock bought 'right ')
obviously use leccy to run the pump, but a 20lt pressure vessel limits that on starts which're the juice guzzlers.
testing was 45 quid last year

septic is a 6-8er so gets pumped maybe 2 to 3 yearly at 140 quid notes (only two of us 99% of the time)

I do not miss WW/DC's bills dropping through the door

 

[LKSF]

It's perhaps like a few things (renewable energy etc), invest in an alternative, slowly pay it off and it'll benefit someone else in years to come.
For me the previous owners laid out the cash, put in a borehole and a septic and the results have been interesting, but probably saved us money.
Our bills are an electric pump to draw the water up which aren't much, but it has it's downsides.

 

[Stroppymonkey]

Plenty of my customers , and also the family are on private water. Round here we usually have to deal with the iron sludge / magnanese and also incorporate PH balancing. All costs money to keep it going. Generally private supply only cost effective if you are not in easy reach of water network or using a LOT of water like a farm. However, septic waste is what’s costs us. I had a right shock the first time I moved to a house with mains waste. Basically round here you pay about £2 a cube for water into the house, and about double that to discharge it into sewer. So tripling normal water costs .
In my opinion the most cost effective/ reliable solution for a small domestic property is mains water and to have a legacy treatment plant or boring septic tank rather than a sewer connection

 

[TiltyShaun]

Farmhouse with 4 cows, no the wife daughter and tenant are not included in those numbers!!
So 3 adults, 1 child and 4 four legg cows.
We use on average 450 litres a day, but I do smell. We don’t drink mains water and out bottled water consumption is around 36 litres a week.
Septic tank so no drainage charge. Makes me cringe when the bill arrives!!

 

[V8Druid]

Plenty of my customers , and also the family are on private water. Round here we usually have to deal with the iron sludge / magnanese and also incorporate PH balancing. All costs money to keep it going. Generally private supply only cost effective if you are not in easy reach of water network or using a LOT of water like a farm. However, septic waste is what’s costs us. I had a right shock the first time I moved to a house with mains waste. Basically round here you pay about £2 a cube for water into the house, and about double that to discharge it into sewer. So tripling normal water costs .
In my opinion the most cost effective/ reliable solution for a small domestic property is mains water and to have a legacy treatment plant or boring septic tank rather than a sewer connection

our nearest mains water is circa 3/4 mile away - mains drainage nigh on 2 miles (and that can't cope with what's already on it - constantly blocking/flooding gardens in the village)

 

[Stroppymonkey]

our nearest mains water is circa 3/4 mile away - mains drainage nigh on 2 miles (and that can't cope with what's already on it - constantly blocking/flooding gardens in the village)

My dream location!

 

[V8Druid]

My dream location!

was/is ours too, apart from a pair of a***hole neighbours in close-ish proximity.