compulsory water meters

[blazey]

Anyone can save water from their toilet, they showed it on one of those tv programmes. You cut bottles in half and put then into the top of your toilet thing and when you flush it saves water that isn't necessarily needed for the flush.

Thrn again Margeret, if your needing to flush more than once for some reason then I guess this may not be a good idea for you!

[jambutty]

Surely no one was expecting it to be cheaper were they?

The cost per metered litre is bound to be more than the cost calculated for the lowest un-metered user. It’s called a back door increase.

In a one bedroom flat with only a shower instead of a bath and just me, my water usage is going to be about as minimal as you can get. Years on a warship where fresh water is strictly limited teaches the crew to be economical with fresh water. The desalination plant was only for the ship’s boilers back in the fifties and sixties so we took fresh water with us and once it was gone there was no more until we got back to port.

Yet I end up paying £234 with a meter as opposed to the $182 that I paid last year.

I wonder how many people did like I did the first time and put the usage related to their DAILY use and not WEEKLY use. Anyone who appears to pay less do it again and make sure that your figures are WEEKLY figures. I know it says ‘per week’ but it can be missed.

I don’t know how many customers United Utility has but based on my increase UU would get a minimum of an extra £52m pa for every one million customers if they were all on meters. I suspect that for the average family the increase would be over £100 pa and UU maybe has 5 million customers. That works out at an extra half a billion. That’s 25% for the fat cat bosses, 50% for the shareholders and 25% for the FREE meters.

You used to be able to buy heavy plastic ‘bags’ that you filled with water and placed in the cistern away from the moving parts. This in effect reduced the capacity of the cistern and thus less water was used per flush. Any plastic bag will do though or even a plastic bottle. In fact you can use anything that reduces the capacity of the cistern.

[panther]

Originally Posted by jackyalex

My bill is £330 per year, thats for a family of 5 living in a 3 bed house, its the set price for us and its not based on how much we use, my friend who lives down the road lives in a bigger house but its a 2 bed and there is only 3 of them and she pays £178 per year, for 2 extra kids im paying almost half more than her. im not sure how they work it out but thats what we have to pay

I have a 3 bedroom house and a family of four.....

[Nickelson]

just use a brick its easy enougth.

[accyman]

gas , water and electricity should be put back into the govenments hands , these people are simply taking the pi**

if the govenment/council can compulsary purchase somones home at less than its real value im sure the same can be done with gas companies etc

i didnt realise my new home had a water meter until a few months after i moved in and im sure they will try to give me an estimated bill to which i will reply that i estimate i owe them sod all


those on meters can drop a house brick into the cistern tank and it will flush just as well using less water or adjust the float but if your not technicaly minded a brick is just as good , just dont go round telling people you dropped a brick in the loo it sounds wrong lol

[harwood red]

I don't think the u switch website is switched on very well with comparing water rates v water meters (great at other stuff though). I have had many elderly residents living alone converted to water meters and all but one have saved money...and the one that didn't was a keen gardener with lots of hanging baskets to water

But for a family water meters are a real no no...it can almost become your biggest utility bill

[Lilly]

We are on a water meter and pay £30 a month for a family of four in a 3 bedroomed house.

I have heard that if there are more bedrooms in the house than there are people living there then a water meter will work out cheaper for them than having no meter.

My uncle lived alone in a 4 bedroomed house and requested a water meter to be fitted and it was a lot cheaper for him.

I don't find it cheaper for us though.

[jackyalex]

Originally Posted by panther

I have a 3 bedroom house and a family of four.....

oooh you need to keep quiet, they might have forgotten to put up your bill