Business water quotes

[RicksAlfas]

I've had the usual letter through that my water charges are going up. Has anyone had any success with a water supply broker?
I get loads of emails but would rather go with a recommendation/PH'er.

Randomly I'm in Yorkshire and my invoices come from Scottish Water...!

[Jockman]

Not sure if Mr Overheads bothers with water?

[Ham_and_Jam]

RicksAlfas said:

I've had the usual letter through that my water charges are going up. Has anyone had any success with a water supply broker?
I get loads of emails but would rather go with a recommendation/PH'er.

Randomly I'm in Yorkshire and my invoices come from Scottish Water...!

I just rang my incumbent supplier, Business Stream, and said I was switching. They gave me a 15% discount.

Ironically they cocked it up by not applying it, and so gave me another £100 credit and backdated the discount anyway.

[Mr Overheads]

We look at water occasionally for SME's but the real savings are on the massive supplies where you can look for leaks, ground water soakage, evaporation claims etc.

Al lthe water companies are as st as each other. YOu might save 1 or 2% (noth withstanding £100 credits as above which are good percentage on a small supply) but generally it's not worth the bother.

Do consider if you use water in your process though and hence get a discount on waste water return to sewer. e.g. Got a swimming pool - there's surface evaporation. Got a laundry or a steam train - loads of steam into atmosphere not drain. Make ice cubes or other products containing water, that are shipped out on pallets - not going down the sewer are they.

[Ean218]

Mr Overheads said:

Do consider if you use water in your process though and hence get a discount on waste water return to sewer. e.g. Got a swimming pool - there's surface evaporation. Got a laundry or a steam train - loads of steam into atmosphere not drain. Make ice cubes or other products containing water, that are shipped out on pallets - not going down the sewer are they.

Slightly off topic, but if you have a rain water harvesting system for lavs. etc, how does one account, or not, for the extra water being put back in?

[Freakuk]

I have no idea on this, but I did a contract some time ago for Water Plus.... needless to say they were the most useless company I've ever had the pleasure to work for.

I was working on their billing software which was clunky as anything and they were overcharging x customers and not charging y customers due to issues in the software. I'd highlighted how much they were losing per day through not billing but they didn't seem too interested in addressing this.

[Mr Overheads]

Ean218 said:

Mr Overheads said:

Do consider if you use water in your process though and hence get a discount on waste water return to sewer. e.g. Got a swimming pool - there's surface evaporation. Got a laundry or a steam train - loads of steam into atmosphere not drain. Make ice cubes or other products containing water, that are shipped out on pallets - not going down the sewer are they.

Slightly off topic, but if you have a rain water harvesting system for lavs. etc, how does one account, or not, for the extra water being put back in?

In theory you can get a discount on Surface Water drainage charge if you can put up a convincing case BUT your waste water charge will presumably go up because you are flushing more down the drain and have just given them the figures to prove it.