How much water do you use?
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Average 50-60 litres/day
Single bloke. My sewage charges are 1.5x my water usage.
Last bill was £58 for the quarter.
Bit more detail.
Volume Used Volume Cost per m3 Charge
Water 4m³ 268.82p £10.75
Sewerage - 90 % of water 3.60m³ 234.32p £8.43
Standing charge Period Cost per day Charge
Water 85 days 14.31p £12.16
Sewerage - Foul & Surface 85 days 31.84p £27.07
Single bloke. My sewage charges are 1.5x my water usage.
Last bill was £58 for the quarter.
Bit more detail.
Volume Used Volume Cost per m3 Charge
Water 4m³ 268.82p £10.75
Sewerage - 90 % of water 3.60m³ 234.32p £8.43
Standing charge Period Cost per day Charge
Water 85 days 14.31p £12.16
Sewerage - Foul & Surface 85 days 31.84p £27.07
Edited by 732NM on Sunday 14th December 19:58
I don't have a budget account with Thames water and I take a water meter reading on the 1st of the month and send it to Thames Water who then bill me for the month.
The monthly usage is nearly always 7m3 which is 233L per day and the monthly bill is around £44.00
Joy of joys and Thames Water have recently installed a Smart Water Meter and I just got my first bill with the new meter and the reading was 00003E. Yep it's a smart water meter and I got an estimated bill
The monthly usage is nearly always 7m3 which is 233L per day and the monthly bill is around £44.00
Joy of joys and Thames Water have recently installed a Smart Water Meter and I just got my first bill with the new meter and the reading was 00003E. Yep it's a smart water meter and I got an estimated bill
997.1 said:
Reason I ask is more for leak detection than anything else. I wouldn t say anyone wastes water in our household.
I wonder what the per person usage would have to be before the water company suggested you had a leak
The only way to check for leaks is via the meter. Shut off anything that may use water, take a meter reading, leave everything as is for 2-3 hours (do not use any water, obviously) then go and check the meter again. If it hasn't moved, then you don't have a leak. I wonder what the per person usage would have to be before the water company suggested you had a leak
Some people get their water bills and cannot believe how much water they use when they read the number of litres consumed, but yes, you probably do use that much.
We use s
tloads of water. Showers, kids having baths, washing machine on numerous times per week for clothes, dishwasher on every other night, washing the car, watering the garden in summer... endless. 997.1 said:
Reason I ask is more for leak detection than anything else. I wouldn t say anyone wastes water in our household.
I wonder what the per person usage would have to be before the water company suggested you had a leak
We're with Thames Water. Earlier this year we got our bill and it said our use had increased by 110% (or similar). It was about 3-4 pages into the bill and nothing to particularly draw my eye to it such that first time I missed it altogether.I wonder what the per person usage would have to be before the water company suggested you had a leak
Turned out we had a leak under our garden where the original 1970s plastic pipe had split. Nothing obvious to show and no big flood of water anywhere. The only clue was the bill.
Therefore I'd suggest that they probably won't alert you to the possibility of having a leak.
Side story: I asked on here at the time for suggestions of a local firm to help find the leak.Initial contact with Thames Water seemed hopeful, but they passed us around from pillar to post despite their website saying they would assist in sorting repairs.
Ended up using the firm suggested on here, but that resulted in paying them to tell us the leak was in a vague area and that they'd have to come back another day to repair it. Having already paid £750 for that visit (hoping they would be able to do a fix on the day for £250 as per their adviser when I first rang). Instead they wanted another £1800 to come back a week or two later.
In the end we got a different local firm to look at it and they just replaced the whole pipe from meter to our existing stop cock for £800. If we'd only rung them first we'd have had it fixed for £800 all in rather than waste the extra £750 just to tell us the leak was somewhere under our kitchen window.
I did eventually get Thames Water to honour their 'leak allowance' as their first attempt only covered a few weeks, rather than the period covered by the bill that showed the 110% increase. Went from about £600 in debit to a refund of £40. Great, except that somehow stopped our Direct debit, so I had to set a new one up and they forced a much higher amount than we are using, so that's a battle for another day now I've taken meter readings ever since the repair.
Tl;dr Don't expect any help from the water company, especially if it's Thames Water.
PS. After the leak, we're about 320 litres per day, family of three adults. During the leak period it was over 650 litres a day.
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