Hello Bob...again the OP could have provided us with that knowledge as to the LOCATION of the meter. I am in Canada and we have our water meter located inside the home .....so 'Where you live" is a large thing that a lot of posters forget to explain..."Where you live" is not the normalicy for everyone... I at least took the time to give variable situations as to where the water meter could be located...not just "where I live"... regards... Jim
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A few more details might be helpful
number of people in household landscape watering? year 'round? seasonal? actual usage history for the last year?
a 93 day billing period?
177 gallons per day is easy to use depending on life style & number of occupantsOf course all 177 gpd is not "leakage" but even if it was ALL leakage that's only 1/8 of a gallon per minute, A leaky toilet flapper / pig nose could easily waste a large fraction of that amount.
If you have an outside leak, depending on soil & weather conditions....you might never see the leak or you could get a soggy spot.
cheers Bob
99.9%, roughly, of unexplained water use is leaking toilets. drop some food colouring in the tank when you leave the house and see if the bowl is coloured when you get back.
Bet that shows you something.
Is ALL your water softened? Around here most toilets use unsoftened water and often the cold water tap in the kitchen is unsoftened - as well as all outside taps. Wouls sure make up the difference in a hurry.
A curbside meter wouldn't last 2 hours here in January - or Feburary, or most of march , a good part of april, and most of December.
Sounds like Texas or Florida or Alabama - or Zambia
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I know what you mean from living in VT just shy of the Ca border. Funny how in March or April when you got a few unusually warm days back to back suddenly the streets would start exploding.
You could use that much, how many gallons does the toilet hold, how many times do you flush it a day, what is shower gpm, how long is your shower, what about washing dishes, laundry. Do you have an old style toilet plunger, they leak when old. Check your meter and see that it doesnt spin when no water is used and figure what you do use first, you will be suprised. I have a old sink that puts out 10gpm, and a shower that does 7-8 gpm and my toilet takes 5 gallons a flush I waste
50 gallons a day 1500 a month just flushing a toilet.
Works fine here. Of course it is down about 2.5 feet below ground. When you live over 100 feet off the road, it makes more sense to make the water line yours instead of the utility's.
Or Seattle.
Especially, Las Vegas!
Hi, Your meter will show a leak however small it may be. Or meter is broke? Even small leak can be detected with an equipment(basically super sensitive microphone).
Hnnn, Car wash on your drive way? It is illegal where I live.
The tree was thirsty and had a water problem, all water addicts will lie, cheat and steal to get their water fix. 8-)
TDD
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Where's that? TWIAVBP.
Move to the NE US- we've got plenty of water in most communities. during drought years there are sometimes restrictions on *when* you can water your lawn, fill your pool, or wash your car. [they lump them all under 'outside use'.]
Still see businesses who have programmed their sprinklers to water every other day, 4-7AM, watering during a downpour.
Jim
snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca wrote the following:
Yes, my softener is the next appliance after the pressure tank for the well. My sillcock line and a filtered line for a kitchen sink drinking water faucet is tapped in between the pressure tank and the softener though, so that water would not be metered by the softener. I realize that some softeners are installed in the cold water inlet of the water heater, so only the hot water is softened, but mine is where the Culligan man installed it.
Our water is so hard we soften it right at the incoming pipe as close to the meter as we could get!. If we didn't soften the cold water every pipe and hose would get clogged tight with deposits in about a year. Our unsoftened water tastes fantastic, just VERY tough on the fixtures. We run the softened water through a filtered dispenser we keep in the fridge and that's what we drink.
Why on earth is it illegal to wash your car in your own driveway? I'm glad I live in the boonies.
177 gal / day is certainly possible, and it may even be normal for a large family. I average about 50-55 gal / day for one person, a bit more in the summer with lawn watering and car washing.
I once had a 3/4" line blow after my meter and in about a day it dumped about 20,000 gal. It gave me a nice green strip of lawn and about $60 extra on that bill. Just a couple months ago a 4" main let go between my house and my neighbors and it created quite a lake before they got that section isolated.
Our water used to be some of the hardest in the country untill they started "artificial recharge" from the Grand River.
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