Can I fit my own water meter and be billed on it? I'm fed up waiting for Yorkshire Water to get its act together, and now its holding everything up, as I don't want to install the kitchen units and bury all the pipework and then have to rip it all out again to put the meter in.
Where can I buy an approved meter?
Ta
-- JGH
I don't think you'll be able to fit your own meter. How would the water co. know it was calibrated of measuring in accordance with accurate usage.
I can't see why you should have to rip out the pipework or units etc. They just dig out the stop-c*ck in the street and whack a meter in there not in your premesis. (Normally)
Pete
No, the water co will insist on fitting there own. Just let them worry about where it will go; the fact that a kitchen has only just been installed is no different to one that's been there for years, in that in neither case will they any expectation of demolishing half a kitchen to fit a meter.
David
^^^^^ Bloody hell, I didn't really righ^H^H^H^H write that did I??
David
On Sep 29, 4:24=A0pm, "
They used to. Yorkshire Water's latest penny-pinching scam (penny- pinching in that it keeps their profits high, not the bills low) is to put the meter inside the house saving the effort of digging a hole in the drive. This replace the previous scam of making good the hole in the drive with concrete that contains no hardcore and precious little cement.
You might think that having ease of access to an outside meter would benefit them too as well as reducing the number of dubious scrotes with a clipboard you have to have in your house, but clearly there's more mileage for them in having you provide a "customer reading" which they then ignore in favour of their over wildly over-egged estimate.
Not that previous experience of Yorkshire Water has made me cynical, you understand.
They're, they're, never mind.
I did, probably 15 years ago. Severn Trent sent it to me in the post and then inspected the installation when I'd done it. When I moved 11 years ago they sent a plumber round to do it. The current one has a sensor on it so that it can be read from outside.
I'm surprised you're having to wait for YW - they offered us a date three weeks from the application and came to within five minutes (early) of the appointment time. Ask them for an appointment.
You might well be able to fit your own meter but YW wouldn't accept the readings so it's no worth it.
They usually fit it as close to - and past - the rising main, where your individual stop-c*ck is but the fitter asked us if it would be convenient where he suggested putting it. They want to use exposed piping, not hidden. But since you've applied for one you have the option of refusing it if you want to change your mind for any reason - before it's installed.
Our fitter was quick, efficient and polite and didn't mind having blood dripping on his head from the game which was hanging over where he worked.
I have absolutely no problems with or complaints about Yorkshire Water - except that when the new company bought all the shares back (giving us a very good payment) there was no option to have shares in the new company - Saltaire Water. We wanted to continue as shareholders because it's such a good company with an excellent environmental record. The service has been far better since privatisation.
Mary
In article , mike scribeth thus
Round these parts Cambridge water have a remote terminal that they can read with a hand held reader so no need to access the property .. and yes the unit is indoors with a very small cable to the outside point and we do save money on water:))..
Just don't ask them to fit it over their.
Just don't ask them to fit it over their.
Over wear?
I can just see it.
"You should have seen the last job I did, there were dead things hanging all over the place dripping blood, I didn't dare say a word and just got out of there as soon as I could"
Andy
What he actually said was very similar: "Doesn't bother me, my last job was in an abattoir."
Mary
One that's approved by whatever water supply approval body approved water meters...?
If they put a meter in the street it will be //before// the pipework splitting into the flat and the shop.
I've already got a single building meter, I need a seperate meter for the flat and the shop so's they can have their own bills. I've managed to get YW to cancel the =A33700 invoice they sent me for digging up the road and installing new supplies.
-- JGH
It's three weeks since I spoke to them. They said their surveyor had my mobile phone number and he'd phone me to make an appointment.
Still waiting...
-- JGH
Speak to them again and insist.
Mary
Why were they unconscious?
Hoch "the noo".
Take your monopoly seriously then ?
Except when they ran out of water and were forced by the gubbermint to have it brought in by truck.
That didn't do much for the environment or the shareholders profits.
Derek
Thus spake mike ( snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com) unto the assembled multitudes:
FWIW, I had a meter installed (for free) two years ago (by South East Water) and they replaced my stopcock on my boundary with the meter and new stopcock. I put in the request in July 2006 and it was done in the September.
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