Two of us and IIRC it's about £40/quarter. [Rummage, rummage, rummage] Ah, here it is, in the filing pile, just paid the quarter from 13/12/16 to
16/3/17 and it was £40.76, i.e., £13.50 pcm. Anglian Water.
Oh, and no sewage charge - we have private drains.
My meter is about a metre underground at the edge of the 60mph road that goes past here. I decided against the concept of lying down in the road, removing the lid and looking down the tube, since most of me would be invisible to traffic from one direction due to a slight bend.
You mean they never do any short and long term maintenance? That was the trouble with the nationalised water we previously had in the UK. Four quid a month, sure, but the replacement of old infrastructure was left to the privatised industry that followed - and who then got the blame for higher prices.
Seems to me a case for checking the meter at 04:00 on 25 December when traffic is very light in most places. Red hi-vis jacket and trousers would add to your safety as well as suit the season :)
I was paying about £60 every 6 months for metered water but now they have gone to quarterly bills which is silly for a low user like me. It's only me and I rarely use a hosepipe, if the grass goes yellow in summer, it always recovers in Autumn.
You could accidentally 'break' it and they would fit a modern RFI enabled meter. Then you only need to work out how to read it remotely.
Andrew
I think, in fact, that they already did that. We went on a meter about
6 years ago, so it started at zero. Then about 1-2 years later they said they'd be putting a new meter in and it went back to zero again.
Indeed, which was part of the reason for the initial question, even though I cannot do much about it. Reassuring to realise that, having read more replies, mine is probably about right for a large-ish house, plus shop and three people including a teenager who runs a shower long enough to fill a small swimming pool. What does he *do* in there? No, I don't want to know ...
We've just been fitted with a RFI meter, from what I can see, you can only read it remotely. No sign of any dials.
IIRC Ofwat require water meters to be readable by consumers. So I mean no insult when I ask if have you checked that there is not a cover over the eye-ball readable display? I met one such where the plastic cover matched the plastic meter housing so from above it was hard to spot the "join" - especially through half a meter of mucky water :)
You're all making me feel good. Latest bill from Severn Trent this morning - £78.54 for 24 weeks, 104 pints a day they helpfully tell me, single occupancy, metered. Last October it was £92.72 for 27 weeks, 121 pints. I used 3 cu metres less this time which I think might be the outcome of being out for 13 hours a day for 20 days over Christmas.
Well, perhaps you should investigate! I'm in Warwickshire - Severn-Trent area. Four-bed detached house - just two of us, but some water used for irrigation and topping up a large pond. Metered supply. My bill is around £350 p.a. If we didn't have a meter, and were charged according to rateable value instead, we'd be paying about £640.
Before I opted for a meter, I bought my own meter and installed it under the kitchen sink on the rising main so that I could check usage and see whether I would be better off. When I subsequently applied for a meter, Severn Trent simply replaced my meter with theirs - which I *can* read. If they'd insisted on installing it outside where I couldn't read it, I'd have left mine in place so that I could check their readings.
Couldn't you do something similar? My metered supply is costing only just over half of what I would be paying, based on rateable value.
Realy? Wow. The first thing I had to do was find mine. It's buried in a hedgerow about 200 yards away.
Not forgetting the painted luminous chevrons on the back of the parked sleigh just before the bend!
Its difficult as there have also been comments from my company about possibly increasing tariffs due to the ag4e of the sewers and the need to repair them.
It all seems a bit of a black art to me. Brian
East Anglia, not metered, different companies for sewage and water, decent-sized detached house. Water bill is paid over 10 months of the year, total of £314 p.a. Sewage bill is per quarter, total of 313 p.a.
So total water and sewerage bill is £630 p.a. approx.
Must be one of the highest mentioned here, if not the highest. Just like the hardness, officially Very Hard Water, so I have to add running a softener to that.
All the answers seem to be for a metered supply, so:
Unmetered, water only (*), United Utils, Cumbria, £320.77/year = £26.73/month.
(*) Waste is via our septic tank.
Meters remote from property and shared supplies do seem to confuse Water board employees.
One came to swap our meter; I watched him wander along the verge, up the drive, around the garden and then he eventually came to the door. I suggested he get back in his van and drive up the road to a particular gateway. He should then walk across the field until he came to a drystone wall and the meter would be just this side of the wall at the LHS of gateway.
He asked where the stop c*ck was.
Told hime that he needed to cross the next field and go across the farmyard, tell the farmer his water would be going off and that he would find it about 20 yds along the farm drive.
He looked at me and said he wouldn't bother - he'd just report that it needed extra pipework that he didn't carry and someone else would come out.
That was about 4 years ago.
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