water meter

Ours was fitted free by Yorkshire Water. If you want to pay for metered water surely you need to make an agreement with your water company?

Mary

I think he just wanted to evaluate the concept before commiting Mary?

And at ~ 15 for a meter not a bad idea even if they do fit an official one .. ?

T i m

Sorry, I didn't see the first line. Jumping in with both feet again :-)

Mary

Most water companies will fit one free of charge. After a year's "trial" you can then opt to pay your bills as either metered or the old water-rate tariff.

The link to BES that Vortex gave us .. a water meter you could fit to your own i/c supply and could keep a check on what the water board said you were using if the evaluation study showed it was worthwhile going on their meter ;-)

Now keep up or I'll increase your prescription ...

T i m

Sounds like a good idea .. where do the fit them though .. aren't they 'normally' in the road down a 6' hole (not easy to read youself?)

All the best ..

T i m

On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 18:10:54 GMT, T i m strung together this:

New supplies have them under the road generally.

If you order your supply to be 'upgraded' to metered then someone turns up and mangles the pipes under you sink and shoves a meter in somewhere. The one that came in to fit ours removed half the new fittings I'd put in, including the 1 day old full bore lever valve, and handed them to my Mum and said "don't know what these gas fittings are doing here". Bloody clown.

In my case they fitted it indoors, just after the indoor stop-c*ck - a bit awkward as it happens, because I have to move the washing machine out to get to the meter.

I've subsequently been told that they can (again f.o.c.) fit a remote display, say in on a wall in the back garden, so that they don't have to gain entry to the house to read the meter. I've no idea how the remote head works - whether it's by a bit of wire, bluetooth, or what.

Its a wire interface on all the ones around here.

Dave

Thanks for all the replies. I am aware that water companies fit them FOC. but I also believe that if I sold the property the new owner would have no choice but to have metered water even if I decided not to after the free trial.

If, as SJW says, they mess about under the sink I would have a problem with that as my cupboard has the pipework hidden behind it, and you can bet your life that the fitters are not as careful doing their job as we are when we do our DIY.

I have email BES for more info.

thanks again Dave

Oh come on! You don't expect me to follow links do you? That's techie stuff and I'm only a poor little grey haired old lady ...

er - that doesn't explain what " ~ 15 " means ...

I'm on my maximum. Unless you want to get rid of me that is.

But that would mean you'd all have to find someone else to make fun of and IMM has run his course :-)

Mary

See the reply to my post saying the same thing. We're not observant enough, it seems :-(

Mary

No, they're fitted inside the house on the rising main.

Don't you know nowt???

And why didn't you take him to task as you did me???

Eh???????

Come on!

Mary

In our case the rising main is in the pantry. The fitter, a very efficient and pleasant chap, did the job in a matter of minutes. The meter was installed about 4' from the floor, there was no mess, no disruption and it was so quick Spouse didn't have a chance to ask questions. He was a bit miffed but he shouldn't have spent the time ogling the installer's tools :-)

The meter is very easy to see - a flip up lid displays the numbers. We've saved a lot of money on bills as it happens but that's not why we wanted it. We wanted to be more aware of our use of a precious resource and having a meter has shown that we are in fact responsible users.

And before anyone jumps in and says that I'd think differently if we were poor and had lots of children I'll say that we'd do the same if we still had our five children at home and that our income has always been far less than the national average. We haven't stinted on water usage.

We have metered gas and electricity and phone, why not water?

Mary

"Lady !?"

Now come on Mary .. "And at ~ 15 for a meter" .. where "~" means 'around' and this is the usenet so I believe I shouldn't really use the £ symbol (now look what you have made me do) .. and I I don't know what the current exchange rate its between pounds and groats ?

Ermm ... er .. .. no .. wouldn't want that to happen .. ;-(

Good point .. stick with the existing prescription then .. we need to keep you alive and nutty ;-)

Love ..

T i m ;-)

See, .. they are *somtimes* in a hole in the road . And don't forget it's easier for them to dig the roads up daun Sauf cos they aren't cobbled ...

Because ...

Because ...

Erm .. because all the others talk sense *most* of the time ... ?

T i m ;-)

BUT, regardless of what you do after one year, the next occupant of the property is lumbered with metered water.

I used that word to get a response. It always works :-) My pets are hens, by the way, not ducks.

Ah, thanks, I didn't know. It didn't in my day. I'd have used ±

Oh I'm so sorry to have made you think ... but a £ would have helped ...

If you'd used a £ (or $ or ? or whatever) it would also have helped.

A groat was always 4d as I'm sure you know. That means, in Monopoly money, um, about 2p, near enough allowing for inflation.

Of COURSE not.

Oh, I don't take the nutty pills any more. You wouldn't have liked me with those (that's assuming you do now of course). You wouldn't have known me. I was only half awake all day, a walking zombie. Sometimes. Sometimes walking that is. I only take the analgesics and anti malarial quinine now. The quinine also helps to prevent night cramps which happens to old folk. Remember that, you might need it some time.

Mary