Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Is it worth switching to a water meter?
Hi all
I was wondering if anyone here has switched to a water meter and could share their experience.
We're about to move houses and I've just received our first water bill which is about £41 a month. Since there's only two of us in a 3 bed house and we're not the sort of people who water their garden (at least not yet), wash cars or take long baths, I wonder if we could save some money by getting a water meter.
The fact that Thames Water doesn't even present you with this option when sending 'welcome to your new home' pack, makes me even more keen to take the plunge. Any thoughts?
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Now, that is intersting. My annual bill is £409... I have various installments, at about £51, over 8 installments.
The breakdown is:
- £248.85 for water
- £160.25 for wastewater
- £409.10 total
Who else is paying what, and why is there is difference?
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Permalink Reply by Milda Rami on
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Oops. I actually made a mistake as i though the bill covers 6 months when in fact its 7 (just double checked!). So it does come down to just over £33 a month (how very embarrassing!)
Still, according to http://www.ccwater.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.388 We could be saving about £90 (with 20 toilet flushes a day, 2 dishwasher runs a week, 2 washing machine runs a week and a few hours of garden watering a year).
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Permalink Reply by Maddy on
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To be honest, that doesn't sound like such a big saving if after a year you are obliged to stay on the meter. Bear in mind that if you ever have children (I presume you are still young and carefree?) you will use the washing machine and probably the dishwasher a lot more. You don't mention baths/showers either.On the plus side, kids never bother to flush the toilet, so that will save a bit...
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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The other point I would make about meters, is that it seems likely that the rate of price increase will be higher for unmetered than for metered consumers.
Metered users can exert control over what they use for a direct benefit.
As more consumers see the savings of switching to meters - and those consumers tend to be smaller or more efficient users - those consumers remaining on an unmetered supply will increasingly tend to be big water users.
Unmetered consumers are able - for a flat price - to use unlimited amounts of water, not attractive to the supplier, who can respond only by increasing that flat price.
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Permalink Reply by Joseph Boyle on
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I have found it is much cheaper to have a meter. I live alone and my water bill is less than half what it was before. At that time I lived in a flat with a shared mains supply so could not get metered. Now I live in a 3 bed house and it is about half of what I was paying in the flat.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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Our bills have really dropped since installing a meter (two adults in a 3 bed house) ; maybe realising that every time I turn on the tap I'm spending money makes me even more of a miser than usual.
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We decided to go for it!
Thames Water engineer came round yesterday... and discovered we already had a meter! Thames Water and the previous owner conveniently 'forgot' all about it, although he believes it must have been installed in 2012! Whats more, the reading is very very low, considering it must have been there for about a year (?).
I will be requesting a refund from Thames Water because we must have overpaid with the flat rate.
This also made me curious about our actual usage. Fingers crossed it really IS low and we'll be saving a fair amount from now on.
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