Water Meters

South East water meter has saved me lots. currently 2 people usage of 18 cubic metres per 6 months at a cost of £41.60 which includes a standing charge of £14.70. Meter on property edge at pavement.

Are you sure the above consumption is correct? That works out to 50L (ten gal) per person per day averaged over the year. This would be used up undretaking only five toilet flushes per person in a 24 hour period. What about washing clothes, showering, cooking, house cleaning i.e. Per person per day? We have been on water meter for 16 years and have had our water meter changed twice (so meter is proven to be correct) and we average 100L (20 gal) per person per day.

18 cubic metres for 2 people in six months = 18000L x 182 days = 50L (10 gal) per person per day. Example, toilet uses 10L (2 gall) per flush.

The place I looked at said for average users, 2 people use 109 cubic metres per year.  That sounds like a lot?

Low users were said to use 58 cubic metres for 2 people.

The place I looked at said for average users, 2 people use 109 cubic metres per year.  That sounds like a lot?

Low users were said to use 58 cubic metres for 2 people.

My brothers house is round about the same as ours, 100L per person per day. To be exact; 100L \ 4.545 = 22 gallons per person  per day. From my experience, I personally think that if there is only two people living in a house with a meter it is cheaper, anymore than two people then your better off not on meter.

Colin

KjellNN Sir,

I would agree with those figures as for us; two people, we are using an average of 73 cubic metres per year at the rate of 100L per person per day.

My mum, with Altzheimers uses excessive amounts of water and her bills are more with a water meter (my brother, her carer, regrets the change to a meter). I have a daughter who loves the bathroom and also a reverse osmosis water filter, which necessitates some waste. I think having a meter would give me the unwanted pressure of worrying that I needed to cut back and I can do without that, on top of everything else.

With only two of us now living in a fairly large 4 bedroom house, the change to a water meter rather than paying on rateable value, saved us hundreds of £s a year!

TF

With only two of us now living in a fairly large 4 bedroom house, the change to a water meter rather than paying on rateable value, saved us hundreds of £s a year!

TF

....as did ours....

ill try and get some figures later, but spending many weeks away from the house means our bills are really low....

I have just had a look at my paperwork. The last bill we had based on rateable value was dated 31st of March 1999 and came to £417. In 2013, fourteen years later,  our water bill for the year was £288. Our current DD is for £30 a month so we are still paying less than we were before we had the meter installed 16 years ago. We must have made a massive saving over that time.

David

Do the charging structures vary in England between the various water suppliers?

Some of you seem to be paying only for consumption, while others have mentioned a standing charge.

Some sort of fixed amount to cover the cost of meters and reading them seems reasonable, but what Scottish Water want to charge is just excessive.

Does not sem there is much saving at all to be made up here by having a meter.

This is what our lot tell us.....

"In 2016/17, the charges which cover the water supply and waste water collection services to your home (your Combined Services charge), detailed on your Council Tax bill, will be limited to 1.6% higher than the amount you paid last year (2015/16) - just over £5 a year for average household.

The charge for the average household bill in Scotland (around £351) is expected to stay well below the average bill of the private water companies in England and Wales. This will mean that the average household will still pay less than £1 a day for the water services you receive.

The average household is between Council Tax Band B and Band C and has a combined bill of less than £1 a day. Individual water supply and waste water collection charges are less than £1 a day for all households (except for the individual Waste Water Collection charges for Band G households and the individual Water Supply and Waste Water Collection charges for Band H households)."