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To ask how much is your water bill? If you are on a meter

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Florence4170 · 04/09/2025 16:24

Just that! - how much is your monthly bill please?

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lydialucy · 07/09/2025 08:41

£35 recently up from £20. South east water
I live alone and am careful with usage and the bill tells me I use about a third less than other similar households. But they have hiked their prices massively.

OhNoNotSusan · 07/09/2025 08:27

you can get a reduction if you are on a low income

GloryFades · 06/09/2025 11:10

£61, two adults and a dog, and 90% of garden watering done from water butts.

For the last two years it’s gone up £10 a month despite my usage staying broadly the same.

Yorkshire Water.

CrystalSingerFan · 06/09/2025 11:08

ladygindiva · 06/09/2025 09:16

Not far from Perranporth, North coast

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How lovely! I adore Cornwall, but it's just that bit further from friends and family. Enjoy the peace now the tourists are leaving.

ladygindiva · 06/09/2025 09:16

CrystalSingerFan · 05/09/2025 22:04

Thanks!

I could NOT believe it when I moved in. (Sidmouth's lovely, BTW.) Where are you, @ladygindiva ?

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Not far from Perranporth, North coast

Rainbows41 · 05/09/2025 22:43

BurntBroccoli · 05/09/2025 07:58

Try turning it off overnight and take a video of the meter (as a time stamp) and a couple of photos. Then turn the water back on in the morning and again another video and photos.
The meter moves really slowly when you have a drip type leak (my ball valve in the loft had gone on my heating expansion tank and water was dripping out of a pipe in the eaves). Invisible in the winter but noticed during the dry summer!).

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Thank you for that. Funnily enough there is a mouldy cupboard right next to the eaves, which builders are currently investigating. They've been looking at the windows and roof thinking there are either guttering problems or tiling issues.
I will put it to them about checking the pipes, and I will also turn off the water tomorrow over night.
Thank you.

Praying4Peace · 05/09/2025 22:13

£46 PCM Live alone but have lots of family visits.
Metered southern water

CrystalSingerFan · 05/09/2025 22:04

ladygindiva · 05/09/2025 21:59

Yup, I'm in a Cornish holiday spot so that sounds right

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Thanks!

I could NOT believe it when I moved in. (Sidmouth's lovely, BTW.) Where are you, @ladygindiva ?

ladygindiva · 05/09/2025 21:59

CrystalSingerFan · 05/09/2025 16:46

£25 per month. Topsham. South West Water, meter. Single woman, no dishwasher, yes washing machine, have NEVER washed my car. Tiny unwatered garden.

I previously rented an unmetered 2 bedroom flat in Sidmouth, SWW bill for the year approximately £900. Apparently the locals are shafted for the tourist usage.

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Yup, I'm in a Cornish holiday spot so that sounds right

BasilParsley · 05/09/2025 17:52

£33.36 per month (includes separate sewerage charge) regardless of how much water I use (there is just me here).

I am on an assessed charge because I live in the bottom half of an old detached Edwardian villa. When the conversion into two dwellings was done in the 1950s, they cobbled the pipework so upstairs and downstairs can't be properly separated at the one inlet pipe at the boundary.

I feel extremely fortunate and quite often use the hosepipe in a very profligate manner (no bans here on the south coast) simply because it won't cost me anymore...

xSideshowAuntSallyXx · 05/09/2025 17:34

£53 I'm paying it over 10 months this year and was only paying £18 last year.

Currently use an average of £43 a month which i think is high but then I have long showers and a couple of loads of washing most days (smelly gym kit can't sit in the basket).

They reckon i should be paying £83 though!

Happyher · 05/09/2025 17:24

I’m with Yorkshire Water. Mine is going up from £40 to £61 next month. Just me and adult son in the house

ScholesPanda · 05/09/2025 17:22

£56, and has recently increased by about a third.

MustTryHarderAndHarder · 05/09/2025 17:19

ohheckwhatnow · 05/09/2025 14:29

£135 per month metered Yorkshire water 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

2 adults 2 teens. I have appealed, checked for leaks etc but not budging.

Our direct debit was set too low last year so paying back that plus this year usage.

OMG

Wildywondrous · 05/09/2025 16:51

£41, 3 adults and 2 kids so lots of showers and laundry plus I wfh as a dog groomer so I use a lot bathing dogs.

CrystalSingerFan · 05/09/2025 16:46

ladygindiva · 05/09/2025 14:09

£76 a month because south west water are a bunch of cxxts

£25 per month. Topsham. South West Water, meter. Single woman, no dishwasher, yes washing machine, have NEVER washed my car. Tiny unwatered garden.

I previously rented an unmetered 2 bedroom flat in Sidmouth, SWW bill for the year approximately £900. Apparently the locals are shafted for the tourist usage.

Calamitousness · 05/09/2025 15:12

🤣 @Beachtastic no. Not in this case. Much like others. Two teens. One baths daily. One having daily long showers that I have now asked him to curtail. I’m happy they wash well every day but I think the youngest could still have a very good shower that didn’t take 45mins. We do have to water a lot of plants and our garden daily from May to August so that might be another reason. Hey ho. I really hope to see it get better one day.

Cosyblankets · 05/09/2025 14:43

Florence4170 · 04/09/2025 19:01

None of those things. The property has been empty and they are charging about the same as I pay. They are also saying that they have reduced my bill as I am in credit.i have repeatedly explained that the property has been sold and as it has been empty it is using no water.
So yes it is actually very helpful to know what people are paying.
Just as a matter of interest they messaged yesterday to say that they have closed my home account.

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If it's empty you can have it switched off.
I did this

booohoooloo · 05/09/2025 14:31

£72 a month, 2 adults 3 teen DC. Thames water

we have the dishwasher on twice a day and I like a deep bath

ohheckwhatnow · 05/09/2025 14:29

£135 per month metered Yorkshire water 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

2 adults 2 teens. I have appealed, checked for leaks etc but not budging.

Our direct debit was set too low last year so paying back that plus this year usage.

xoxogosssipgirl · 05/09/2025 14:27

£109.92

2 adults, 1 teen and 1 baby

Mine is so expensive compared to others! I do have a massive bath though that I’m partial to most days.

Allseeingallknowing · 05/09/2025 14:26

MustTryHarderAndHarder · 04/09/2025 22:50

Thanks water 2 people £40 per month

Same. No long showers, full loads of washing only, large water butt for watering garden.

Allseeingallknowing · 05/09/2025 14:25

Thissickbeat · 05/09/2025 09:14

£100.
3 of us. One teen with SEN who has long showers, creates lots of kitchen mess for the dishwasher and changes clothes a lot. Lots of gym kit needing constant washing too.

Stop the long showers!

Allseeingallknowing · 05/09/2025 14:24

BurntBroccoli · 05/09/2025 13:56

Dishwashers use less than washing by hand.
Teens do seem to use a lot of water at least girls do in my experience!

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If you wash up by hand under a running tap, yes, but if you use a bowl of hot soapy water and rinse quickly - no.

GRex · 05/09/2025 14:18

I just challenged Thames Water on the increase given we would build up a huge credit with the increase, and they refused to alter the DD, I've had to move to full bill payment instead.

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