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Original poster

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

183 replies

Florence4170 · 04/09/2025 16:24

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

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Sally2791 · 04/09/2025 21:19

£60 ish/month, between 2-6 people here

user12345678901234 · 04/09/2025 21:17

CagerUmbonate · 04/09/2025 17:41

£38 per month, family of 5 with four bathrooms.

What???
how?
where????

HurdyGurdy19 · 04/09/2025 21:15

£48 per month

Three adults. Daily showers. Dishwasher on daily. Washing machine on three times a week.

TattiePants · 04/09/2025 21:09

£60 per month for 3 adults and one child.

alphabetti · 04/09/2025 21:09

3 bed house in North East. Mainly myself and 4yr old although my 19yr old away at uni pops back regularly. Meter already fitted when
bought the house and paying £49 per month over 12mth. Standard billing used to be cheaper for us. Could leon save by doing less washing but like to keep on top of it.

2dogsandabudgie · 04/09/2025 20:59

Ours has gone up from £60 a month to £85 a month. 3 adults, South East water, that includes waste water. On a meter. Can't believe how low some of these bills are.

Edited to add South East water put their charges up by 20% in April of this year.

buffyfaithfredwesley · 04/09/2025 20:58

Single and about £31

Smithson85 · 04/09/2025 20:57

We also think ours is wrong as its only £17 - but we've been here 5 years and they come out to read the meter every year so 🤷‍♀️ South Staffs - 3 bed, 2 adults 1 child.

SENlife · 04/09/2025 20:49

£18 - 2ad 4 ch
Not sure how it's so cheap. We thought we were linked wrong but we checked and it's correct

whirlyhead · 04/09/2025 20:45

2 adults, big garden though I only water the younger plants and a pool. About £30 a month.

itsanothernamechangeone · 04/09/2025 20:10

£59 per month, family of 5. Was £35 until this month!

WestwardHo1 · 04/09/2025 19:09

£35. Just me in a 2 bedroom house. My bill tells me I use less than average. Metered.

SW Water though, so expensive. We have to pay for tourists' turds.

Seawolves · 04/09/2025 19:09

£36, 1 adult and 1 child, metered but very heavy water user, 2 baths a day some days and 1-2 loads of washing (disabled child, baths used as part of pain management, lots of reflux, incontinent).

TheDayWeGotMinnie · 04/09/2025 19:07

Generaltwat · 04/09/2025 16:44

£58 per month. Yorkshire Water

3 adults - daily showers, lots of laundry, rarely wash the cars.. sometimes water the garden( we currently are on a hosepipe ban)

It's WAY cheaper than what the water 'rates' would be if we weren't on a meter.

That's interesting. Mine almost doubled to £55 with Yorkshire water a few months ago. I'm a single mum out at work all day and my two kids are with me 50% of the time. Nothing has changed in five years and yet boom. Double 🤷🏻‍♀️

Walker1178 · 04/09/2025 19:04

South East Water - 2 adults in a 2 bed house. Our average monthly usage according to the meter is £26.72. We use it to wash, cook and clean but as it’s a really chalky area buy bottled water for drinking

Original poster
Florence4170 · 04/09/2025 19:03

Thanks very much, all, very helpful 😁

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Londonrach1 · 04/09/2025 19:03

260 a month and not a metre....I need to talk to my water company...

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Florence4170 · 04/09/2025 19:01

MNQueenofAllSheSurveys · 04/09/2025 18:22

Knowing what random strangers pay won't help with your dispute, do you think your volume used or your rate is too high or even both?

Have you taken daily readings to see what the meter is saying you've used and compared it to your previous bills? Do you think you maybe have a leak?

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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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tomorrowchild · 04/09/2025 19:00

£99 a month metered,3 adults, 2 bedroom house.
South west water

Belladog1 · 04/09/2025 18:48

£35 a month. I live alone.

I am slightly in arrears as one of my toilets got jammed in flush mode for over a day before I realised. Why the cistern didn't empty i dont know, but it was cascading water into the bowl.

aspidernamedfluffy · 04/09/2025 18:46

2 of us, no dishwasher, a quick shower (it turns itself off after 6 minutes) each every day, and our bill has just gone up from £22 pm to £25 pm. We're with Wessex.

Mimilamore · 04/09/2025 18:43

So many variations… I agree that the numbers just seem to be made up as they go along…

Mimilamore · 04/09/2025 18:41

£60, they wanted £77.00 but I argued… 2 old codgers!

tapdancingmum · 04/09/2025 18:38

I've just asked my company to put me on an assessed charge as they can't fit a water meter so ours is based on the rateable value of the house. It was just over £600 last year and this year it's £850. We have 3 bedrooms and 3 people (one of which is not here at the weekends) so I hope it will come down a bit

TotHappy · 04/09/2025 18:35

£117 per month, 2 adults & 3 kids, no working shower so all baths. South West Water. Cowboys.

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