Page 6 | To ask how much is your water bill? If you are on a meter

Florence4170 · 2025-09-04T15:24:20+00:00

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

CalzoneOnLegs · 04/09/2025 18:33

@FlorenceB19 mine went up from £26 for first 18 months, now it’s £47, huge jump, I think Wessex Water make it up as they go along as nothing has changed here

BurntBroccoli · 04/09/2025 18:31

Symposium · 04/09/2025 17:44

Just gone up to £118 per month, Thames water, metered

Do you have a pool or hot tub! That’s astronomical. How much do they charge per cubic litre?

OhNoNotSusan · 04/09/2025 18:30

also no garden hose

no dishwater either

FlorenceB19 · 04/09/2025 18:28

£71.50 a month with Wessex water. Metered 2 bed house, 2 adults. We only shower daily (no bath, no dish washer & no garden hose!!)
I'm convinced we're over charged!!
I must chase it up... but keep getting side tracked! 🤦🏽‍♀️

RedRiverShore5 · 04/09/2025 18:28

£50 a month, Anglian Water, 2 retired adults, 3 bed house.

BurntBroccoli · 04/09/2025 18:27

£30 - dishwater once every 2 days so full load, daily shower, washing 2-3 full loads eco cycle. Also water the garden with hose in summer. Don’t flush loo after a wee except when have company!
Frugal use!

2 adults

TooManyCupsAndMugs · 04/09/2025 18:24

£70 a month, East of England, metered. Family of 4

Ineffable23 · 04/09/2025 18:24

£20 per month in my own, Eastern England. I think you need to know where people are because water bills vary massively

MNQueenofAllSheSurveys · 04/09/2025 18:22

Florence4170 · 04/09/2025 16:45

That's really helpful, thank you very much.
I am disputing a bill but their offices are currently closed. At 4.45 on a normal working Thursday 🤷‍♀️

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?

InOverMyHead84 · 04/09/2025 18:21

We are at about 120 pounds a month.

3 Adults and 2 Children.

PinkiOcelot · 04/09/2025 18:21

Was always about £66 per month no meter. Got meter installed and it’s around £32-£35 per month now. Wish I’d got one years ago.

3 adults in a house.

OhNoNotSusan · 04/09/2025 18:19

we have an increase due to them polluting the sea with sewage

XenoBitch · 04/09/2025 18:18

£99 for 6 months (so about £16pm). Just me in a 3 bed. Thames Water.

whenimnotcleaningwindows · 04/09/2025 18:18

SunnyD4ys · 04/09/2025 18:15

That's been the advice now for years since water meters first came along I believe but even if it works out more expensive you can switch back within a certain time ( you'll find the details via Google) so no reason not to change unless its physically impossible for your property

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I think I worried that once they can make up a set figure by looking at usage it would gradually creep up. I was happy with the flat level but probably am now paying a lot more than I would be on a meter.
I'd better not start washing my car all of a sudden if I switch! Shame.

CantThinkOfAnotherUsernane · 04/09/2025 18:18

£69 a month. That’s for 4 adults and a child. Daily showers, laundry etc

OhNoNotSusan · 04/09/2025 18:16

the bill seems to be related to april to sept 2024 which is odd.

SunnyD4ys · 04/09/2025 18:15

whenimnotcleaningwindows · 04/09/2025 17:43

This is what I worry about - a lot of these seem high to me but I live alone and everywhere seems to say being on a meter is cheaper for single occupancy homes. Is that anyone here's experience?

That's been the advice now for years since water meters first came along I believe but even if it works out more expensive you can switch back within a certain time ( you'll find the details via Google) so no reason not to change unless its physically impossible for your property

JustPinkFinch · 04/09/2025 18:11

My water company's bills are unfathomable and I have not lived here long, so not sure yet, but higher than I used to pay in my last house unmetered.

They have threatened that if I don't let them in to read the meter, they will revert me to a standard unmetered tariff. So I will never let them in! Crack on pls guys 🙏

MrsHGWells · 04/09/2025 18:10

approx £80 mth dd, 3 adults x 1teen. Garden and careful with water use. Suspect actual usage is closer to £55/ mth. Metered water past 5 yrs and cheaper than flat rate, unless you have an Olympic sized swimming pool in your yard.

OhNoNotSusan · 04/09/2025 18:07

£82
they wanted £89 - it is incoming as well as outgoing water

Verywindyday · 04/09/2025 18:07

We were on the old rates system. This year the DD went up to over £100 pm for 2 of us in a 3 bed house. We switched to meter and were given an estimated DD figure of £50 pm. I have done monthly meter readings and we are currently down at around £35 pm without changing anything we do.
We both shower daily, washing done 3/4 per week. Wash up by hand as no room for dish washer. Never water the garden and rarely wash the cars…

goingtotown · 04/09/2025 18:05

2 adults was £35 now £58 Thames Water meter.

whenimnotcleaningwindows · 04/09/2025 18:01

cardibach · 04/09/2025 17:45

It’s cheaper for me (£23 a month). Apparently it’ll almost always be cheaper if you have more bedrooms than people (always unless you have some reason for extra water use).

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Mine has gone up from £29 to £43 over the last couple of months, so if it went back down again I'd think about it!

CheltenhamLady · 04/09/2025 17:54

£60 for 2 adults 4 bed house. It has gone up substantially though.

CalzoneOnLegs · 04/09/2025 17:54

£47 per month, just me, Wessex Water, (was £26 two years ago)