Cost of filling pool on water meter?

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Weather forecast is looking very promising for the next week so we thought we might break out the big 7,500 litre paddling pool we bought which has been sat in the garage awaiting just such an opportunity.

We are on a water meter though, and having seen so many people express concern about the extortionate cost of filling pools I'm curious as to how much it will actually cost

Struggling to make sense of all the different charges laid out on the water board website, but found a figure of £1.40 ish per square metre of water. So if a m3 is 1000 litres then it will be about £10.50?

£10.50 sounds quite reasonable to me for such a massive amount of water, especially given we'll use chorine tablets/filter and have made one fill of water last the whole summer before (different house, no meter). Or have I got my maths wrong?! Does £1.40 per m3 sound right or am I looking at the wrong figure?!

Confused, and thought someone wise on Mumsnet must know roughly how much it costs to fill up a big framed paddling pool!

I don't know the answer but we filled ours last year and used chlorine tablets so atleast it was a one off cost

Is it 1.40 per cubic metre or metre squared (latter doesn't make sense). A quick online check suggests that might be low for cubic metre price if it is then yes you will need 7.5 cubic metres to fill your pool. So 7. 5 x 1.4 = 10.50

It would cost about double that where I live as they assume 95% of the water you get out the tap will go down the drain. The sewerage charge is more per cubic metre than the charge for the water. Though if you are on a septic tank or similar you probably won't have a sewerage charge.

Ah, I saw sewerage/drainage charges on there and didn't understand what they all meant!

So you pay per cubic metre and also sewerage for the volume plus (looks like) surface water charge? Adding those together would take it to roughly £3.20 per m3, so £24 to fill the pool?

And yes I meant cubed not squared @Gizlotsmum 🤦‍♀️😂

Also check your website, because some authorities will allow a one off charge for water that won't be going into the drain. So swimming pools etc. I got a significant refund the year that I put in a new lawn which needed watering every day: the charge per unit for sewage is greater than the cost per unit for provision of water.

We are on a water meter and have a 4,500 litre pool. We will fill it in the next few weeks and leave it up until end of summer holidays. We use chlorine tablets and dip strips to check the water.

We have this for the last 3 years, and have not had any noticeable increase in our payments. Our payments have gone up by about £10 a year since the water meter was installed, which was several years before we used the pool.

If you have a friendly neighbour without a water meter ask if you can use their hose as well as yours. It halves the time to fill (about 4 hours with 2 hoses) and you have less water going through the meter.

The chlorine kits etc are amazing aren't they. Couldn't believe ours lasted the whole summer a few years back, although really had to stay on top of the filter and fishing out fallen leaves and bugs!

It's a new estate so sadly I suspect all the houses are fitted with meters, otherwise that would have been a good idea to ask.

We've not long moved in so I've been inputting our meter reading monthly to get a feel for how much we need to budget. If it's massively more this month I'll ask about sewerage charge for the pool water but if it's only £24 in total I probably won't bother because I am lazy and hate phoning people.

Dont have a water meter but Id love to know what you put under your pool. I bought one like yours and i want to put ot on the patio but we gave those stone slabs that are uneven. I have thick plastic but im not sure if its enough.

We bought some of these to put under our pool, makes it nice and soft on the feet when you're in it too.

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