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How much is your weekly/monthly water payment?

64 replies

BlackPetunia · 26/11/2020 12:31

Mine has never been so high! It’s on a meter but at the end of the payment year ( March/apkril I think it was) I got £700 Back due to overpayment

What does everyone else pay?

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WitchFindersAreEverywhere · 26/11/2020 13:48

£69 pcm.
Metred, 4 adults.

Barbeasty · 26/11/2020 13:51

piglet81 if you can, check your meter reading.

Our last bill was ridiculous, and when we looked into it they were suggesting we were using the equivalent of 200 pints more water per day and they wanted to increase our direct debit by 300%

We checked and their meter reader had read a 6 as an 8. They corrected it and put the direct debit back down.

Snozzlemaid · 26/11/2020 13:51

£97 a month, rates not a meter from South West Water.
The shocking price we pay for living in Cornwall.

Rayna37 · 26/11/2020 13:52

£35 on a meter, two adults and a toddler. Increased from under £30 at the start of the year: one WFH now and several months with no gym showering for the adults etc.

AuntieMarys · 26/11/2020 13:53

£36 for 2 of us. 4 showers a day, washing machine on 4-5 times a week, dishwasher every day. We are on a meter...pre meter it was £800 a year

TJF2020 · 26/11/2020 13:55

Mine was £57 per month in the summer months and has just dropped to £29 per month.

BarbaraofSeville · 26/11/2020 14:08

Ours is about £35 a month on rates, but I don't understand how yours works.

You say you pay £44 pw, so a massive amount - about £180 a month?

But then they give you back £700 at the end of the year?

Why can't you pay the amount required for your use instead of some sort of water related savings racket?

BarbaraofSeville · 26/11/2020 14:10

Oh, and what other people pay isn't necessarily relevant to you because there's meters vs rates, different usages or rateable values and different prices around the country, but your water company website should give information about how to calculate your expected bill from some details about your household, number of people, how many showers you have that sort of thing.

BlackPetunia · 26/11/2020 14:13

it was just for a rough idea

plenty for me look into and ask about when i call them

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mrsm43s · 26/11/2020 14:15

£50 per month for 8 months of the year (so £400 per year) on water rates (no meter).

Family of 2 adults/2 teens living in a 5 bed house.

Every time I do a calculator it comes out as much more expensive to use a meter, so I'll stick on rates until I'm not allowed to!

WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo · 26/11/2020 14:16

Ours is £20 a month. No garden which makes a difference apparently.

BashfulClam · 26/11/2020 14:34

No idea we’re in Scotland so it’s listed under our council tax.

DelphineWalsh · 26/11/2020 16:03

£26pm for 8 months so £208 for the year. Not metered.

MrsMoastyToasty · 26/11/2020 16:10

£42 per month on rateable value (unmetered) for water and sewerage from Bristol Water/Wessex Water (the former supplies clean and the latter deals with waste, but they bill us together.

I have looked at ready recliners for going onto a meter and we would break even.

MrsMoastyToasty · 26/11/2020 16:11

Ready reckoners

piglet81 · 26/11/2020 16:12

@Barbeasty thanks, will investigate how to get into the manhole thing outside to check...

BlackPetunia · 26/11/2020 16:18

@piglet81 its looking like that is whats happened here

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GiantKitten · 26/11/2020 16:40

Ours is £40pm based on rateable value. Only 10 payments a year though, so average is £33pm.

There are only 2 of us here now most of the time, so I’m guessing it would generally be less if metered, but then when the kids visit I’d be shouting at them for using too much Grin

CatsOutOfTheBag · 26/11/2020 16:57

@fluffycloudland77. Can you explain more about surface water??

I had a roof put on my house from a flat roof, and they dug a soakaway in the front garden for the rainwater from the new roof. The rain from the back goes into a barrel for the garden. Does this mean I can get a refund too??
TIA

RightOnTheEdge · 26/11/2020 17:09

£36 a month, no meter, 1 adult and 2 children.
That's with Yorkshire Water

CherryPavlova · 26/11/2020 17:12

Absolutely no idea.

User258544 · 26/11/2020 17:17

22 a month. Live alone. Not many baths.

User258544 · 26/11/2020 17:18

I lie! 20 a month. It will go up as having too many lockdown baths.

copperoliver · 26/11/2020 17:23

£300 a year. X

PhilCornwall1 · 26/11/2020 17:23

Not metered, we are paying £102 per month.