Large house with 5 adults, how much is your metered water bill?

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We're not on a meter yet but have the option to change over. Our latest annual bill is an eye-watering £800+. But I'm worried a metered bill will be more with baths/showers and the washing machine going etc. If you live in a large house with 5 adults, how much is your bill?

We're not five adults but we are 2 adults 3 children and ours is about £50/month. We have daily showers, about 10 loads of washing a week and a dishwasher. We aren't overly careful with our usage.

We are a large family- 4 adult kids, me and dh and ds1's gf living with us. We are not metered and our latest bill is £536.69 for the year ( Severn trent). I really hope they don't switch us to metered.

It's going to depend on which area and water company you are with. We pay about £700 annually with Wessex Water on a meter. Family of 5 - 3 adults.

Anglian water metered here . 5 adults and two under 16 , plus 3 horses and field water yearly bill was 900 . If we'd put in another meter just for the outside it would have been less because obviously they charge sewage for 90 percent , when really they were probably only treating 60% . New bill just came in and nearly had heart failure. Turned out we'd had an undiscovered leak in the field, and instead of using 200 cubic metres, we'd used 563 . The bill was so high , the system wouldn't allow it to generate . Fortunately, they could see what had happened, and the gave us a leakage allowance which pretty much covered the excess . Right now they are my favourite utility company

Bumping for the weekend crowd, in case there are any more...

House suitable for 5 adults and unmetered.

£725 for the year based on rateable value for 3 bed detached . As far as I can work out only £105 of it would vary if we had a meter. The rest is one £600 of charges that wouldn't change.

5 adults.
£64 per month metered and we live in an area with high water charges.

2 adults 2 teenagers metered £55 per month. Normally 3 showers daily. bath filled 3 times min a week. Washing machine min twice daily. Normally fill the large pool over the summer too.

Between 3&7 adults here, typically 4. Bill is £250 per 6 months. No significant gardening goes on, use commercial car wash, 2 of the typical household make up are a little water shy

There's usually a calculator on the Water Companies websites which works out what you would pay. I doubt it would be cost effective with 5 adults.
We pay £43pm on a meter with 3 adults but we are in a Severn Trent area and judging by what I've seen on other discussions about water, I think they are one of the cheapest companies.

Looks like my bill is more expensive than everyone's

Large detached house, two adults two kids (washing machine on daily and dishwasher every 2 days) baths and showers daily and we pay £40 a month for our water

£37 per month for 2 adults 2 teens in Severn Trent area. Teens spend over half an hour each day in shower despite my moaning.

We've only just had a meter installed but in general if you have fewer people than bedrooms then a meter is probably cheaper than equivalent charge based on rateable value. Size of house shouldn't make a difference to how much you use on a meter.

Most companies will allow you to swap back to paying rates in the first 2 years if it works out more expensive.

Our latest bill was £950 if it makes you feel
any better OP

Large detached house, 2 adults, 3 teenagers, 1 youngster. Usually 4-5 showers a day and at least washing machine load per day and we are paying just short of £500 a year.

We got forced to swap to a meter 11 months ago, our ‘comparative billing’ period is almost up and our annual bill will be going from £480 (rates) to estimated of £790 (metered)…

Large house with 2 kids and 3 adults plus I work from home doing a job that involves a lot of water.

We're on a meter with Seven Trent water and pay £36 a month.