To ask how much your water bills are?

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Sorry to be nosy, but we have recently had our water meter 'upgraded' to a smart version, which means, apparently, that the water company can drive past the house, point a device and read our meter without coming in to the house.

But our water bill has shot up.

I am of the opinion that our old meter was not working properly and that we have been undercharged for years.

DH thinks DD has started having too many baths.

idiot

Just over £50 a month, combined. 2 bedroom flat. Me, plus one child. One child who hates baths. I want a meter.

No meter £80 a month

£20 per month

Anglian water, metered, detached house, family of 4 including 2 teenagers. £52 pm.

Forgot to say 2 adults no children (hopefully on that point) 2 bed flat metered.

£56 a month. No meter.

£9.11 per week. I pay it through gritted teeth.
Thought water fell from the sky
It's a wonder we're not charged for Fresh Freekin air.
They'll tax us for day dreaming next

Oh don't have a meter.
Need that seems like an astronomical amount.
I have a 3 bed roomed house with a garden back and front and my rates are only £9.11 well as you have just read so 36.44 a month.
Have you seen into it why they are so high

2 adults, 2 DC, £40 per month.

£1,000 per year. That's around £20 per week.

£205 a year. A set figure not dependant on usage. We are 5 people living in a 5 bedroomed house.

There is so much discrepancy.

I think I need to look into this further.

£1 a day basically. I pay 6 months up front at a time.
No meter, 2 bed flat in London commuter belt.

£23 a month, no meter :)

Water meters ....biggest con out there. Once most the nation has made the switch sit back and watch your bills rocket.

2 houses we have lived in have been on a meter. Both had undiscovered leaks under the front lawn. Cue huge water bills. Months of stress trying to get things sorted. We felt robbed and were left more than skint.

We also had erratic bills. One month higher despite being away for 14 days. I just don't trust water meters. Our experiences have been peter shit.

I am currently looking to buy a house and have crossed 2 off our list based on the fact they are on metered water. I will never go on a meter again.

Give me water rates any day.

Thames water, £28/month on direct debit. There are 5 of us, two adults and 3 small children. I'm now worried we are underpaying somehow, although our meter is read every 6 months and has been the same for a few years now. It's just seems very cheap or we smell and no one told us

£27 a month - and we have over paid slightly so I think around £23 per month. We have a 3 bed semi, 2 adults, 1 toddler, 2 bathrooms. When we first moved in I switched to a meter as the rates were £600 a year. We are paying about half that on a meter.

electrolux We are United Utilities too. Robbing bastards!

My old house was on a meter, and that was nearly £50 a month (just two adults and a baby).

I've refused to go onto a meter in this house, as although I'm paying more, at least I don't worry about filling the kid's paddling pool, washing the car etc etc.

So to whoever says it's much cheaper on a meter, no, not with UU it isn't!!!

£20 a month?! Not up here it isn't!

£200 for 6 months - for three of us, me, DH, and 6mo DC - I thought that seemed expensive.

£89 a month, only for 10 months a year. I'm on rates though in one of the most expensive county's for water

check you haven't got a water leak like we had recently, our water company advised us that for one months use it was going to be £1000. Luckily for us they wrote it off.

Mine was 70 a month. Now on a Meyer and its just me so now 18, lots of that is just the standing charge! Shower at work and the gym mainky