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Water rates

122 replies

Roundabout78 · 04/02/2023 21:49

How much do you pay? Ours is around £90 per month, sometimes slightly more. Family of 4, one shower each per day. Ours is more expensive than most people we know, and United utilities estimate we use the same as a household of 9 people?! Surely this isn’t right?

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SavoirFlair · 04/02/2023 21:52

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YABU.

Ilovemycatalot · 04/02/2023 21:53

£75 per month just me and my daughter. Apparently that’s to cover debt I owe to them as well. It’s a con in my opinion but you can’t win with these companies. Hoping over time I can reduce it.

cardibach · 04/02/2023 21:55

£22.50 but there’s just me. I’m not a wash the towels every time you breathe near them person though.

Saladd0dger · 04/02/2023 21:56

£30 a month I think. Family of 5 so lots of showers. 1 dishwasher load a day and a load of washing most days. Are you on a meter? We are. Wessex water.

JudgeRudy · 04/02/2023 21:56

Do you have a condenser tumble drier on regularly? They use water

Killerfail · 04/02/2023 21:57

How long are your showers?
Theres a huge difference between everyone having a 5 min shower or everyone having a 15 minute shower.
How many washing machine loads/dishwasher loads etc.
How many times is the toilet flushed each day?
Does someone have a bath a couple of times a week?

Have you turned every item off and checked the water meter isn’t still moving in case you have a slow leak somewhere?

We have flow reducers in our taps and a flow reducer shower head.
I’d have to check how much it costs, I can’t remember off the top of my head. I know we were higher but we rerouted some pipes and put the flow restrictors in and reduced down a fair bit.

Forestwalks · 04/02/2023 21:58

2 of us and ours is roughly £18 a month. We are billed every six months we either send readings or someone comes and takes them.

AuntieEntity · 04/02/2023 22:00

Me and DD and I pay £38pcm. I'm on a water meter too.

Original poster
Roundabout78 · 04/02/2023 22:03

Saladd0dger · 04/02/2023 21:56

£30 a month I think. Family of 5 so lots of showers. 1 dishwasher load a day and a load of washing most days. Are you on a meter? We are. Wessex water.

Yep water meter!

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Original poster
Roundabout78 · 04/02/2023 22:03

JudgeRudy · 04/02/2023 21:56

Do you have a condenser tumble drier on regularly? They use water

No, I just have a regular tumble drier.

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CambsAlways · 04/02/2023 22:04

Two of us 55 month

Original poster
Roundabout78 · 04/02/2023 22:05

Killerfail · 04/02/2023 21:57

How long are your showers?
Theres a huge difference between everyone having a 5 min shower or everyone having a 15 minute shower.
How many washing machine loads/dishwasher loads etc.
How many times is the toilet flushed each day?
Does someone have a bath a couple of times a week?

Have you turned every item off and checked the water meter isn’t still moving in case you have a slow leak somewhere?

We have flow reducers in our taps and a flow reducer shower head.
I’d have to check how much it costs, I can’t remember off the top of my head. I know we were higher but we rerouted some pipes and put the flow restrictors in and reduced down a fair bit.

Probably 10 min showers for me an my daughters, shorter for husband. Washing machine…1-2 loads per day, usually a quick wash though rather than a full cycle (don’t know if that makes a difference). Water pressure is crap, wondering if there is a leak somewhere. Turning everything off and checking if meter moves is a good idea, seems obvious don’t know why I didn’t think of that.

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layzinaboot · 04/02/2023 22:05

@Roundabout78 Ours was similar or slightly more than yours before we got a meter, but now it's about £30 since we switched. We're a family of 4 with 2 sporty teenage boys, so 4 showers a day and lots of washing. (Thames Water). Are you sure you don't have a leak? Do you water the garden lots in Summer?

cathythegreat · 04/02/2023 22:08

£17 a month for four of us.

I applied for a discount as I work but I'm also topped up by universal credits, and a single mum of three. This reduced the payments and then they wrote to me in September saying they would decrease the payments even further to support me during the cost of living crisis.

Spotsstripes · 04/02/2023 22:08

£42 a month 2 adults, 2 teens. Yorkshire water.

MoonlightMemories · 04/02/2023 22:10

Single person household here - about £40 a month (though apparently my bill is going to increase by about 10% this year, due to Anglian Water having increased energy costs or some such, donthats something to look forward to!). I do tend to have quite long showers though and do maybe 3 or so washing loads a week. Do often need to flush the loo/handwash a lot at times due to having a medical condition, so that probably ups my water usage a bit too. On a water meter and give readings every month.

Timesawastin · 04/02/2023 22:12

40 a month, 2 of us. But it's only that high because I once left the garden sprinkler on all night and now they think we do it regularly 😞

Seashor · 04/02/2023 22:52

£120 a month!!!!! Apparently it’s correct. No baths and a quick as you like shower.

jcyclops · 04/02/2023 22:53

£190/year (metered) with Yorkshire Water.

XenoBitch · 04/02/2023 22:54

£40 a month, just me (alone in a 3 bed). Not metered. Whole street has just had smart meters put in, so hopefully that will see a dramatic drop for me.

youshouldnthaveasked · 04/02/2023 22:58

That seems expensive. Is it possible you have a leak somewhere?

Family of 4, £30 a month. Daily showers, baths, dishwasher and during summer I have my hosepipe on every day

Whatsherusername · 04/02/2023 23:00

18 a month essex and suffolk water 2 people on a meter and baths maybe 3 times a week showers the rest of the time

Am i being thick but how does a condensing tumble dryer use water? I have to empty the water mine collects once it dries the clothes (or once its full up and wont run anymore lol)

Freddiefox · 04/02/2023 23:11

JudgeRudy · 04/02/2023 21:56

Do you have a condenser tumble drier on regularly? They use water

No they don’t. They aren’t plumbed in.

Pinkflipflop85 · 04/02/2023 23:13

JudgeRudy · 04/02/2023 21:56

Do you have a condenser tumble drier on regularly? They use water

Sat here trying to work out how thefuck a condenser dryer uses water when it isn't attached to a water supply...

Was126orbustandmaybebust · 04/02/2023 23:15

Thames water, both DD's away at Uni so just DH and I 8 months of the year.
Water meter - £15pm.
£90 seems crazy.