Water bill £314 for a quarter- is this high ?????

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We are a family of 4 .
Husband showers every day
I have a bath every evening as does my daughter .
I shower every other day .
Son showers most days too .
Was going machine on once a day 4 days a week.

Is this high water bill ????

Seems high to me Just paid out water bill, but ours is for 6 months , and it was £444.

There are four of us and my son sometimes has 2 long showers a day. DH and myself have 1 shower. DD is at uni so home part time but also has daily shower when here.
Use the washing machine almost every day.

Do you have deep japanese-style bath? Could be that.

I presume you are metered? We're down south in a 3-bed semi and our 'fixed' water bill is £532 for the year ahead.

Are you metered or is the bill on rateable value, if the latter there is little you can do other than challenge the rating.
If metered what is your actual billed consumption in m3? typical per capita consumption is in the range from 150 l per person per day to low 170s. from your description i would suspect you're at the higher end. have you sued a hosepipe for patio/driveway cleaning car washing or garden watering as this will use a lot of water in a short time.
the charge will also include a sewerage charge which may be higher than the unit cost of water at 95% of consumption.
If the figures don't add up for you you have a leak downstream of the meter which will need investigation.

Roughly speaking it's £150 per person per year so yours sounds very high yes

@ThisIsStartingToBoreMe

Roughly speaking it's £150 per person per year so yours sounds very high yes

Charges can vary substantially between different companies in England and Wales and the supply organisations in NI and Scotland although I think both of those countries still bill for water in the council tax. The OP gave no info on where the property is or how its being billed.

I’d say that’s high. Have you checked for leaks?

Ours is about 500 a year metered we don’t use a lot as only 2 of us daughter at uni. But we get free outdoor water off a neighbour who’s not on a meter and let’s us use it. I have heard of family’s water bills being that high though, one woman I knew said hers was about 1500 a year , 5 of them.

Ours is 34 pounds per month, unmetered. So yours seems v high

If you're concerned about a leak, then look at your meter for a minute or two, after no one's used it for a short while. It should hardly move. Alternatively, no one uses it overnight, take detailed reading before bed and first thing in morning.

Depends where you are but it sounds high. We pay approx £30 pm. Are you metered or on water rates?

It depends on your area, water rates vary wildly, we're under South West Water (most expensive in the country I believe) and it is eye watering, we are really frugal with water (2 adults, 3 min showers, no baths, washing machine 2-3 times a week, don't flush wees, water in fridge so no tap running, no dishwasher, no garden hose etc) and can't get ours below £30 something a month so I can see with 4 people, 2 baths a day and long showers you could easily be using 3 times as much as us.

Just to say our rateable bill would be about 500-550 anyway according to neighbours so we are not much different, with the amount of baths and showers you have a month it sounds like you could be about right.

Seems a lot, ours for 3 adults is £49 a month

Wow that's alot ours is roughly 350 a year we dont have a meter though

Ours is about £350 a year (£29 monthly direct debit) for the four of us, on a meter. We don't take many baths though, and the shower is a bit pathetic!

You bath every day? Wow.
We (2 adults, 1 child) pay £120 every 6 months. Adults shower daily, child had bath 3-5 times a week. Washing 3-4 times a week.

£50 a month here for 4 adults, all shower daily sometimes twice daily as all do sport / gym. No baths though. Washing machine 12 loads a week

Impossible to say without knowing where you are. Watwr rates vary massively between areas.

Yes seems slightly high- ours is about 200-300 every 6 months.
Dishwasher/ washing the lawn/ washing any pets?

Depends where you are. I'm in south west water which is highest in country so that's pretty standard. Elsewhere I'd be checking there's not a leak

For two of us ours is £8 a month. We don't have a bath, just a shower. We wash the cars and water the garden and indoor plants as well. Your bill sounds huge.

@GOODCAT Bloody hell, £8 a month? Where do you live? Cries in South West Water.

@GOODCAT is that on a meter?! I pay £20 a month for just me and it reckons my water use is low

Assuming it's metered then you need to split out the usage and the cost. Without knowing those figures no one can tell you. There's nothing you can do about what your water company charges so what is your usage per day?

23 a month family of 4 South East. 4 loads washing a week. Possibly slightly grubby but no one complains so can't be that dirty! No sprinklers etc

Feels whooping from where I'm sitting.

Either massive regional variations or leak.