High water bills __________

[Loubanez]

Not sure if this is in the right section or even the right website but just wanted to query water meters and bills before I ring UU tomorrow, just had are bi-annual water bill and are monthly bill is shooting from £33 to £72 a month, to me this seems massively over what I would expect to pay, it's only me and my girlfriend living at the property, on average about 7-10 baths a week, no showers. Dishwasher and washing machine about 3 times each a week. No garden for watering plants. It estimates that we use about 560l of water a day.
Could there be a faulty meter? Or a leak between the meter outside and my internal stopcock? I'm certain there are no leaks within the property. Really not happy.
Thanks

 

[Rob Foster]

We live in a three bed semi two of us and the dog.Our bill for fresh water is £43.69 for 183 days,no baths just showers.

does that include taking the effluent away ? and are you factorised for putting storm water into the main drain ?

 

[ballvalve]

No it,s fresh water only the rest is on top.

 

[Rob Foster]

No it,s fresh water only the rest is on top.

checked your bill ? they often default to the higher price cannot think why
Rob Foster ...centralheatking

 

[malx42]

We had a water meter put in a year ago. We used on average 1 cubic metre a week, that’s 145 litres a day. We have showers. A bath might take 80 litres.

Sounds like the water is leaking somewhere. Put you ear to the cold water tap and see if you can hear rushing water.

A school in Warwickshire got a £26000 bill because of a leak.

 

[Rob Foster]

Will do Riley l, out on the tools atm, will do as you suggested tonight.

any news on your water consumption

 

[Loubanez]

Think I've got to the bottom if it,
Can't be believe I overlooked this ;
Did the tests Riley suggested and there wernt any movements on the meter, so I took a mean average of my water consumption over a week,
I was told by numerous sources that a bath takes 80 litres, A bath is more like 130-150 litres, well one of my girlfriend's is, she also has an over active bladder and the toilet is flushed up to 15 times a day, so already with 2 baths and 15 flushes we are touching 450 litres,
The main issue was up untill late December we had a faulty diverter valve on the boiler, this constantly ran us cold baths and was very hit and miss, I expect are water wastage over that period was very high.
All this combined probably resulted in higher consumption. And with higher consumption came higher costs for waste removal.
I'm installing a shower in the coming weeks, a new eco toilet and I've got the valve fixed on the boiler.
Hopefully all this will dramatically decrease our consumption and ultimately our bills
Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions. Tbh I'm just glad i don't have to dig the drive up!!

 

[Rob Foster]

Think I've got to the bottom if it,
Can't be believe I overlooked this ;
Did the tests Riley suggested and there wernt any movements on the meter, so I took a mean average of my water consumption over a week,
I was told by numerous sources that a bath takes 80 litres, A bath is more like 130-150 litres, well one of my girlfriend's is, she also has an over active bladder and the toilet is flushed up to 15 times a day, so already with 2 baths and 15 flushes we are touching 450 litres,
The main issue was up untill late December we had a faulty diverter valve on the boiler, this constantly ran us cold baths and was very hit and miss, I expect are water wastage over that period was very high.
All this combined probably resulted in higher consumption. And with higher consumption came higher costs for waste removal.
I'm installing a shower in the coming weeks, a new eco toilet and I've got the valve fixed on the boiler.
Hopefully all this will dramatically decrease our consumption and ultimately our bills
Thanks for all the feedback and suggestions. Tbh I'm just glad i don't have to dig the drive up!!

'one of my girlfriends' well done. Thanks for letting us know the source of your problem....so when is the girlfriend going, cheaper than a shower and eco toilet ...I will pass this solution on to united utilities for their water consumption advice pages
cheers Centralheatking

 

[Loubanez]

'one of my girlfriends' well done. Thanks for letting us know the source of your problem....so when is the girlfriend going, cheaper than a shower and eco toilet ...I will pass this solution on to united utilities for their water consumption advice pages
cheers Centralheatking

'Did you know you could save hundreds of pounds a year by switching to different life partner'

 

[Rob Foster]

'Did you know you could save hundreds of pounds a year by switching to different life partner'

a framed poster of this quote in the bathroom might be more subtle ...happy days