Is it just me that begrudged the water bill. Electric and gas i get it, its a lot of effort to source and provide to your door. WATER falls out the sky which they collect in a resevoir 5 miles from my house. Shareholders took the profits. I feel blackmailed into getting a meter. This is my new bill for a 4 person house in bristol...
Water bill..
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kingtreelo
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is that without a meter?
Half of that bill will be the charge for dealing with wastewater (sewerage). Before I moved house a few years ago we were paying over a grand a year, on a meter. A chunk of those costs were incurred because we had a couple of ongoing leaks. After moving to a leak free house, with a septic tank, and meter, bill is about £150 a year.
£150 a year??? Which water company are you with tb lilley?
Just like Venom, we are 4 person household. I pay about £900 a year to South West Water which I believe is one of the most expensive water companies in the UK. We are on a water meter. Over 18 years ago, at my previous property we were on rates which was £780 for a two bed flat, no idea how much it would be now.
In addition to dealing with the wastewater, the costs also cover keeping UK beaches/coastline clean. Our area is responsible for over a third of the UK beaches which is one of the reasons why our bill is higher than most other water companies.
Just like Venom, we are 4 person household. I pay about £900 a year to South West Water which I believe is one of the most expensive water companies in the UK. We are on a water meter. Over 18 years ago, at my previous property we were on rates which was £780 for a two bed flat, no idea how much it would be now.
In addition to dealing with the wastewater, the costs also cover keeping UK beaches/coastline clean. Our area is responsible for over a third of the UK beaches which is one of the reasons why our bill is higher than most other water companies.
kingtreelo
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i'm not sure they are allowed to just charge one house for leaks to what is basically their infrastructure
My bill is about £1100 for a 3 person household, we do have a water softener though which I think uses a fair bit, plus my wife and daughter like to spend about 45 minutes each in the shower every day 🙄 it has roughly doubled in the last 5 years
Years back I was getting fed up of paying same money as other people in bigger houses that have probably 4 or 6 people using water and I'm using a small amount on my own but paying about 600 quid, this was 2005/07 so I had them out about fitting a meter but with extension done the water coming into the house is now near opening to extension so it's not suitable so they put me on cheaper single occupancy which I think was £300 ish to start about £400 ish the last few years
Annoyingly if I'd had a meter I could have used the tap outside that wouldn't have been connected through it
£1100
Annoyingly if I'd had a meter I could have used the tap outside that wouldn't have been connected through it
£1100
The leaks were my infrastructure (a toilet with a dodgy cistern which I might have repaired but couldn't isolate from mains), and a leaking overflow that I never did manage to track down). The plumbing in that house was a nightmare ..... And all that water was constantly flowing through the meter.
Dŵr Cymru (Welsh Water). To be fair the bill is now £240 a year - it's recently shot up from the £96 a year I have been paying for the last 4 years. We are surrounded by reservoirs, although most of the water held in those goes to Birmingham.
Perhaps if you have the time you can teach them to drive yourself, or get some willing and brave family friend of the minimum age required to accompany them for practice... I'm not sure if that's easier or harder than getting water out of a borehole but I'm pretty sure water is something less of us can do without.... we are likely all in for a nasty shock when the April water bill arrives, I'm waiting with some 'excitement'.
It was more a point about rising costs than anything else. My costs being compounded by the fact that there's an 8 month waiting list here for a driving test. Yes water is more important for sure obviously but I know what is impacting my finances the most at the moment 😁
Without going too far off topic, my son had the same issue just over a year ago waiting for a driving test. It was over a 6 month wait for him at the time. He downloaded an app for £5 which gave him notifications of cancellations, so he was taking a cancellation which meant he was doing a test within 2 weeks. Basically you book (or re-book) your test as normal with the massive long wait, then when the app gave him notifications of a cancellation he could move his test date forward.
Retroman839
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Here’s my energy statements
From Jan to feb …
Well done octopus you have really stepped up !
They just send out any old clap trap ..
And all the equations and chicanery they use to completely baffle your brain …
It makes peolpe feel uneasy as you live month to month not actually knowing what’s coming next scared to put your heating on ..
From Jan to feb …
Well done octopus you have really stepped up !
They just send out any old clap trap ..
And all the equations and chicanery they use to completely baffle your brain …
It makes peolpe feel uneasy as you live month to month not actually knowing what’s coming next scared to put your heating on ..
My dad taught me to drive and I never had an official driving lesson, then put in for test and passed 1st time, I bet you can't do that these days though
Edit, You can
Yes, you can take your practical driving test in the UK without taking formal, paid lessons from a DVSA-approved instructor
. There is no minimum number of lessons legally required. You must hold a valid provisional license, have passed your theory test, and use a car that meets DVSA insurance/safety requirements
I just put heating on as little as possible and have cut down on whats left plugged in wasting electric to save giving the greedy corporations more money
Edit, You can
Yes, you can take your practical driving test in the UK without taking formal, paid lessons from a DVSA-approved instructor
. There is no minimum number of lessons legally required. You must hold a valid provisional license, have passed your theory test, and use a car that meets DVSA insurance/safety requirements
I just put heating on as little as possible and have cut down on whats left plugged in wasting electric to save giving the greedy corporations more money
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My house is best part of 100 years old with lead pipes and had terrible water pressure, ( before I fitted a pressurised tank ) funny how they aren't interested in sorting that for me but they do keep baging on about me having a meter fitted but they want to fit it in my house by the stop tap the lazy fekkers.
Now the kids have grown up and baths are a luxury and not a daily necessity I would have one fitted but they will need to dig a hole outside to do it.
We pay around £100 a month so £1200ish a year in Oxford.
Now the kids have grown up and baths are a luxury and not a daily necessity I would have one fitted but they will need to dig a hole outside to do it.
We pay around £100 a month so £1200ish a year in Oxford.
On the heating front we have oil and apart from a few short lived blips here and there on prices it's been pretty stable. 44p a litre when we moved in in 2010 and the last delivery we had was just over 50p a litre. Really glad I didn't "upgrade" to air/ground source when I put a new boiler in a couple of years ago! I currently use about 2000 liters a year so about £11-1200 a year. Lockdown was great, they could barely give the stuff away 😁
Any idea what the app was called? My daughter has suggested one but it was considerably more expensive and looked a bit "scammy" to me