Does anyone have a water meter in sheffield?

ox720 · 08-03-2007, 17:18

Just wandering if anyone has a water metre installed? Does it save you money? We have just been informed the price of water is going up so we were considering getting one installed. Your thoughts and experience would be most welcome.

KenH · 08-03-2007, 17:21

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Originally Posted by ox720

Just wandering if anyone has a water metre installed? Does it save you money? We have just been informed the price of water is going up so we were considering getting one installed. Your thoughts and experience would be most welcome.

All new houses have them. I would probably recomend not getting one unless you are forced to unless you use a tiny amount of water.

Dudan · 08-03-2007, 17:23

Hi
There are two adults in our house and we pay £17 per month. Water rates were £35 per month. We have it in about 18 months and have had no regrets. Hope that helps!

babychickens · 08-03-2007, 17:25

we've just had one installed, which will hopefully cut our bill by around 1/3, as the rateable value of our house is very high.

if you ahve one installed, you can have it on a trial basis for upto 1 year, and can opt back onto rates during that year, so the water meter wouldn't be in use until you moved out. then the next residents have no choice but to use it. so you could have one installed and not worry about it too much, just keep an eye on it for 11 months before you decide.

mat1978 · 08-03-2007, 17:28

Do water rates differ in different parts of the City?

Elphi 24 · 08-03-2007, 17:35

depends on usage. i live in a house of 2, have baths rather than showers, use dishwasher once a week and about 3 clothes loads a week.
Ive been paying £20 a month and will be getting an £80 refund cos of overpaying!

kwtcl1 · 08-03-2007, 17:36

my grandparentshave 1 an they will never look back but if ur a family don't even bother i know sum 1 who had 1 but it worked out dearer for family of 4

Grissom · 08-03-2007, 17:37

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Originally Posted by ox720

Just wandering if anyone has a water metre installed? Does it save you money?

I've got 95cm installed - is that near enough ?

Looked into it for my place a while ago - dont use enough to make it worthwhile

mahonia · 08-03-2007, 17:37

Best thing I have ever done, I was paying around 36 quid per month before on the old system, and now after 2 years its around 11 per month

rubydazzler · 08-03-2007, 17:53

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Best thing I have ever done, I was paying around 36 quid per month before on the old system, and now after 2 years its around 11 per month

Same here, with two adults in the house, the saving is fantastic ... about the same for a quarter as it was for a month.

I'm not sure how it'd work out if you had small children, though. Although I suppose if you use disposable nappies, there's not much difference in the total amount of laundry. Their clothes are much smaller after all

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Originally Posted by Grissom

Looked into it for my place a while ago - dont use enough to make it worthwhile

at this comment, you could use too much to make it worthwhile but you could never use too little, surely? If you're paying water rates based on rateable value, you'll be paying way over the odds than if you had a meter.

big_g · 08-03-2007, 18:00

We moved from Crookes (no water meter) to Crosspool with a water meter. Even with two adults and two small kids, we pay less.

We never wash mind

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G

Twiglet · 08-03-2007, 18:15

Two adults in my house and our bills are half the standard water rates, and we didn't take any conscious water saving action because we weren't aware we had a meter.

plekhanov · 08-03-2007, 18:22

My girlfriend & I live in a relatively new house which was fitted with a water meter when it was built, there's just two of us and we're pretty frugal environmental types who go to some lengths to try and use as few resources as possible including water so I expect the meter does save us money.

If you have a big family, water the garden a lot and so forth though you could well end paying more with a meter.

Chumley · 08-03-2007, 19:07

Our water rates were £65 a month when we bought the house two years ago. We had a meter put in straight away and now pay £15 a month.

Word of warning - if you have one fitted, check it every month. If you have a leak anywhere you won't know about it until you get your first bill after 12 months, and you can lose a lot of money in that space of time.

lazyherbert · 09-03-2007, 07:15

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Originally Posted by ox720

Just wandering if anyone has a water metre installed? Does it save you money? We have just been informed the price of water is going up so we were considering getting one installed. Your thoughts and experience would be most welcome.

get your water company on line & you can get an estimate of how much you use & how much it will cost. We did this & I think we will save Quite a bit of money also it stops you wasting water.

Twigmeister · 09-03-2007, 07:23

I wanted a water metre installed but when Yorkshire Water turned up they couldn't find the main water pipe in to the house.

So I got put on some form of special bill, which is for people who want a water metre but cannot have one. This reduced my bill by... 50p.

I was not impressed.

rubydazzler · 09-03-2007, 07:33

That's not good news Twig, what would happen if the pipe collapsed or it sprang a leak? I bet they'd find it quick enough then

feargal · 09-03-2007, 08:04

Don't be silly Rubes m'dear... of course they wouldn't find it!

There's been a water leak near my parents house for well over a year, and despite YW regularly digging a hole to stand around, it's still leaking.

Twigmeister · 09-03-2007, 08:12

What can I do? Their state-of-the-art pipe finding equipment, in the 21st century, was a giant stick. They proceeded to spend the morning poking my driveway with the stick and then digging a big hole, and listening to the stick.

whitewitch · 09-03-2007, 08:28

Yep, waters gone up, only another £20 for the year