Posted by Gordon H on September 5, 2010, 4:31 am
>>You get into the realms of how much a shower costs, or a bath if you are
>>metered for water.
>Not really my experience.. It's just like electricity or what have you.
>We use what we want, but we don't waste it, but then we wouldn't leave
>taps running unnecessarily, anymore than we would leave lights on.
>Out water use has been very stable over the years I notice. We seem to
>average about 60 m^3 every six months - this hasn't changed much from
>moving house, or adding an extra person to the household.
My average use over the 18 months I have had a meter is 1.073 m^3 per
week, so that would be approximately 28 m^3 in six months, but I am a
single household, and I have never wasted water, even before I had a
meter fitted.
When I discussed it with a neighbour who already had one, he said "What
you should do is to continue with the same habits, don't try to
economise or you will become paranoid". :-)
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Posted by chris French on September 5, 2010, 5:35 am
>>>You get into the realms of how much a shower costs, or a bath if you are
>>>metered for water.
>>
>>Not really my experience.. It's just like electricity or what have
>>you. We use what we want, but we don't waste it, but then we wouldn't
>>leave taps running unnecessarily, anymore than we would leave lights on.
>>
>>Out water use has been very stable over the years I notice. We seem to
>>average about 60 m^3 every six months - this hasn't changed much from
>>moving house, or adding an extra person to the household.
>My average use over the 18 months I have had a meter is 1.073 m^3 per
>week, so that would be approximately 28 m^3 in six months, but I am a
>single household, and I have never wasted water, even before I had a
>meter fitted.
There are 4 of us, so double would sound reasonable to me.
>When I discussed it with a neighbour who already had one, he said "What
>you should do is to continue with the same habits, don't try to
>economise or you will become paranoid". :-)
Indeed.
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Posted by Gordon H on September 5, 2010, 4:17 am
>too well made
>>
>> I have had a water butt for a number of years, I also have a water meter
>> for the last two years, it halved my bill.
>> --
>I do not have a water meter and do not want one even if it halved my bill.
>I don't want to worry about every time I turn the tap on, or how much it
>costs to run the water down the garden for my chickens.
>Or if I want to water my garden.
>If I had a water meter I'd be very concerned about every drop. I pay plenty
>for my water supply as it is and because of that I expect to use it as much
>as I want (which is not a lot, tbh)
>but the idea of it being metered is not for me.
>You get into the realms of how much a shower costs, or a bath if you are
>metered for water.
>Tina
Trust me, - you don't!
I use water in the same way I always did, but I no longer feel that I am
paying for the water used by the lady at number 18, who uses a hose pipe
to swill down her paved front garden, and even the pavement in front of
her house.
She has OCD, the only time I went in her kitchen I was almost overcome
by cleaning fluid fumes. ;-)
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Posted by kay on September 5, 2010, 4:43 am
'Christina Websell[_2_ Wrote:
> ;899478']
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> I do not have a water meter and do not want one even if it halved my
> bill.
>
I'm very pleased to hear it :-)
I've been wondering what will happen to meter charges once all the
people on low
usage, currently paying more than their fair share of
water charges, move to
meters.
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Posted by Gordon H on September 5, 2010, 3:11 pm
>'Christina Websell[_2_ Wrote:
>> ;899478']
>>
>> I do not have a water meter and do not want one even if it halved my
>> bill.
>I'm very pleased to hear it :-)
>I've been wondering what will happen to meter charges once all the
>people on low usage, currently paying more than their fair share of
>water charges, move to meters.
Yes, the more people who stay on the rateable value based tariff, the
lower my metered bills will stay. :-)
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>>metered for water.
>Not really my experience.. It's just like electricity or what have you.
>We use what we want, but we don't waste it, but then we wouldn't leave
>taps running unnecessarily, anymore than we would leave lights on.
>Out water use has been very stable over the years I notice. We seem to
>average about 60 m^3 every six months - this hasn't changed much from
>moving house, or adding an extra person to the household.