[Village Gleam]

Since going WFP my wife has been warning about my our water bill because we are on a meter. I fill an 1000L IBC about every three days, and have braced myself for a £700- £800 bill.
This is what I got;

[aztec]

see its not so bad is it mate!

[Russell Macdonald]

What period did that cover mate?

[Wayne Thomas]

Us South West water consumers pay for all the tourists to come down here and use our clean beaches at our expense and to top it all we give our water to the South East in times of drought, get nagged at for using WFP by the grocco's (tourist) from London area and yet we don't get subsidised or a rebate despite earning the lowest wages in the country because our counties main income is from tourism. Water bills down this part of the country are a joke since privatisation of the water companies.

[Village Gleam]

It says 189 days, so with 365 to the year, I guess it is for six months.

If your counties main income is from tourism Wayne you better start being a bit nicer. We don't like being called grocles(how do you spell it?). The good thing about healthy tourism capacity is you have lots of accomadation for all the countries new arrivalls
You always drop lucky.

[williamx]

Have you told the water board that you use a wfp system, if not, do so, because your sewage cost should come down.

Also kept a record of how much water you are using for the business, this is then a tax allowance.

[Pj]

Sewage costs will only come down if your waste goes onto the land or soakaway and you can prove it, (with drawings from original builder or ground plans showing clearly the land drains..your responibility to prove.)

[Moderator David@stives]

We call them emmits and my bill was £500 and we arent even on a meter, highest water bills in the country down here in the southwest.

[Jet Cleanse Ltd]

Its nice to see that tourists are so welcome in the South West!, that some would like all the people in the South East do die from dehydration through lack of water and the fact that there should somehow be subsidising for running a business, surely this should be incorporated in the cost of cleaning the windows, (Im assuming that everybody in that part of the country refuses to clean any houses that are holiday lets then?) what a wonderful, sharing world we all live in.

On a plus side if your bills are above £500 it can be cheaper to rent a standpipe from the local water company and fill up that way it costs about £480 a year including vat where we are and thats what we do as we mainly provide pressure cleaning and use about 1000L+ a day.

[Russell Macdonald]

We call them emmits and my bill was £500 and we arent even on a meter, highest water bills in the country down here in the southwest.

Second Dave, my water bills are £600 a year & i'm not on a meter. 

Next the water companies want me back on ladders or on the dole.  :

[Tosh]

Since going WFP my wife has been warning about my our water bill because we are on a meter. I fill an 1000L IBC about every three days, and have braced myself for a £700- £800 bill.
This is what I got;

Standby for that £700 quid cost; look at your bill; it's just an estimate!

[Jet Cleanse Ltd]

The bill is correct as it states that the meter was read on a particular date so unless they could not read you should be okay although i used to monitor my own meter to make sure of what was being taken by the company to obviously claim back the money.

[Village Gleam]

It says they charge me £1.15 for every 1000L, so if I used a cubic meter a day it would still be under £400.
It's the first fully wfp bill I've had and thought it would usefull information for other forum members.

Try and keep things in perspective, it's a bill. I haven't won the lottery or posted I earn a long un a day!
(If you see my van it says Country Bumpkin Window Cleaning- and I have a large ruddy faced farmer hefting a wfp on the side and back. I operate in the chepstow area)

[windowwashers]

i find the post interesting, when i get my bill in i will also post it.

thats gave me an idea, see if I can get others to post on this topic 

[stevekennedy]

We call them emmits and my bill was £500 and we arent even on a meter, highest water bills in the country down here in the southwest.

Second Dave, my water bills are £600 a year & i'm not on a meter. 

Next the water companies want me back on ladders or on the dole.  :

I think the water companies will like the wfp systems. They are raking it in. Hopefully they use the revenue to fix the leaks and build more reserviors.

[john tomkins]

To those that have got a water meter .......
Where exactly did they fit it, and can you bypass it

[Wayne Thomas]

To those that have got a water meter .......
Where exactly did they fit it, and can you bypass it

You can bypass it if your neighbour isn't on a meter

[Pj]

If you are on a meter...

As you can probably read, our water bills are calculated with a sewage/foul water treatment charge too.

Some of you may ask, "How do they know what water is coming out of my tap for me to drink, and how much is flushed down the loo?"  Easy, they calculate your total water usage and then charge you again another 90% of that for poo treatment!

However,  if you filter your water and send your waste water out into the garden or a soakaway, (which will only be a minority of us), you can get a water miser meter from your water company, attach it to your outside tap and it will measure the amount you are not sending down the pipes for re-treatment, thus giving you a discount, because you can prove that amount was totally wasted and didn't need re-treating.

Now does that really make any sense?

It's true though.  meter all the water you waste back into the ground rather than into a drain and you get a lower charge.

Only if your water is metered though.

Crazy world!