I turn off the tap except when I am using it for my greenhouse automatic watering, which is only on when I'm away from home so I do worry about what would happen if something sprung a leak. It's been fine so far though.
Couldn't you connect it a water butt instead? Depending on how long you go away for of course.
Wouldn't the water butt have to be raised to get enough pressure? Also my greenhouses are a long way from the house and higher up so I think it would be rather complicated! I've been successfully doing this for about 20 years with no problems so am hopeful it will continue to be ok. (Probably tempting fate there for this year!)
@Singing Gardener Oh, it sounds like you have quite a large complicated system compared to my little greenhouse, where I've just got a couple of butts on little towers of bricks. They'll probably fall over one day and I'll try to film it with some toy dinosaurs to make a Ray Harryhausen type movie. I'm sure you're not tempting fate.
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
On the rare occasion I use the hose it always goes off at the tap. The water pressure here is rediculously high so even good quality fittings can't be relied on to hold.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I'm quite surprised that some of those who answered mention the possibility of not being on a (water) meter. Does this mean that there are people who get free water?
I'm quite surprised that some of those who answered mention the possibility of not being on a (water) meter. Does this mean that there are people who get free water?
It means there's a lot of people being charged for water they don't use as well. I pay just over £25 a month and I've spoken to people getting 'free water' who are paying more than 3 times that.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I believe about half have them and half do not. Free to request if you so wish. Without one there is a standing charge based on the rateable value of your property, so those with expensive properties will save more. No 'fair to all' systems allowed here!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
We were told they couldn't fit a meter for us because we have two feeds into the house. They both come from a single stop cock at the edge of the property so I don't understand the problem. I assume the meter is fitted there. I certainly wouldn't have one fitted inside the house.
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