I don't think I could be bothered but I thought some of you might be interested. I asked the chap if Thames water checked his calculations. He said that they didn't, but I bet if enough people claimed, they would.
@strelitzia32 . I haven't looked at your links yet, but the person who mentioned it said the meter cost about £25, 15 years ago and he has saved about £130 a year. Apparently he has a big garden and grows vegetables but it can't be that big even in posh outer London.
Perhaps he's got a rice paddy :-) .
£130 as a partial reduction makes it a huge amount of water.
Here I am charged £1.04 per cubic m of water, and sewerage charges are a fraction of that.
So that suggests he is using 250-'sky's the limit' cubic m of water per year for his hose.
1 cubic m is a hose or a shower running at a high rate for 3 hours. (5-6l or a gallon+ per minute).
Needs calculation.
There are quite a few large (say 1/3-1/2 acre gardens in London without it being millionaires' row) - sometimes they are 200ft+ behind a semi which happens to back onto a railway.
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3 hours isn't very much if you have a largish garden. Suppose you have 4 areas you particularly wish to keep watered and each one requires moving the hose to 3 positions. You need to run the water for about an hour in each position and do so perhaps twice a week between May and September. Soon mounts up.
Here I am charged £1.04 per cubic m of water, and sewerage charges are a fraction of that.
So that suggests he is using 250-'sky's the limit' cubic m of water per year for his hose.
I envy you. We pay approx. £1.4 for water and £1.65 for sewerage. So to save £130 per year, it would be only 79 cubic meters. A lot but not completely unimaginable.
We live out in the sticks and the rain run-off from the roofs of our 4 bed detached house and double garage feeds (via gutters and pipes) into 3 soakaways located on our land. None of it goes into main drains.
2 years ago I claimed and received a fairly sizeable reduction in our sewerage charges because of this. It was a straightforward claim because I provided good supporting evidence and Anglian Water also had the good grace to volunteer to refund me 6 years worth of overpayments🙂.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
We have had drought for 3 summers. We would need a tank the size of a swimming pool.
We have had a drought for 3 summers and we have neither mains water nor mains sewers. We have a lot of rainwater stores but most importantly, I have had to adapt what I plant because when we run out, we run out - that's it til it rains again. It completely changes the way you look at the resource - finite and not infinite. On the other hand, we don't have a water meter. Or a bill.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
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@Topbird, that's very interesting. We also have a detached house and as far as we know, the rainwater runoff from the roof goes into 3 soakaways. How do we prove it though? I don't recall anything mentioned in the paperwork. House was built in 1962.
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I asked the chap if Thames water checked his calculations. He said that they didn't, but I bet if enough people claimed, they would.
£130 as a partial reduction makes it a huge amount of water.
Here I am charged £1.04 per cubic m of water, and sewerage charges are a fraction of that.
So that suggests he is using 250-'sky's the limit' cubic m of water per year for his hose.
1 cubic m is a hose or a shower running at a high rate for 3 hours. (5-6l or a gallon+ per minute).
Needs calculation.
There are quite a few large (say 1/3-1/2 acre gardens in London without it being millionaires' row) - sometimes they are 200ft+ behind a semi which happens to back onto a railway.
F
So to save £130 per year, it would be only 79 cubic meters. A lot but not completely unimaginable.
2 years ago I claimed and received a fairly sizeable reduction in our sewerage charges because of this. It was a straightforward claim because I provided good supporting evidence and Anglian Water also had the good grace to volunteer to refund me 6 years worth of overpayments🙂.
On the other hand, we don't have a water meter. Or a bill.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”