210-250l per day, 2 people, 18 acre small holding, but we use rainwater for veg, garden, & sheep. We try pretty hard to keep water use down, but it’s difficult to get it down much lower than this.
Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.
@Fire. If it were me I would call and speak to a plumber or if you know a good general builder, if it’s leaking from your side of the meter it’s your responsibility, might be worth it in the end to get it sorted.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
They'd soon address it if you stopped paying the bill @Fire. That's the problem with all these organisations. They cr*p on you from a great height, even when it's their shoddy management that's at fault because they don't maintain the network well enough. If the people responsible had the same problem, I bet they would be sorting it out. The same problem has arisen with these smart meters for the 'leccy. All sorts of problems have been reported with them, but it's Joe Public who have to put up with it, and pay up.
Even though I've probably paid for far more water than I've ever used over the years [for a start - we don't have to water plants anything like as often as those in dry areas] it's possibly a better system we have here. Everyone pays a fixed amount and that's that.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I can’t understand how the water is being used but the meter doesn’t turn. If the meter doesn’t turn it should show on the bill. Something very strange there, I still think there must be a leak from meter to house.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Our supplier was kind enough to inform us that we might have a dripping tap or a running toilet.. checking the meter showed 600000L was missing over 3 months. So don't rely on them to tell you you have a leak! that usage was 6 years worth of water in 3 months. no idea where it went nothing is remotely damp.
We have a small leak right now in the toilet, it runs about 6L per day and that is visible on the meter The only way I can see you having a leak that doesn't show as a constant trickle is if it is triggered by something, so every time a car passes or something similar moves a pipe.
We had a slow leak under the kitchen floor, which we discovered several months after we moved in. It is an old house and there was no damp proof course under that room at the time, so it just drained away. We only realised when we received an astronomical bill from the water company. They didn’t care that we had only recently moved in and could have had no idea what was wrong, we had to pay up. It turned out that the water pipe was just touching a tiny stone. Each time the tap was turned on, the pipe must have moved a little against the stone, and a hole was gradually worn through the pipe, probably over a very long period.
@Fire - Whilst I’m writing this, I have remembered a problem that a neighbour of ours at our previous home had. The water company had connected his water to the neighbour’s meter, and vice versa. Our neighbour’s bill was enormous, even though he was a single man and often away with work. The other neighbour had a big family. Our neighbour twigged to what was going on when chatting over the fence to the other party, about how amazingly low his water bill always was. The meters were next to each other out under the edge of the pavement. The water company refused to entertain this possibility, despite many phone calls. So he had to wait until the other neighbour was away on holiday and insist that an engineer came out sometime during that week. Then he got him to stand there and watch both meters while he went in and turned on his own tap. I think he got a refund and apology at long last. Could this have happened in this case?
Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.
Our supplier was kind enough to inform us that we might have a dripping tap or a running toilet.. checking the meter showed 600000L was missing over 3 months.
It's probably outside the house.
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Thanks for everyone's thoughts. Mine is a very long water story and I have gone into all the boring details here. You have all given me some wherewithal to go back in and try and sort it out. My health isn't great, so the TW saga feels like a drain. I'll set a side a week for stupid phone calls and paperwork and try and kick some butt. Enough of me.
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If you tell them you think it's faulty, they may replace.
They need replacing every 15 years or so anyway.
Even though I've probably paid for far more water than I've ever used over the years [for a start - we don't have to water plants anything like as often as those in dry areas] it's possibly a better system we have here. Everyone pays a fixed amount and that's that.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Something very strange there, I still think there must be a leak from meter to house.