Ours used to be a lot of money when it was based on the rates, now I pay £28.00 a quarter.
wow - £60 per six months is doing well - with your large garden and all your propagation. That's a third of mine. The cost per unit, standing charges and waste water charges might be less with your water company...
Oh, oh but how much cheaper my life would be without a garden
(ps I have gone back to my previous messages and edited a lot to add bits).
We have several water butts so never use the mains for plants or garden. we don’t have waste charges, It’s a septic tank. Very frugal, no dish washer, one lot of washing up in a day, share bath water. All water drained off waiting for the hot to come through is saved and filtered. I have used rain water for washing machine if I have time.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
There was a thread a while ago about how to reduce the 'waste water' charge. It's half my bill, even though I use most of my waste water on the garden. I wonder how they measure it.
There was a thread a while ago about how to reduce the 'waste water' charge. It's half my bill, even though I use most of my waste water on the garden. I wonder how they measure it.
They will do it by a survey of your expected waste water, with various factors taken into account.
Which is why it can be challenged by specific data.
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
We don’t have a water meter so that means there is no economic obligation on me to curtail the use of water in the garden. I certainly don’t water excessively, but neither am I frugal, and I feel no moral obligation to conserve gardening water. I say this because I have not picked up a trend of the past 30 or so years that has made it semi-obligatory to have a bath or shower every day and to wash clothes, towels and bedding on a twice or thrice weekly basis. Swings and roundabouts.
Edit: I’ve just looked it up. We pay about £500 a year for water and sewage.
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I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
we don’t have waste charges, It’s a septic tank.
Very frugal, no dish washer, one lot of washing up in a day, share bath water. All water drained off waiting for the hot to come through is saved and filtered.
I have used rain water for washing machine if I have time.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Which is why it can be challenged by specific data.
Edit: I’ve just looked it up. We pay about £500 a year for water and sewage.