do you use a lot of water?

For those of you only paying £10/month you are doing brilliantly. Are you including standing charges and sewerage in too or is that, literally, just for water?

Greyduster, I'm really annoyed by the long waiting time (and water use) of the boiler. It's hardly efficient in use, whatever they say. The pipes run for miles around this house. I therefore don't use gas in the summer - I'm angry about the standing charge too.

So, the boiler and gas are off, my gas account is closed and I use the electric shower. No summer gas or electricity bills (solar, so they pay me for input). I boil a kettle if I need hot water in the kitchen. Of course, family and guests think I'm really odd (or completely mad) but I'm saving a fortune.

PamelaJ1
Between £10 and £11 is my United Utilities bill.
In explaining your bill it says
In straightforward terms, we charge you for the following services:

Supplying clean water to your home

Taking away and cleaning all your dirty water (which we call sewerage services)

Taking away all the rainwater that falls on your home and the public roads and footpaths

Standing charges to cover customer services such as reading your water meter (if you have one), sending bills and dealing with enquiries

Gosh Mollygo we us quite a bit less water than the average 2person household and we are paying £38/month. Our service and rainwater charge should be similar.
Are you just lucky with your provider do you think?

Those of you who are only paying around £10 /£12 a month, do your bills show how many cubic meters a year you use?

We are paying twice as much as that, but are using around 50 cubic meters a year, so I am interested to know if the difference is totally down to your lower usage, or if some of it is down to price differences between companies.

That said, if it was only me in the house, I am confident that usage would be less than half of what it is now, though I also fear that our old sewer pipes might start to block up if too little water was going through them on a regular basis.

We have inherited a very large pond. We have several waterbutts that drain into it, but now and then, when the weather is exceptionally hot we have to top it up with tap water
Do we get rid of the pond or occasionally use a lot of water ? .

This is ours September 2021/22.
64 m3, £23.30pm, includes everything Southern Water.

We used 52m3 in 6 months, Feb-August last year. We are Anglia water.

PamelaJ1

We used 52m3 in 6 months, Feb-August last year. We are Anglia water.

How strange - it sounds like you use twice as much water as we do, but your bill is not twice as much, yet we are with Anglian Water too. 😕

Don't use much water but we don't pay for it here.

kircubbin2000

Don't use much water but we don't pay for it here.

What do you mean by ‘not paying for it?’

Surely you pay for your water somehow? Do you mean it’s not a separate bill, but included in your council tax or something?

I assume you are in Scotland maybe?

PamelaJ1

Gosh Mollygo we us quite a bit less water than the average 2person household and we are paying £38/month. Our service and rainwater charge should be similar.
Are you just lucky with your provider do you think?

Our no idea about lucky. Because if this thread, I decided to investigate further. I looked at their advice/information about showers, dishwasher usage, washing machines etc and it told me that if I followed the advice on the page, my yearly bill would be . . .
approximately £200 more per year.
What would you do?

Mollygo keep doing what you are doing but it seems WE must do better!
Oldnproud but a lot of the bill is service charge, our service charge is £20/month for water and sewerage.
I’ve posted our bill a bit further up the thread so if you are with Anglia water yours must be the same format. It would be interesting to see if the charges are similar.

Possibly included in the rates but no actual Bill for water so can't say how much I use.

PamelaJ1

Mollygo keep doing what you are doing but it seems WE must do better!
Oldnproud but a lot of the bill is service charge, our service charge is £20/month for water and sewerage.
I’ve posted our bill a bit further up the thread so if you are with Anglia water yours must be the same format. It would be interesting to see if the charges are similar.

Ah, yes, I forgot about our fixed daily charges (which, not surprisingly, are exactly the same as yours) that are not based on the amount of water used . That explains it!

I just use what I need.Quick showers helps and not putting the wash machine on every day.

I use an average of 44 litres per day. I have a water meter. My payments are currently £14.50 per month. I live alone in a 1 bedroom bungalow. No car, so no car washing. I have a water butt so no hosepipe.
I am very careful with my water usage.

As we pay for both the tap water and the sewage removal, we use as little water as is consistent with keeping ourselves and the house clean.

And this hot summer has really brought it home to us that water is a limited commodity.