Yorkshire Water.

[Workingman]

Hmmm, good question. I'll give that a look - err once I get this year's account bill.

[cruiser2]

We are with NW water. Not on a meter.
Pay £66.oo per month by DD.
This has gone DOWN from last year.
Not bothered about having a meter as it would mean a lot of work and upheaval.
Meriad, You must have a very small house to only pay £200 a year.

[Workingman]

Cruiser, an auto reader meter takes less than an hour to fit in most properties and often internal work does not need to be done. Nearly £800 for just two people sounds way over the top to me - you should check it out. Property size is immaterial, it's the water used that counts.

Ria's figure is about what I would expect to pay for a single occupancy flat / home, which is what we both have.

[meriad]

My boss used to pay a ridiculous amount of money to Thames Water; purely because of the address - most houses in his road were HUGE whereas his wasn't. So when I started working for him and I saw the first bill I (with is agreement) arranged for a water meter to be installed. The bill went down from £2 thousand (yes, thousand!!!) per year to £150 per quarter - and this was for a family of five that used water like there was no tomorrow

Cruiser, if you're pay £66 per month, then that is a lot - definitely think about the water meter. It's installed outside your property so you won't even know it's done (well that's where my boss's is - the water companies don't require access to the property to read the meter)

[JoM]

Cruiser, I agree with Frank. As I said earlier, we’re paying around £420 per year and we’re a family of four adults. The showers are used at least four times a day, the dishwasher is used daily, the washing machine is used every couple of days (and sometimes there’ll be two loads), the garden is watered in Spring and Summer and there are three cars being cleaned regularly too.

[TheOstrich]

Cruiser, seriously, if you're currently being charged based on your "rateable value", and if there's only the two of you in the house, do have a think about getting a water meter installed. They'll do it for free. The two of us here are paying around £300 a year, and that's high compared with Jo!

The only other thing you have to take into consideration is getting some sort of add-on to your home insurance cover for any leaks / repairs occurring between the new meter and your house, because that stretch of pipeline then becomes your responsibility.

[Kaz]

Cruiser, I agree with Frank. As I said earlier, we’re paying around £420 per year and we’re a family of four adults. The showers are used at least four times a day, the dishwasher is used daily, the washing machine is used every couple of days (and sometimes there’ll be two loads), the garden is watered in Spring and Summer and there are three cars being cleaned regularly too.

Almost exactly the same here Jo, around the £400 mark, except it's three adults and two cars

Cruiser, you are definitely over-paying for a two person household xx

[Gal2]

I find Northumbrian Water really fair with my DD payments, they're the only company who charge me exactly what I use, (we are metered) as in winter, for example, we run baths every night, where in summer we tend to shower more, so our average bill atm is about £250 a year. Which is fine for two adults IMO.

Crommers you maybe should consider having a meter fitted, you'd save so much money. It's only chargeable for what you use, nothing to do with the size of the property.

[miasmum]

I have found this thread really interesting. We dont have a meter and I pay £60.59 per month. There are two of us, we both have a bath every night and we fill them to the brim, and we both shower every morning. We run the dishwasher most nights, and I use the washing machine most nights and three or four times once a week when I do lots of small 20 mins loads. We water the garden, we run a lot of water for the waste disposal so I have always presumed we are better off without a meter.

My mum had an assessment for a meter, and she was the only person they had ever assessed that lived alone and was better off without a meter and I have always assumed because of the baths we have we would be the same but you have me wondering. Problem is there is no going back is there?

[Gal2]

I think you may find the less people living in your house, the better off you are with a meter.

If you have little ones, maybe not so much, but certainly a couple would benefit. IMO.