I’ve just bought my first house and for the past three and a half years, have been renting at a fixed rate with bills included.

I’ve just been informed that my unmetered water rate for a 4 bed detached house with 2.5 occupants will be £80pcm (over 10 months). This seems a little steep to me, and is almost double what I expected…am I being unrealistic?

So to the question – how much do you guys pay? Are you metered or unmetered? Size of home? Annual rate?

Cheers,

Daffy.

Single occupant, metered. About £100/annum.

I got a bit of a surprise when I moved to Scotland and found out your water rate is breaded on your council tax band, nothing to do with how many people live there…

If you’re in England I think there’s quite a few water companies who will install a meter for a nominal charge, around £50 or so.

Ours is around £30/month for a 4 bed terrace (Northumbrian Water)

allthepies – Member
Single occupant, metered. About £100/annum.

Your bike must be filthy at that rate, Shirley?

Daffy, I too was shocked with a similar house and bill as yours. I think meters are installed free.

Either that or he only washes on a Sunday!

Edit: £30 per month for one very clean and very clean-haired person. 🙂

I’ve got rainwater tanks for that 😉

😆

You’re just a typical bloke!

😉

Ours is the same as jota. About £30 a month, unmetered 3 bed terrace with Northumbrian Water. £800 a year sounds a bit much.

Water in: £275pa
Water out: £319pa

Scottish Highlands, Band F

Metered and own septic tank, so no sewerage charges – £220/year.

You need a meter.

un-metered, sheffield.

£30/month.

I have a meter and use water frugally so fail to understand why I pay so much. Car hardly gets washed, garden is never watered.

I’m told that toilet flushing and high flow showers are the primary culprits.

It’s going to depend a lot on where you are. If you’re in the South West then according to OFWAT you can expect to pay £800 per year unmetered. We’re in Thames Water’s area and pay about £320 a year, most of which seems to go towards digging big tunnels under London.

Don’t pay separately. But up here the water part of my council tax is about 500 quid.

Thats band E in Glasgow.

Here’s all the he bands and their break down
https://glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4722

Think we pay about £400/annum unmetered for a 3 bed house, based on Council Tax band.

Midlands (Severn Trent), 3-bed semi, 2 adults, 1 child, 1 baby. £50 per month (very accurately) metered. We don’t scrimp and save water, but we don’t take the mick either. Took a few phone calls to finally get them to adjust the DD to what we actually used, based on submitting 24 months of monthly meter readings…

20 quid a month for two people in a 2 bed terrace in the NW Alps. On a meter as well.

Living in bristol and we were paying around £500 for the year unmetered. We got a meter installed free and we now pay around £300 for the year so much better off.

That’s for a 4 bed detached house with 2 adults and baby.

£24pm (£300 pa) household of 4, metered. Low volume flushing bogs, low volume DW and WM. Mains sewerage. Not paying for rainwater discharge as ours outflows to ground water.

And I work from home so all my poos and wees are flushed on my own dime 🙁

I was told the easiest to work out what’s best is if there’s less folk than there is bedrooms, a meter will always work out cheaper.
I’ve gone from paying close to £50pm, now down to about £14 with a meter.

I’ve just looked at the council tax link above – Glasgow City council. Like for like bands are still cheaper in Glasgow…with water included, than they are here for just council tax. Moved from unmetered 4 bed to a metered 3 bed detached. Far cheaper!