I'm looking for some guidance from the sages of life on NSC so any comments would be appreciated please.
We've been on a water meter for around a month now, so being a tight wad by nature I thought I'd check how we were doing cost wise compared with our previous rateable bill of £53 a month. We've significantly cut down some of our water consumption during the past four weeks (no long showers or big baths, use of hose etc) so I smugly figured we'd be well within £53 a month (perhaps around £30) but to my shock it seems our first monthly bill is likely to be over £45 a month when the standing charges are taken into account; and this is just for two people in a semi detached house.
Does anyone else on her have any experience of charges with a water meter? Are they really as high as it would seem? I've no doubt that we'd be spending more than £53 a month under metered charges if we hadn't been trying to economise, which beggars belief. I shudder to think how much the average sized family is having to fork out once they are past the two year period for which Southern Water allow an "adjustment" to be made to bills to smooth the transition to metered charging.
As far as I'm concerned, the Water Companies appear to be just as bad as EDF Scottish Power et al - and yet there's been little, if any, public criticism that I've seen to date.
We've been on a water meter for around a month now, so being a tight wad by nature I thought I'd check how we were doing cost wise compared with our previous rateable bill of £53 a month. We've significantly cut down some of our water consumption during the past four weeks (no long showers or big baths, use of hose etc) so I smugly figured we'd be well within £53 a month (perhaps around £30) but to my shock it seems our first monthly bill is likely to be over £45 a month when the standing charges are taken into account; and this is just for two people in a semi detached house.
Does anyone else on her have any experience of charges with a water meter? Are they really as high as it would seem? I've no doubt that we'd be spending more than £53 a month under metered charges if we hadn't been trying to economise, which beggars belief. I shudder to think how much the average sized family is having to fork out once they are past the two year period for which Southern Water allow an "adjustment" to be made to bills to smooth the transition to metered charging.
As far as I'm concerned, the Water Companies appear to be just as bad as EDF Scottish Power et al - and yet there's been little, if any, public criticism that I've seen to date.