Water meters

The 'rule of thumb' is that if you have less people than bedrooms you will save money by having a meter. No idea if that is true but in our town all houses have meters and I am delighted that our latest bill came in at just under £17 a month because we were in credit from last year.

We don't use a sprinkler in the garden very often and we use a dishwasher which apparently uses less water than hand washing up. We shower.

The same for me. I don't particularly watch my water consumption: certainly not enough to make life inconvenient.
I can honestly say that my water bill is one which almost makes me smile now.

I flat already had a meter when we moved in. There are just the two of us but when I spoke to some of our neighbours they are paying about £150 a year more than us and they are on their own. Definately get a meter.

Definitely go for a meter, especially if there are only the two of you,
Mine is only £6 pm but we have a cesspit: to include sewage, it would be double that - still only £12 a month.
I use the dishwasher approximately every other day but, I understand that uses less water than continually washing up by hand.
I shower rather than bathe as the bath was taken out to put in a shower for my husband who was disabled with Parkinson's.

We more than halved our water bill by going on a meter but I would not have done it when kids were at home with all the !ing showers and dai!y double washloads.
We use washer Daily.shower Daily. Use Jetwash For Cars Weekly And Hose For Garden In Summer.
No Dishwasher.

For most people it is a no brainer, especially with one or two in the house.
I do a lot of washing and watering but the payment is roughly £27 a month.

I am on a water meter now and the half yearly bills are around £100 to £110. Currently our local costs are around £2.00 per day (yes that's right £730.00 per year). No wonder the shareholders of the utility companies are rubbing their hands in glee. I wonder how many of them are not on meters.

I had the same experience my water bills were more than halved when I moved to a house with a water meter. Our bill is £25 a month 2 of us, 2 bathrooms, 3 loos- we mostly shower although I have baths in winter and we have 2 water butts for the garden.

When we came here there was already a water meter. We now pay monthly less than half of what we paid in our last house, and are usually in credit. We also have a dishwasher and use the washing machine around two or three times a week. We no longer have a bath to fill, only showers. There are only two of us, but my neighbour had, at one time, both his adult daughters living at home. When they moved out, his water bill dropped like a stone with metering.

I second all those who say go for a water meter. We've had ours now for about eighteen months. There's just the two of us, we use a dishwasher and I put the washing machine on once or twice a week, depending on what I have to do. We now pay roughly a third of what we were paying before. Have a meter installed, ours is just outside my kitchen window, it's easy to access and read.

Definitely go for a meter. Our water bill was £68 per month without a water meter, with a meter it went down to £25. We shower daily, don't stint on the dishwasher / washing machine, have a garden and a pond which we water and top up when needed.

Well our bill went from £35 to £17 a month after the meter was installed. ( two of us) Our water company had a wonderful online questionnaire into which you put information about your water usage - number of baths, showers, uses of washing machine, dishwasher, cups of tea etc etc. When I filled it in it came back with the monthly estimate of £17 - I have just finished my first year and I am in debt to the tune of £1.15. Very impressed. Go for it

I live on my own in a 3 bedroom house and I have deliberately not asked to have a water meter installed. I do try to save water myself but any problem here is usually water related necessitating in the tank being drained.

My friends and neighbours two doors down, two in the house, have never regretted their decision. They do not do the amount of clothes washing that I do and they do not own a dishwasher. They have baths, I have showers, it is swings and roundabouts.