[steveo22]

Any WFPolers on a water meter? I should be moving to a new property in the near future and wondering what the cost of WFP would be on a water meter? Apparently you can no longer switch over from a meter?!

[colin purewater]

im in the same boat as you mate

ive read some past posts saying over £100 a month in water bills

so im lookin at older houses and my 1st question is when i ring up about the meter

as all new houses seem to be fitted with them

(now there will be aload of posts telling me differnt) :

[DB Cleaning Services]

Hi mate I'm on a meter £90 a month I pay 

[spongebob]

Depending where you live you will pay around £4 per cubic meter (1000 litres). This is the combined bill for clean water and sewage.
Some authorities vary but generally you pay for your clean water and then 95% of that bill is then charged for sewage.

Remember that you have your RO waste to consider.
An example would be you use 400 litres per day of clean. If your RO is set at 2:1 waste to clean then you will have dumped 800 litres to get 400. Therefore you have used 1.2 cubic meters at £4  = £4.80 per day. You may only pay for metered clean and have a fixed charge for sewage which you would have to pay anyway. The other option is to install a meter and let the water board know that you discharge your waste to a soakaway and not drains but I would rather not have them sticking their nose in.
You need to speak to the appropriate water board and find out their charges and then carefully monitor your waste/pure ratio to work out your projected costs. it may then be worth you spending up on twin ro's , booster pumps etc.
Hope that helps.

[H S and Son]

Twin RO's Bob. Can you expand on what you mean exactly there please mate.

[londoncleaners]

Nope, making 2 k lts a night and it's all free haha

[spongebob]

Twin RO's Bob. Can you expand on what you mean exactly there please mate.

Sure Matt
If you are using a 40/40 then run the waste product through another 40/40 to remove more pure and reduce the overall waste.
It will mean the second ro takes more of a hit and doesn't last as long but cost may be outweighed by the saving in water.
If the tds was 300 and the first ro took it to 20 prior to di with waste at 450tds and ratio of 2 waste to 1 pure then the second ro would be hit at 450 but again may come out at 20ish with a similar ratio and you have recovered a third of your waste water but at the expense of the additional ro. the savings will depend on the cost of the water, amount used and tds levels which will directly affect the ro costs.
Obviously a good booster pump will be needed behind twin ros to improve output.

[steveo22]

Its a rip off, apparently they are trying to convert everyone to a metered water?!

[steveo22]

Hi mate I'm on a meter £90 a month I pay 

How many ltrs do you use a week on average mate?

[DB Cleaning Services]

Use about 2000ltrs a week,so there is probably about 5000ltrs coming out of my tap.

[S.A.J]

Hi mate I'm on a meter £90 a month I pay 

That's how much my water costs every month and I'm not even on a meter!!

[DB Cleaning Services]

Average water bill round here if your not on a meter is around £40 per month

[S.A.J]

Average water bill round here if your not on a meter is around £40 per month

is that all 

Southwest water are robbing ******** 

And as of April mine will go up by 5%

[idealrob]

Just to throw a spanner in the works, but under europeon law, we must be given a choice, eg we can buy our gas, electric from many suppliers, but not water, and legally this is an infrigment of our european human rights to choice

idealrob