[Mick (UHPS)]

Moved house recently. Asked the Mrs to ring the waterboard and sort out registering us as a commercial water user, informed them we are WFP and have an RO system etc etc.

I did notice on some paperwork from them that anybody using an RO filtration system must have a meter fitted.

This is the jist of their reply:

We dont bother anymore with the RO must have a meter rule.
We use to fine people that installed them and didn't inform us, but not now.
We will make a note on your account that you are a commercial user but the rules are the same for both commercial and domestic users.
You can have a meter if you want but we dont force you to.
If there was any sort of water shortage you would be treated the same as a domestic user, no special treatment for businesses.

What do you reckon?

Thanks

Mick

[windowwashers]

Moved house recently. Asked the Mrs to ring the waterboard and sort out registering us as a commercial water user, informed them we are WFP and have an RO system etc etc.

I did notice on some paperwork from them that anybody using an RO filtration system must have a meter fitted.

This is the jist of their reply:

We dont bother anynore with the RO must have a meter rule.
We use to fine people that installed them and didn't inform us, but not now.
We will make a note on your account that you are a commercial user but the rules are the same for both commercial and domestic users.
You can have a meter if you want but we dont force you to.
If there was any sort of water shortage you would be treated the same as a domestic user, no special treatment for businesses.

What do you reckon?

Thanks

Mick

You will find that domestic use and commercial use does have a difference in a water shortage, or it does for Anglian water, and as they said this is normally across the board but you have to speak to the right people not the first few monkeys up the line as they dont seem to know what they are talking about.

Ian

[Mike 108]

Great link to website! 

[jaykie]

I fell for that one too.

Chris

[Mick (UHPS)]

Moved house recently. Asked the Mrs to ring the waterboard and sort out registering us as a commercial water user, informed them we are WFP and have an RO system etc etc.

I did notice on some paperwork from them that anybody using an RO filtration system must have a meter fitted.

This is the jist of their reply:

We dont bother anynore with the RO must have a meter rule.
We use to fine people that installed them and didn't inform us, but not now.
We will make a note on your account that you are a commercial user but the rules are the same for both commercial and domestic users.
You can have a meter if you want but we dont force you to.
If there was any sort of water shortage you would be treated the same as a domestic user, no special treatment for businesses.

What do you reckon?

Thanks

Mick

You will find that domestic use and commercial use does have a difference in a water shortage, or it does for Anglian water, and as they said this is normally across the board but you have to speak to the right people not the first few monkeys up the line as they dont seem to know what they are talking about.

Ian

Maybe give them another call then. Does seem strange that they have a clause stating a meter must be fitted if you have an RO then say it doesn't matter. I just want to do the right thing.

Do you think we will be allowed to continue if there is a water shortage. I thought it was only food and health industries that were exempt.

[Pdh]

bills need to be paid

[Mick (UHPS)]

bills need to be paid

Yes I know and it would be tough for people that relied on water for their business but, this would be about preserving water suplies. I wonder what customers would think if their water useage was restricted and we were using large quantities for whats basically a luxury, non urgent service.

Im just playing devil with this.....but Im sure people would go ape if they were restricted and we were allowed to continue working.

Lets hope it doesn't get to this point.

[dan hughes]

I like Charlotte 

[paul D long]

i agree i love her too great link fell for it hook line and sinker 

[frames to panes]

Anyone lip read?

[Ian Lancaster]

If your customers are mainly domestic, then you need to keep practising your trad skills.

In the event of another water shortage, whether we get banned or not, your customers are not going to be very happy if you turn up and start sloshing umpteen gallons of water over their houses when they're banned from watering their gardens, washing their cars etc etc.

My contigency plan is: WFP second floor and above, ladder/trad first floor, trad ground floor.

Won't earn so much money, but at least we'll still have a business to run when the ban is over

[Ian_Giles]

Hosepipe bans are always around, they are not really the problem, it is when it goes further, standpipes on street corners and so on...if it gets to that level in whatever area you work then it may well be that you are going to have real problems!

I see nothing wrong with restricting water use with things like using a hosepipe to water the garden and washing cars.
A staggering amount of water can be used by very few people in a very short amount of time...

Having said that, it's the bloody water companies that are the real culprits where water wastage is concerned
Up to 40% of water is lost through leaks before it even reaches it's intended destination
Now that is staggering I think.

Back in 76 we had the worst drought in modern times, standpipes on corners etc etc.
You would have thought that the powers that be would have been taught a salutary lesson...
But what has happened since that time? Have the leaks been slowly coming under control?
Have they hell, they have increased year on year, more water is lost due to leaks than ever before, and they have the gall to lecture us (all of us, not just window cleaners) on wasting water.

It really makes my blood boil
Put their own houses in order and THEN they can lecture us, not before.
But of course all they really care about is the shareholders, profits and dividends and the potential to sell on the business at a huge profit

The rules on these utilities need to be changed, I don't know how, I just know they need changing....

Ian

[windowwashers]

If your customers are mainly domestic, then you need to keep practising your trad skills.

In the event of another water shortage, whether we get banned or not, your customers are not going to be very happy if you turn up and start sloshing umpteen gallons of water over their houses when they're banned from watering their gardens, washing their cars etc etc.

My contigency plan is: WFP second floor and above, ladder/trad first floor, trad ground floor.

Won't earn so much money, but at least we'll still have a business to run when the ban is over

Many of my customers would moan it I started doing them trad they like the magic wand to much, if there is a ban I may just do the bottoms, but no way am I being forced onto a ladder by anyone including the water companies, maybe if there is one I will get in the paper  :

Ian

[Helen]

Someone as old as me, I remember it well

[poleman]

no way am I being forced onto a ladder by anyone including the water companies

Total agree, what I am in the process of doing is installing a rained harvest to cover my needs and beating the WFP ban, if it comes

[Mr H]

Someone as old as me, I remember it well

Don't forget the plague of ladybirds that happened that year to....

The other thing that will help cause a water shortage is all the extra homes they are building but not increasing reservoir capacity......