Help please - splitting a metered water bill between two properties
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Fit your own, (inside the property) as near to the first usage point as you can get.Then remove it when you leave.0
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It sounds like you are part of a couple and "the lady next door" suggests she lives on her own.
Why not split it two thirds for you and one third for the lady and pay the landlord.
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Or do a trial when either house is on holiday - take a reading before and after you go so you know what one house uses in a week.
In theory you could cut down your usage in this week, but that would be a bit pathetic.
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We are a couple and are happy to do that but it is the principle involved, we think that if the supply is metered we should pay for exactly what we use, no more and no less. We've been paying two thirds for 4 years now and feel it is wrong - we wouldn't be expected to split any other type of bill and think that water is the same.0
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At the moment you are being billed for one supply (66%) of.
If you went down the route of having two seperate supplies, then your fixed charges would be far greater than 66% of a metered one.
If that makes sense?
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confused. One semi deatched house converted into two flats or two semi detached houses? If two semi detached houses why only one meter, surely both houses should have a meter each?
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My belief too - it is a semi-detached bungalow with one water supply to one meter then split into the two halves. I just need to know whether I am right to tell the agent/landlord that legally we should have a meter each. I'm not worried about two standing charges, just want to be billed for what I use.0
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See here:
http://www.ofwat.gov.uk/mediacentre/leaflets/prs_lft_101117meters.pdf
What happens if I live in a flat and I cannot have a meter?
We have encouraged the companies we regulate to offer a common billing
arrangement for customers in blocks of flats where shared water supplies mean
that it is not possible for occupants to have individual meters.
In such cases, the company will install a single meter to measure all water
supplied to the block of flats. This arrangement would involve the landlord and all
tenants agreeing that the company can raise a single bill for the supply to the
block. They would also agree that a single person or organisation (for example, a
landlord or management company) would take responsibility and recover charges
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My belief too - it is a semi-detached bungalow with one water supply to one meter then split into the two halves. I just need to know whether I am right to tell the agent/landlord that legally we should have a meter each. I'm not worried about two standing charges, just want to be billed for what I use.
Sorry but that's insane. You're probably paying roughly the right amount already but you want everyone to pay more just so you can get the amount exactly right?
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Actually I think we're paying less than we should. I want to be responsible for our own bills and not to have to guess each time.0
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Actually I think we're paying less than we should. I want to be responsible for our own bills and not to have to guess each time.
But at the moment you are paying 2/3s of the fixed charges If you have 2 meters (2 supplies) You will pay 100% of the fixed charges and the Lady nextdoor will pay another fixed charge at 100% You will in fact be forcing her to pay more than she already is. I would keep it the way it is.0 -
There's an easy formula for solving this:
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Vinnie has got a point - you're not only going to increase your bill, you're going to increase her's too.
Why would you want to do that?
There's only one winner - it's not you, it's not the lady next door ......it's the Water company!
If the lady next door is happy with what she pays, then I can't see there is a problem - unless you make one.
As the Americans say, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
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Share a bath with the wife or the old girl next door and pay half the bill.0
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Move to a property without metered water.
*simples*
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Did you ever resolve this @ME14addick?0
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The landlord arranged for separate water meters for each property, though we no longer live there.Chizz said:Did you ever resolve this @ME14addick?1 -
Fuck me, has this been playing on your mind for 11 years?9
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I thought it was going to be Damo and the Patels.
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Blimey it's been made into a Netflix series already.Baldybonce said:I thought it was going to be Damo and the Patels.3 - Sponsored links:
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I had forgotten I ever asked the question in the first place!0
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and we thought Avengers was the boldest cross over in movie history...Baldybonce said:I thought it was going to be Damo and the Patels.2
