marklaruk
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Registered: 4th Sep 04
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Just opened a letter from our water company and nearly fainted when isaw a bill for £340!!!!!!!
Thats from about start of september.
Sound about right for 3 of us living here?
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Paul_J
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Registered: 6th Jun 02
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£109 for 6 months.
4 of us living here. Some since june.
Think someone's leaving the taps on in your house lol.
[Edited on 10-01-2008 by Paul_J]
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Ally
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Registered: 2nd Jul 03
Location: Pontypool Drives: a Skoda
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house day
£32 pcm
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marklaruk
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Registered: 4th Sep 04
Location: Leeds
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you are having a fucking giraffe 
well one of em likes his baths lol.
Are you on a meter?
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marklaruk
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forgot about hosue day
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Ally
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did u give a reading when you moved in?
we are just on a set charge every month - but i live in wales so may be different
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
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£10 per month
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p4uls corsa
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i pay £30 a month,there is 6 of us.
[Edited on 10-01-2008 by p4uls corsa]
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marklaruk
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yeh gave a reading when we moved in.
Heres what the last bill says:
Previous reading on 28/9/07
Estimated reading on 27/12/07
Water Volume charges 150.00m(cubed) at 109.20p
Sewerage Volume Charges 142.50 m(cubed) at 117.10
£346
Lad who has the baths is like oh its not that baddddd, im nearly crying.
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Tommy L
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that sounds a little steep
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marklaruk
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im just looking now and sumthin in wrong
on our meter reading it says read teh first four numbers which i wrote down 1425 (or at least i did as i did it on the tinterweb.
On our bill it says its 1535
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dna23
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Registered: 1st Nov 04
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It's estimated, your next bill will be much lower as a result. (that's assuming they come and read it or you phone them to give them a reading)
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marklaruk
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ahh i c ic. We might not even be in this house by feb anyway lol!
Thx 
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Robbo
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Think Natalie and I paid £20 a month when w eboth lived there, down to £15 since I moved out I think
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Colin
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Phone up & tell them (if its an estimate) & they should correct it.
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Russ
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rates, so , dunno
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Natalie
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
Think Natalie and I paid £20 a month when w eboth lived there, down to £15 since I moved out I think
Only paying £5 per month.
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Robbo
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Must be all those showers I had 
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Aaron
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Registered: 9th Aug 04
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Either that of Natalie likes to be Dhurty!!!!
[Edited on 10-01-2008 by Aaron]
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marklaruk
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quote:
Originally posted by Robbo
Must be all those showers I had
You were pretty filthy after our sessions TBH
Been to my mums tonight so she could have a look as i had worked out both bills from when we moved in were so wrong!!
When we moved into the house the ladlord showed us the reading which was 1374.
We had been in the house a month and got our first water bill through and it said from the 31/8/07 (when we moved in) until the 28/9/07 our bill was £111. The reading they had down from when we moved in was 1337 (estimate) as apposed to the proper reading of 1374!! So basically they charged us for 48 units when we only had used 11
So now on this second bill which luckily i was sure was wrong, and my housemate seemed perfectly happy with had charged us for 150 units as they again estimated what our current reading was, even though i gave our proper reading ove the internet 5 days ago. We have only actually used 40!
From moving in just over four months ago they have us down for using 198 units and we have only used 51, lol!
Atleast i know now The lass who moved in with us has been renting for a couple of years now and should have picked up on the first bill but didn't! Me and teh other housemate were new to it all and basically didn't have a clue but she seemed happy so we thought it was right.
So tomorrow i will be ringing them up and getting the old bill sorted and this one and we should only be paying £20/£30!! I feel so much better.
I can't believe i wrote all thsi because it's fuckign boring. 
[Edited on 10-01-2008 by marklaruk]
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richardworrall
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im only paying 2.20 per month.
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BlueCorsa
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Last couple of bills have been about £55 per quarter, on a meter, 2 people and don't use hosepipes.
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Kerry
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£60 a quarter and there are 5 of us
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Jay
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Registered: 26th Sep 04
Location: Liverpool
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Ours is £340 too, 2 of us and a baby living here, absolute joke! I think its an estimate?
[Edited on 12-01-2008 by JayM]
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dna23
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It will say on your bill if it's an estimate or not. You should take regular readings anyway as a matter of good practice, most water companies overcharge and there's lots of investigations at the moment into some of them regarding this...
I moved into my student house, had a bill for 2.5k from previous tenants, has been an absolute nightmare sorting it out. Trust me, you want to make sure they get the bills right or it'll get out of control.
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