Home size more accurate than water meters!

[PAH]

And there's me thinking a water meter accurately measured the amount of water you were using.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7227793.stm

Water bills will be determined by the size of customers' homes under a new billing system from Thames Water.
Household bills currently based on an average metered bill will be placed in one of three bands based on the number of bedrooms at the property.

Thames said the system would better reflect the amount of water households use and result in lower bills.

It said 24,000 one or two bedroom properties would see their bills drop to £200 or £217 a year from £245.

However, 11,500 homes with three or more bedrooms would see their bills increase to £266 from £245.

Thames said it made the changes after a customer survey last year.

I'm hoping (for this approach to make any sense at all) that an average metered bill is where households don't yet have a dedicated water meter?

[crack_ho]

How do Thames Water know how many bedrooms I have?

[Sockpuppet]

Surely it should be based on the people living there.

Me in a 3 bed is going to use less water than a family of 4 in a 3 bed.

Mugs.

[Marina]

How do Thames Water know how many bedrooms I have?

They don't, and water meters are obviously far more accurate and fair (where they're installed).

I reckon the water companies have been pressurized into this ridiculous bedroom counting system, in an attempt to justify the Government's unconstitutional plan for councils to demand entry into peoples' homes for a council tax revaluation.

[BoredBloke]

Surely it should be based on the people living there.

Me in a 3 bed is going to use less water than a family of 4 in a 3 bed.

Mugs.

Water Poll Tax! I think this probably has more to do with not wanting the expense of fitting a water meter to every house - plus it allows them to justifyplacing low users into a higher bracket. How do they know that I don't take more than one bath a year and that I don't wash my clothes/pots/car

Any means of estimating will have winners and losers - that is why it is an estimate and not an accurate (expensive) measure. Somebody could try to estimate my use of bog rolls but I suspect that they would overestimate this based on the fact that I try to get as many of my poos on the timesheet - so to speak.

[milanbenes]

seems like a good and fair idea to me

Milan.

[Fishface]

Calculating water consumption by sq meter of space HAS to be the most idiotic reasoning ever.

Pay for what you consume measured by a meter - simple.

Like the rest of the world and the other utilities.

I am astonished that people/dunces get paid for coming up with this.

[milanbenes]

Fishy,

they're not the dunces

Milan.

[Troll]

I am astonished that people/dunces get paid for coming up with this.

Thames said the system would better reflect the amount of water households use

Did anyone say 'fairer'

and result in lower bills

Ahh spin...lurve it

[DimPrawn]

In the backward country of Cyprus they have a water meter. You pay for what you use.

Stoneage numpties I know.