Reply to: Home size more accurate than water meters!

[DaveB]

Look Dave, don't spoil a good rant with a few facts, sheesh

Sorry, don't know what came over me

[SueEllen]

"It only applies". That's how it always starts. Soon they realise they've pulled the wool over our eyes and decide it's a better system for everyone.

Thames Water charge most homes more for water based on the old Rateable Value system.

It's actually in their interests to stop smaller households i.e. those with less people then bedrooms for asking for water meters or forcing them to change to water meters when they move house, as they get more money from them under the Rateable Value system.

[PAH]

"It only applies". That's how it always starts. Soon they realise they've pulled the wool over our eyes and decide it's a better system for everyone.

[Archangel]

It only applies to those households who have requested a water meter and where the supplier has been unable to fit one. For example in tower blocks etc. So for a lot of customers it could actually mean they get a fairer bill wehere they arn't able to get one based on a meter.

Look Dave, don't spoil a good rant with a few facts, sheesh

[DaveB]

It only applies to those households who have requested a water meter and where the supplier has been unable to fit one. For example in tower blocks etc. So for a lot of customers it could actually mean they get a fairer bill wehere they arn't able to get one based on a meter.

[milanbenes]

I am probably showing my age here,

but when I were a lad, didn't they have what was then called 'Water Rates' ?

and then the new fangled metres came along and everyone thought their bills would go up and they did and now perhaps the meter is too transparent and people can see what their water is costing per cubic metre when compared to something like evian, and therefore it must be getting difficult to subtly raise prices therefore....

we go back to a rates style system where price is arbitary against the service provided like for example council tax ?

what does the jury think ?

Milan.

[AtW]

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

Very common in USSR/Soviet Russia.

[DimPrawn]

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

Stoneage numpties I know.

[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

[milanbenes]

Fishy,

they're not the dunces

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]

seems like a good and fair idea to me

Milan.

[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.

[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.

[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.