Water costs

[Wooly]

What are people paying for their business water at the moment please ?

I am with Castle Water and paying £2-3678 per M3. At a guess, that is on the high side ?

(I will suggest that from experience, Castle Water would not be recommended if anyone is thinking of switching!)

 

[upnortheast]

Any chance of putting a bore hole in. Best ROC project we have ever done. Bonus, you don't have to deal with these clowns.

 

[Wooly]

Any chance of putting a bore hole in. Best ROC project we have ever done. Bonus, you don't have to deal with these clowns.

Not on Romney Marsh........ we would end up with salty water

 

[Will Blackburn]

Not on Romney Marsh........ we would end up with salty water

Any springs or clean surface water?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Water water everwhere and not a drop to drink ,
Its bubling up everywhere on my field a Ditchling , think that would drink ok

 

[An Gof]

What are people paying for their business water at the moment please ?

I am with Castle Water and paying £2-3678 per M3. At a guess, that is on the high side ?

(I will suggest that from experience, Castle Water would not be recommended if anyone is thinking of switching!)

£2.0979 per cube here with SW Water. 11.4% cheaper than yours but still rather galling considering the rainfall we endure and the free product they get

 

[Will Blackburn]

I feel the water supply side must subsidise the side. How much does it cost to pipe it from a big lake and stick a little bit of chlorine in it?

 

[Y Fan Wen]

I feel the water supply side must subsidise the side. How much does it cost to pipe it from a big lake and stick a little bit of chlorine in it?

I've said it before, delivering water is cheap, taking it away again is expensive.
Never had anything to do with mains water before getting the retirement home so I had no idea what a bill was going to be like. Last quarter was 2 cubes used and cost 2.91. Sewerage charge was also 2 and cost 3.91. Water service charge- 20.92 and sewerage service sharge - 57.23 making a total of 74.37.

 

[Wooly]

Any springs or clean surface water?

Nope....... but we do collect the rain water from the roof of one barn. Now water is over £2 cube, it probably will be economical to install tanks on all the others.

We are lucky that every field has a ditch around them, so don't have to rely on expensive trough water in the summer

Last quarter was 2 cubes used and cost 2.91. Sewerage charge was also 2 and cost 3.91.

That's very fruggle of you ....only 2......... most people would use that boiling the kettle !

 

[organicguy]

I feel the water supply side must subsidise the side. How much does it cost to pipe it from a big lake and stick a little bit of chlorine in it?

If you had seen the waste of money on the infrastructure side you would think it cheap!

 

[betweenthelines]

Being a Water Co. is one of the best swindles around-selling a product that literally falls out of the sky for free!

 

[Enfoff]

£1.63060 here with Wave (Anglia Water). I been checking all our figures as just had a bill for £800 from a trough that usually costs £15. Didn't notice the leak because most of the field has been under(rain)water since last year.

 

[Wooly]

£1.63060 here with Wave (Anglia Water). I been checking all our figures as just had a bill for £800 from a trough that usually costs £15. Didn't notice the leak because most of the field has been under(rain)water since last year.

Same water, but 73p a cube cheaper.

Guess it's time for a new water provider !

I've just had an invoice for £12,000 if that makes you feel better. Castle water never read the meters even when you ask them to..............and the meter was unreadable to me unless you had one of their handheld gadgets

 

[Enfoff]

£12k! I feel for you. Hope you can get a better deal.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Same water, but 73p a cube cheaper.

Guess it's time for a new water provider !

I've just had an invoice for £12,000 if that makes you feel better. Castle water never read the meters even when you ask them to..............and the meter was unreadable to me unless you had one of their handheld gadgets

Do you have any leaks

 

[Y Fan Wen]

That's very fruggle of you ....only 2......... most people would use that boiling the kettle !

As I said, no experience of usage before, and yes, I was very surprised. The bill doesn't say anything about estimated readings either.

 

[nails]

Water water everwhere and not a drop to drink ,
Its bubling up everywhere on my field a Ditchling , think that would drink ok

Bloke who used to work for my Dad would often drink water coming out the land drains, mind that was pre heavy artificial use otherwise he would have been gigantic.

 

[renewablejohn]

Thankfully dont have water bills.