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[STEMO]

Water is the one that I get upset about. £50 a month for the wet stuff

It costs more to get rid of than deliver. It's something like £2 a cubic metre to supply, then £2.30 for drainage per cubic metre, then further standing charge for surface water!

Ah.....

We're talking shite here, aren't we? 
I believe that the waste water has a little more erm  volume than the delivery?

Wha? 

 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Water is the one that I get upset about. £50 a month for the wet stuff

It costs more to get rid of than deliver. It's something like £2 a cubic metre to supply, then £2.30 for drainage per cubic metre, then further standing charge for surface water!

I believe that the waste water has a little more erm  volume than the delivery?

Wha? 

 

Ah.....

We're talking shite here, aren't we? 

Here we go.....   

[Lazydocker]

Interesting discussion.

We have oil fired heating and our boiler is around 25 years old. We have tried both routes. We used to have the boiler timed but hot water constant (can't stand wanting hot water and getting a tepid flow!) and then, on advice of a trusted friend and boiler engineer, switched to having it on all the time and letting the thermostat do the work. There was no cost difference! In fact, our costs went down slightly.

The stat is now in little one's bedroom and that controls the demand for heat with TRV control in all other rooms bar one hall radiator.

We do also have the wood burner that supplements our heating now. In fact, it may get lit soon!!

[Nick W]

Water is the one that I get upset about. £50 a month for the wet stuff

It costs more to get rid of than deliver. It's something like £2 a cubic metre to supply, then £2.30 for drainage per cubic metre, then further standing charge for surface water!

I believe that the waste water has a little more erm  volume than the delivery?

Wha? 

 

So you're saying that a cubic metre of mud has more volume than a cubic metre of water? How is that possible? It's the old which is heavier, a ton of lead or a ton of feathers? joke.

[Andy H]

Water is the one that I get upset about. £50 a month for the wet stuff

It costs more to get rid of than deliver. It's something like £2 a cubic metre to supply, then £2.30 for drainage per cubic metre, then further standing charge for surface water!

I believe that the waste water has a little more erm  volume than the delivery?

Wha? 

 

So you're saying that a cubic metre of mud has more volume than a cubic metre of water? How is that possible? It's the old which is heavier, a ton of lead or a ton of feathers? joke.

The point is that you only have a meter on the (clean) water supply - the waste flow is charged against the volume of clean water that is supplied (with the assumption that the customer increases it's volume by dropping turds in it)

[EMD]

Set it to 20.5 and leave it to click on and off when the temp falls  Uses less than keep switching it on and off yourself every few hours . Its like a freezer in here without it but it does tend to hold the heat better since the extra loft insulation .

[Sir Tigger KC]

I believe that the waste water has a little more erm  volume than the delivery?

So you're saying that a cubic metre of mud has more volume than a cubic metre of water? How is that possible? It's the old which is heavier, a ton of lead or a ton of feathers? joke.

No I'm not saying that at all.  A cubic metre is a cubic metre irrespective of the matter.  So the volume will be the same, but the mass might be different.  In our example the waste water has more volume because of everything added to it, but to be fair a cubic metre of waste water will have more mass than a cubic metre of clean water. 

[Kevin Wood]

I believe that the waste water has a little more erm  volume than the delivery?

So you're saying that a cubic metre of mud has more volume than a cubic metre of water? How is that possible? It's the old which is heavier, a ton of lead or a ton of feathers? joke.

No I'm not saying that at all.  A cubic metre is a cubic metre irrespective of the matter.  So the volume will be the same, but the mass might be different.  In our example the waste water has more volume because of everything added to it, but to be fair a cubic metre of waste water will have more mass than a cubic metre of clean water. 

It doesn't smell as nice, of that I'm sure we can agree.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I believe that the waste water has a little more erm  volume than the delivery?

So you're saying that a cubic metre of mud has more volume than a cubic metre of water? How is that possible? It's the old which is heavier, a ton of lead or a ton of feathers? joke.

No I'm not saying that at all.  A cubic metre is a cubic metre irrespective of the matter.  So the volume will be the same, but the mass might be different.  In our example the waste water has more volume because of everything added to it, but to be fair a cubic metre of waste water will have more mass than a cubic metre of clean water. 

It doesn't smell taste as nice, of that I'm sure we can agree.

We'll have to take your word for it Kevin!   

Anyway back to the central point of this thread, before things get heated!   

[plym ian]

Being down south i havent put my heating on in over 2 years

[Sir Tigger KC]

Being down south i havent put my heating on in over 2 years

Wellard!   

[TheBoy]

Water is the one that I get upset about. £50 a month for the wet stuff

It costs more to get rid of than deliver. It's something like £2 a cubic metre to supply, then £2.30 for drainage per cubic metre, then further standing charge for surface water!


Not helped by the fickin water babies I live with.

Can we charge the water companies when they are short of water?  "I'll sell you my rainwater to help you refill your rivers and reservoirs?"

[TheBoy]

My heating (and water) is on 24x7, with a programmable stat that varies the temp based on day and time.

I think my (standard rate) energy is about £120 a month, the vast majority being for leccy.

[plym ian]

Being down south i havent put my heating on in over 2 years

Wellard!   

No well warm 

[ronnyd]

We have warm air central heating and it,s easier to just turn the stat up as and when required.