So Monday our park manager comes over and says to call the owner as our water usage was really high. (Park manager takes the reading every month) I call owner and from the 15th of Sept to 15th Oct we used 57,000 gallons of water!
Say what?!?! We are talking swimming pool! Come to find out the copper pipe underneath our kitchen window went from pin hole (plumbers assumption) to full blown water leak (2,000 gallons per hour!).
Funny thing was, where the leak was located you could not hear the hissing until they pulled the skirting off.
Oh well, if there's a drought in Idaho next year, blame me.
Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
I hope you don't have to pay for all that!!
Posted by Misfit (Member # 26270) on :
Wow. That's a lot of water! Surely they're not going to make you pay for it. I know here, they would have. But our itty bitty city isn't very nice, either. They would let someone do a payment plan. Only way you get outta that bill is if it's their fault.
Did you not notice water running underneath? It's a wonder you didn't float away!
Posted by TxCoord (Member # 9204) on :
Because we're in a "lease" option, the water bill is ours. We pay the owner of the property, not the city, so there ya go! The bill came yesterday (after I posted) and it was about $80 more than usual. Family did send some help to pay for the plumber and extra water. Tomorrow has got to be a better day!
Posted by Misfit (Member # 26270) on :
It's tomorrow. I hope it's a better day! That's great that family helped out. My mouth hit the desk that it was only $80. But then again..they doubled our already high water bills here b/c they ONLY got a million dollar grant for a new treatment system. We have to make up the rest.
My water bills average $60 just for water. A month. And I still have to buy drinking water, b/c our water still fails one of the tests repeatedly. They SAY it's safe to drink..but long term consumption can be harmful to your health. Now, that doesn't make sense to me. If I'm lucky, I'll live here the rest of my life.
Isn't that long term consumption? Posted by Lymetoo (Member # 743) on :
My jaw dropped too! In many places that bill would be in the hundreds .. at least!!!!
Posted by TxCoord (Member # 9204) on :
It's possible that landlord will split it into next month's bill. We'll see. Like you, Misfit, we don't trust the water to drink so we use a filter (Brita) but it doesn't do everything we want. Just can't afford a better filter at this time.
Posted by randibear (Member # 11290) on :
yeah, just my water, too, is between 60 and 70.
our grass never gets any.
Posted by merrygirl (Member # 12041) on :
Holy moley. Our waterbill is like 1200$ a quarter.that's for two families
Posted by TxCoord (Member # 9204) on :
Had to have a 2nd visit by the plumber as there was another leak. That one only cost $70. Yahoo. At least it has warmed up so we don't have to run a drip all night.
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