Charlie wrote:
Maybe I'll try Frank's approach first before claiming against my
tenants. It sounds a bit messy.

Also - consider - did your tenancy agreement have a clause expressly
forbidding the tenants from changing to a metered supply? If so, then
forget it... Even if you do have such a clause, you shold investigate
whether it would be considered an "Unfair Term in Consumer Contracts"
(see http://tinyurl.com/7a46b [or
http://www.oft.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/DAAEFE58-1AAB-422A-AFED-BDE6C654A4EE/0/oft356.pdf)
and therefore unenforceable. For example, a landlord is not allowed
to stipulate that a tenant may not change the supplier of his
electricity or gas... to my mind, moving to metered water sounds a
similar sort of issue.

David


Charlie

hzatph wrote:

"Charlie" wrote in message
oups.com...
We recently rented our house out for a year and the tenants did not get
our permission to have a water meter installed.

Three Valley are refusing to give us unmetered water now.

On their website it clearly states:
What if I am renting my premises?
You must obtain the permission of your landlord before applying for a
meter installation.
so I though I had a fairly strong case.

Has anybody got any ideas or lines of enquiry I could persue to try and
get unmetered water back.

Reason for wanting unmetered water:
Three Valleys currently charge about £130 per year for unmetered water
to a property like ours.
At the moment metered water is costing us approx £20 per month.

Thanks in advance

Charlie



You may have a claim against your tenants - try uk.legal but the advice is
not a consistently good as it is on here