On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:22:28 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Janet Tweedy wrote:
I've just had a water meter installed. Hopefully it will save on the
normal bill of about 580 pounds a year. What sort of things can I do to
cut costs as much as possible?
I have four rain barrels, although I'm a bit worried about the need to
top up the a small pond we have, in the summer.
I do have a sprinkler and a hose so will try and not use the sprinkler
if possible.
Is it worth putting something in the cisterns of the toilets?

Janet
Oh dear.

Look. Wash, don't bath. Or shower.

With the correct shower head for the use, I'm running the shower at 4.75kW
even with the low incoming temperature; in the 'Summer' it'll be on 3.75kW
- if I'm fast I can have the shower on for ~3.5 min.

**** in the garden

sell the dishwasher.
Sell the washing machine.

Once you have to wash by hand, you will naturally find ways to just
rinse the coffee cups, and discover that washing clothes isn't something
you need to do EVERY day.

I wash up by hand every 3 - 4 days.
As I need to rinse clothes quite well, I've found that a load of laundry
that uses 50li in the machine uses more than that by hand - and takes far
longer to do.
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.