Lobster wrote:
wrote:

ok. The pipework in question is buried in gardens, and the user has
no way of knowing its leaking like mad until they get an astronomical
bill. With unmetered supplies this real risk doesnt exist.

So whereas it is not your problem if youre unmetered, it becomes your
problem if on a meter.

Exactly this happened to friends of ours. They switched to a meter
and were smugly telling us how much lower their bills were now, and
how we should swap too, when they suddenly got a bill for 00s of GBP
more than expected, due to an undeground leak on their property. So
they're now reverting to unmetered, PDQ!!

David

Heh! who's pipe was it, the waterboards or theirs?

If it was the Waterboards then they should have footed the bill, not the
houseowner.