I own a house in the same street where my mum lives, and along with other neighbours, that I contacted and found out that Thames water bills differ so vastly!
My house the bill is based on a chargeable value of Pounds 397.00, my mum sis based on pounds 254.00, my one neighbour's is based at chargeable value of pounds 175.00, yet all these houses are identical!
But when you phone Thames water, to complain and to adjust the unjust bills, they cannot do so because they say the chargeable value is based on when years ago some bureaucrats worked out why each house was different from another! yet they are not different, in fact some of the bigger houses with larger extensions pay less than some of the normal houses without extensions and with just a couple living in them whereby other houses have been extended hugely with loft conversions and a large family living in them paying less than a couple.
The solution isn't in having a meter fitted because it would not be fair if a larger family moved in a house where only a couple lived, so the larger family would pay more through large use, whereas, I believe that all the houses in a street should all be rated at the same chargeable value. Further more it would be very unfair if there was an inadvertent leak or a burst pipe, the bill could end up costing then occupiers thousands of pounds, this is the reason I am against water meters.
So I am paying nearly 600 quid for my house with just me and my wife and my mum only has to pay 370 quid a year and my neighbour pays 254 quid for the year, so how the heck did the valuation officers work that one out? perhaps they were drunk at the time!
My house the bill is based on a chargeable value of Pounds 397.00, my mum sis based on pounds 254.00, my one neighbour's is based at chargeable value of pounds 175.00, yet all these houses are identical!
But when you phone Thames water, to complain and to adjust the unjust bills, they cannot do so because they say the chargeable value is based on when years ago some bureaucrats worked out why each house was different from another! yet they are not different, in fact some of the bigger houses with larger extensions pay less than some of the normal houses without extensions and with just a couple living in them whereby other houses have been extended hugely with loft conversions and a large family living in them paying less than a couple.
The solution isn't in having a meter fitted because it would not be fair if a larger family moved in a house where only a couple lived, so the larger family would pay more through large use, whereas, I believe that all the houses in a street should all be rated at the same chargeable value. Further more it would be very unfair if there was an inadvertent leak or a burst pipe, the bill could end up costing then occupiers thousands of pounds, this is the reason I am against water meters.
So I am paying nearly 600 quid for my house with just me and my wife and my mum only has to pay 370 quid a year and my neighbour pays 254 quid for the year, so how the heck did the valuation officers work that one out? perhaps they were drunk at the time!
