Why has my water use almost doubled?

[rebeccat]

I live in a small flat here in the UK with a water meter outside it. Since 2022, my average daily water use has increased from around 55l to nearly 100l, the trend accelerating recently. Over that period I made serious efforts to reduce my water use. Fearing a leak, I checked the meter overnight when I used no water at all and the reading increased a little. My landlord sent a plumber who found no leak and suggested that the overnight rise was due to my immersion tank refilling after my final use of the hot tap. I'm at a loss to solve this. Why might my meter be showing such a large increase?

 

[HERTS P&D]

Do you have a push button toilet?

Andy

 

[just pumps]

Dry around the rim of all toilet pans with tissue paper then again after an hour to see if all is still dry.

 

[fourtytwo]

If your meter is one with dials rather than an LCD there should be a little black telltale spinner in the middle that will move wit the slightest dribble.
Unfortunately ball valves do dribble for quite a while after last use so make sure you wait long after you have flushed any toilet before you look.
If you have a combi boiler and no hot water cylinder you might not have a cold water tank with a ball valve to worry about OTH if that is not the case you will have to wait for it's ball valve to stop dribbling too. Have you checked any tank overflows are not dripping ?

Anyway I once lived in a group of newly constructed (several years before) terraced houses and the water company had mixed up the meters, so use you cold tap and the spinner to make sure the meter you are being charged for is actually yours!! Maybe a neighboring flat has someone new in it using more water.

 

[big-all]

just to put your mind at ease a bit at that level off use most is standing charges

i pay around £2.50 a ton/cum/1000L so if your water is similar you will have gone from £2.50 every 18 days to £2.50 every 10-11 days

 

[Deleted member 267285]

Your immersion tank, as it’s being referred to would use the same amount of water to refill, regardless of the time of day, unless it’s overflowing.