Sue

Pretty sure mine isn't a smart meter. The situation must have changed. I think my original thread on this must have been three years ago.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I made a request last week for a water meter. > The reply I received was that my application > could NOT be completed due to a previous > application. > > I have never previously requested a water meter. > > > I live alone and currently pay ?405 P.A. I had to > dislose this in my application. > > I suspect that they have worked out that it would > not be profitable to Thames Water > to install a water meter at my address. > > They also indicated that my water meter would > need to be installed inside my home. > I have just had a new kitchen installed 2018 and > much of this would need removing and > reinstalled to reach pipework. This would cost > several ?100's possibly ?1,000 + > > ?405 is about ?1.11p a day which is fairly cheap. > Does not seem practical to proceed. > Surely if you have not previously applied for a water meter, you just tell them that? Possibly they have mixed you up with another address? Also if you had previously applied, why would you not already have a water meter? That doesn't make sense! I can't see why they would need to instal a meter inside your home. Mine is on the pavement, so they don't have to come inside the house to read it. It is also much more convenient for turning off the water if necessary, as the main stopcock used to be in my cellar. Have you got some strange arrangement of water pipes inside your house? I don't think this has to do with profitability to Thames Water. If I didn't have a meter, they would be getting ?200 a year more from me than they are now.

Will you have PA? If so I can PM you some people who may be up for it.

Revisited Monkatsu last night and again had a delicious meal. Why revisited? It was open relatively late on a Sunday and we had just got back hungry, has good and good value food, and is just round the corner from my house.

It's so heart warming to see people discussing butterflies and birds on a London forum xx ETA: Thanks to Peckhamgatecrasher for starting the thread many moons ago :)

sweetgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I hope you don't get any burst pipes.... Or even > hairline cracks > > Unless you regularly monitor it, you won't find > out till the bill drops! They read the meter every six months. The volume used is clearly stated on the bill. If I had a burst pipe I think/hope I'd become aware of it pretty quickly! And I think I'd have more to worry about than my water bill! But in nearly thirty years of living here, I've never had a burst pipe. Hope that isn't tempting fate :)) A hairline crack wouldn't lose much water. But in any case, the savings overall over the years would far outweigh the cost of anything like that, I'm sure.

tomskip Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We eat out as a family once in a blue moon partly > because we are rarely all together but also, yes, > because of the cost! I'd love to earn what you lot > are earning. Obviously it's more expensive if you have children, but you can eat out quite cheaply in East Dulwich, particularly if you don't bump up the cost with drinks. Franco Manca has great pizzas for example, with top notch ingredients (admittedly the toppings are a little sparse, but they make up for it with flavour). Franklin's bar snacks are also great value, eg a fantastic huge bacon sandwich with really good bacon. Also Meat Liquor's burgers. Admittedly if you want to go to a "proper" restaurant you will pay rather more, but surely you would anywhere? Not quite sure how a restaurant is actually defined, but Monkatsu has yummy food and isn't expensive. They also have a children's menu, I think. Oh and btw I am a pensioner (if that is still a term in common use) so I don't have shedloads of money, but I do like to eat out :)) I just accept I then don't have the money to spend on other things!

There was at least one thread on this a while ago, but I've done a search and I can't find it/them, so I'm starting another one. I recently got my payment plan from Thames Water for the year from May 2019, and once again my annual bill has been more or less halved. Before I changed to a meter, in May 2016, I was paying ?400 a year (well, ?399.34 :)) ) My average payment since then has been ?195. So far I've saved around ?600, with another ?200 to be saved in the year to come, assuming I use around the same amount of water. I'm not yer average water consumer, as I live by myself most of the time, so it's obviously worth doing a calculation via Thames Water's website before you bite the bullet: https://www.thameswater.co.uk/be-water-smart/water-saving-calculator (I think that's the correct link) However, unless things have changed since I got my meter, if you find that you aren't saving money by having a meter, you have twelve months (I think) to change back to your previous billing arrangements. I found the changeover and meter installation really easy, and Thames Water were very helpful throughout. I bought a fruit cage for my allotment with the first year's savings, and now I'm going for a cordless hoover with the second/third years' (and possibly fourth :)) )

sweetgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks everybody for you replies > > I'm going through different things but sadly so > far nothing has worked 😬 Very sorry to hear this. If you haven't already, can you get your GP to refer your little one to a hospital specialist? You may have to be quite assertive. As I have found through bitter experience this year (not with eczema). Good luck!

DovertheRoad Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'll try again. What makes a local favourite? Why > do some restaurants that do perfectly decent food > not attract repeat custom? Which restaurants are you thinking of that do decent food but don't attract repeat custom?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > This 'Fish' is not biting. Sorry. I wasn't fishing. I was just asking a perfectly reasonable question in response to your statement about "spy camera cars". As Seabag notes above, for me to ask the question was pointless. It appears to me that when you don't actually have an answer to a question you just don't reply to it. But hey ho, fool that I am, I will keep questioning statements you (and others) make which don't appear to be founded on any evidence. Because if nobody calls false statements out, that's when a new "reality" spreads round the world based on completely false premises. If you feel your statement was actually based on fact, then all you have to do is say what your evidence is. Easy!

Seabag Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > DulwichFox Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > Will that also apply to the little spy camera > > cars > > > who are the main culprits > > > when it comes to leaving their engines > > running. > > > > > > The main culprits?? > > > > How many of them are there?? > > > Sue, you know not to ask, just take it as fact and > move along. Yes, obviously I know it's pointless asking as no reply (or no sensible reply) will be forthcoming, but sadly I just can't let some statements go unchallenged. It would be like accepting that fake news is true :(

sjw Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think the fire service will do an inspection and > recommend and install smoke alarms I requested a visit via their website. Never heard from them.

Help-Ma-Boab Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Remember Inside 72. I hazily do. Halcyon days. > > ETA: They did food. Yes! Their burgers were good :)

PeckhamNicola Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Oxfam on Half Moon Lane. Don't think you can park there, can you?

The photos are fine. Personally I don't like the banners. Personal taste, but I think they would have looked better all the same colour.

You can sometimes park near the Mind shop, in the little road running up the side of it. If not, could you take someone with you who could hop out with the bags while you drive round the block?

But if this comes in, it will make a difference. It may make a small difference, but it will make a difference nevertheless. Yes of course there are things which will make a bigger difference, but that doesn't mean there can't be this too. As I said above, it will increase awareness, plus if large fines are brought in for company vehicles, then those companies will take whatever steps are necessary to avoid paying the fines - ie training their drivers to turn engines off when parked.

singalto Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I passed several cars today with their engines > idling. I cannot believe how many parents park > near their children?s school and leave their > engines running. Drives me mad. And me. And the school which used to be the old police station, at the bottom of Whateley Road, has (or had, not sure if it's still there) a large banner asking cars not to do this. I passed it once with a van sitting directly in front of the banner - with its engine running and, if memory serves, the driver on his mobile. I didn't do anything. Sometimes I go and ask them to turn the engine off, but too many times I have had the same sort of response as Seenbeen above, so now I only do it if I'm pretty sure I will be able to stay calm and polite. Which has not been possible on the occasions when they park outside my house and pump fumes into my living room, GRRRRRRR.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Will that also apply to the little spy camera cars > who are the main culprits > when it comes to leaving their engines running. The main culprits?? How many of them are there??

JohnL Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I like coffee shops but having an idea - we could > put the flyers in the coffee shops. I like that idea, as I don't drink much coffee :))

Well, if companies get large fines, they may spend a bit more time and trouble telling their drivers not to leave their engines idling. Of course it can't be policed everywhere, much like using mobiles when driving, but at least if it gets publicity and there is more awareness, some people might think twice. Every little helps, and all that :)

About bloody time too. Patience exhausted: UK drivers who sit with engines idling could face instant fines https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/14/patience-exhausted-drivers-who-sit-with-engines-idling-could-face-instant-fines?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard

Dbboy, it's very easy to change GP practices.

:))