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Water Charges Query

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  • 25-09-2014 6:34pm
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    tomhenryford
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    As like most people, I am panicking about the impending water bills.

    I have read the pack that came though the door, I've read through the Irish Water website as well as information on Citizens Information but none of it gives a way of calculating an estimate of what the annual charge might be.

    I've one property, the family home, 4 adults. 1 employed full-time, 1 in college and 2 unemployed.

    Is there any way to calculate roughly how much I'll be paying.


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    ABajaninCork
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    Have a look at this thread. Within the thread someone linked this pamphlet from Money Guide Ireland.

    It's by no means accurate since not even Irish Water seem to have a clue as to what the charges will be. A bit worrying as they start billing from next week!


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    tomhenryford
    Registered Users Posts: 421 ✭✭tomhenryford


    ABajaninCork wrote: »
    A bit worrying as they start billing from next week!

    Yes I had a look at that but the figures seem to be for properties which haven't been metered yet but mine has.

    If I even knew that it was never going to be more than X figure, that would be some help. I know everyone's in the same boat but from that link it looks like a household with 4 adults such as mine is looking at an annual charge of roughly €500 but yet the government said no annual bill would exceed €278 or whatever they said.

    The first bill is in January, just after Christmas, January is a horrible month at the best of times without knowing that there is a bill coming and having no idea how much it is going to be.


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    Gatling
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    tomhenryford wrote: »
    Yes I had a look at that but the figures seem to be for properties which haven't been metered yet but mine has.

    If I even knew that it was never going to be more than X figure, that would be some help. I know everyone's in the same boat but from that link it looks like a household with 4 adults such as mine is looking at an annual charge of roughly €500 but yet the government said no annual bill would exceed €278 or whatever they said.

    The first bill is in January, just after Christmas, January is a horrible month at the best of times without knowing that there is a bill coming and having no idea how much it is going to be.


    Do you honestly believe what the government says
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    tomhenryford
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    Gatling wrote: »
    Do you honestly believe what the government says

    I think in this instance, it was a desperate case of wishful thinking.


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    HeidiHeidi
    Registered Users Posts: 29,362 ✭✭✭✭HeidiHeidi


    tomhenryford wrote: »
    Yes I had a look at that but the figures seem to be for properties which haven't been metered yet but mine has.

    If I even knew that it was never going to be more than X figure, that would be some help. I know everyone's in the same boat but from that link it looks like a household with 4 adults such as mine is looking at an annual charge of roughly €500 but yet the government said no annual bill would exceed €278 or whatever they said.

    The first bill is in January, just after Christmas, January is a horrible month at the best of times without knowing that there is a bill coming and having no idea how much it is going to be.

    For the first six months the bills will be capped at the assessed charge - ie the charge that houses with no meter will be given based on the number of adults/children living in the house.

    If you use less, then you'll be billed less.

    But they haven't yet decided what the charges will actually be, so no-one can answer your question just yet.

    They say that they'll be deciding on the actual charges this week or next.


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    Gatling
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    4 adults x €10 pw more or less should cover the majority of the cost ,

    Buts its still all up in the air might be an idea to start watching useage op
    Put a set time on the shower use and so on,
    At least till we all know more
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    Ogham
    Registered Users Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭Ogham


    tomhenryford wrote: »
    Yes I had a look at that but the figures seem to be for properties which haven't been metered yet but mine has.

    If I even knew that it was never going to be more than X figure, that would be some help. I know everyone's in the same boat but from that link it looks like a household with 4 adults such as mine is looking at an annual charge of roughly €500 but yet the government said no annual bill would exceed €278 or whatever they said.

    The first bill is in January, just after Christmas, January is a horrible month at the best of times without knowing that there is a bill coming and having no idea how much it is going to be.

    The govt said the average bill would be €238 - but that includes empty houses , single people and assumes everyone uses average amounts of water.

    The Moneyguide site has some figures for metered charges too Here - looks like depending on how much you use you could be looking at charges ranging from €480 to €840 for 4 adults . That would mean a first bill of at least €120 possibly as much as €210. First 2 bills will be max of €482 because first 2 are capped.

    Why not check the meter reading yourself and work out your usage and compare to those figures in the link.?


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