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Holiday Home Water Charges

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  • 01-10-2014 8:36pm
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    blackbox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,318 ✭✭✭


    It looks like you are better off NOT to register a holiday home (with meter) for water charges unless you use a lot of water there.

    If you register and declare it as a non-primary residence you will be charged EUR 125.

    If you don't register you will be charged on actual usage.

    EUR 125 would cover just over 25 m3 (@ 4.88 per m3 to cover supply and waste) and they say that an adult uses 66 m3 in a permanently occupied house.

    Have I got this right?
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    MouseTail
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    Yes, that's my reading too (if the holiday home is metered). If its not metered, you are much better off with the standing rather than the assessed charge.


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    Seaniemac
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    Hi, What it you have a holiday home and you are anxious to rent it out for, say, six months of the year. What is the best/right thing to do in that case????


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    MouseTail
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    Obviously the flat rate, but I don't know what Irish Water's definition of a holiday home is. Holiday homes deemed commercial are subject to commercial water rates, and have been for some time. I would tread carefully.


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    plodder
    Registered Users Posts: 7,228 ✭✭✭plodder


    blackbox wrote: »
    If you register and declare it as a non-primary residence you will be charged EUR 125.
    or EUR 62.50, if on a septic tank.


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    blackbox
    Registered Users Posts: 4,318 ✭✭✭blackbox


    MouseTail wrote: »
    Obviously the flat rate, but I don't know what Irish Water's definition of a holiday home is. Holiday homes deemed commercial are subject to commercial water rates, and have been for some time. I would tread carefully.

    The question that Irish water ask is if the house is permanently occupied. As long as you use it yourself some of the time, I wouldn't expect it to be deemed commercial*. If commercial, I guess you would also have a commercial mortgage on it (if any).

    *not expert advice!


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