Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Tradies next door using my water meter 3Apr 18, 2016 1:55 pm Interesting on how it would fit on to the water meter to stop it. Understand what your saying but in this case the underlying difference is they have a water meter on the left side of their block , clearly ready for use and are simply just crossing the boundary to use mine on the right side? GIven their still doing their bricks and i'm not entirely sure of water charges in construction, my estimate base don normal retail pricing is $20 to date, i have no idea if this would jump even higher before they even finish and so I didn't want to end out $40,50 out of pocket for someone using my water whilst theirs is sitting around unused, if you know what I mean? Re: Tradies next door using my water meter 4Apr 18, 2016 2:00 pm 8kL is quite a lot of water for a trade to get through. Are you sure it isn't just 8 Litres? Typically water meters read right down to the last litre, but might be a different colour for the decimals of kL. So for nearly 9kL, you'd have a meter reading something like 00008.765 You could attach a sign to the meter to say which property / building company it's for, but for most water usage it's a trivial amount of money. Re: Tradies next door using my water meter 5Apr 18, 2016 2:01 pm Yeah we used next doors electricity and our neighbour on the other side used ours. Apparently it's very normal to "share" around. There's really not much you can do. Re: Tradies next door using my water meter 6Apr 18, 2016 2:57 pm Same for me, our back neighbor's builder henley used our electricity and sheltered in my alfresco when raining. I was at work my mum was living at the time she was telling me what they doing. I didnt feel much of the electricity bill jumping up. But didnt raised it with their ss anyway i just want to put the fence in asap. Re: Tradies next door using my water meter 7Apr 18, 2016 3:12 pm I've got a picture but the meter has black and red numbers. Mine was black: 8, red: 73. From the water corp website my understanding was black represents number of kilolitres used and 73 the proportion of a whole kilolitre used. so my understanding was that represented 8.73 kL used? Re: Tradies next door using my water meter 8Apr 19, 2016 11:00 am Plug or cap the output side of your meter, and that'll make it too inconvenient for them to use. Tradies will often find the easiest route for every little thing... if your meter is capped, and the meter on their block is not capped, then guess which one they will use first. Sadly you can not prove they used all of that water... could easily have been kids mucking around turning your one on and running away. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . Re: Tradies next door using my water meter 9Apr 19, 2016 1:40 pm The reality is it's not worth doing anything more than you have already done to save maybe $20. I discovered once my neighbours house was complete that they didn't have power for the whole build. I caught a tradie plugged into my meter box once. They must have used my power for practically their whole build! Didn't even notice a blip on the build so never bother to do anything about it. Re: Tradies next door using my water meter 10Apr 19, 2016 7:23 pm Water bill came and i can confirm it did indeed have 7 kilolitres on it. So somewhere between the reading on friday (15th) and when i discovered the hose on saturday evening , they would have used nearly 2 kL of water. It isn't mind blowing the cost per litre ( 1.50+ a kL) but my worry is if this goes on throughout the whole build. Call me cheap but i guess i wasn't in the mood to pay $20,30 when they have a water meter on their side of the block. By plugging or capping your output meter, how do you propose that bpratt? You'd have to block access for yours plus allow access to when the tradies for my own site eventually arrive? Re: Tradies next door using my water meter 11Apr 23, 2016 10:25 pm SaberX By plugging or capping your output meter, how do you propose that bpratt? You'd have to block access for yours plus allow access to when the tradies for my own site eventually arrive? A screw cap or screw in plug on the output side of your meter. From the time you do this, till the time your own place starts being build, it should have educated the tradies on the other house that they already have their own water supply. When you start to build, just remove the cap/plug. I won't totally prevent them from using your metered water, but because the meter on that other block isn't blocked or capped, they will start using that one. Go down to Reece or other supplier, and explain your situation and that you want to stop them by capping your meter. Owner Building at Jimboomba Woods in Logan City Qld. Blog : http://bandlnewhomebuild.blogspot.com H1 thread : viewtopic.php?f=38&t=68283 . i imagine you also have another contract with an architect? and yeah, whatever other's said about special conditions and appendices 16 11110 Elvis has left the building... The site supervisor quit after 2 month on the project. I guess he was just instructed to bark at people, but didn't like when he was… 26 18610 Thanks for sharing. Looks good. The joiner has come back with a quote of close to 5k. I think we are going to not do it. Attaching panelling is something they are dead… 11 10086 |