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11/05/2008, 9:53 passepartout Joined on 15/01/2008 Duras Posts 33 Re: water bill Hi Val-2,  how does one put a lock on an outside tap, we turn the water off at the meter, but anyone could turn it on again, thanks in advance    Report

11/05/2008, 10:47 Val_2 Joined on 23/08/2004 Posts 3,055 Re: water bill You can buy a device with a locking key at a good builder's merchants. We just simply have a removable tap head but then we are here all day and every day to prevent theft. Water theft does go on especially in the countryside where farmers have known to fill up their bowsers for the cattle troughs from holiday homes who left their outside taps on.    Report

11/05/2008, 11:12 Dick Smith Joined on 23/08/2004 Surrey and Manche (Pays Mortainais) Posts 8,731 Re: water bill Hi Val Do you mean something that locks the main stopc o c k at the entry point to the property? Regards Dick Smith Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground    Report

11/05/2008, 11:28 trees 2 Joined on 28/04/2008 Posts 65 Re: water bill  powerdesal wrote: I wonder if I am paranoid or normal but whenever we leave the French house for any length of time I always isolate the water at the meter outlet valve, similarly I isolate the electrics at the mains. Is this just me being odd ????? Me too, but I leave the boiler on frost protection, and isolate everything else via disjoncteurs. The water is most definitely OFF, however.    Report

13/05/2008, 8:57 jondeau Joined on 13/05/2008 Posts 6 Re: water bill The simplest way to check if you have an underground leak........ First of all make sure the kettle is full. Take a reading from your water meter......and then do not use any taps or appliances in the house for as long as possible, preferably overnight. Then re-read the water meter. Of course you may have to find the meter first.    Report

13/05/2008, 22:13 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 Nr Prayssac (Lot) Posts 2,952 Re: water bill  Dick Smith wrote: there is a about three quarters of a ton of water missing here I think you need to revist your arithmetic Dick: 1cu/m of water = 1000kg therefore 2 cu/m of water = 2000kg = 1ton. How much is unaccounted for again............800+ cu/m  My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

13/05/2008, 22:41 Dick Smith Joined on 23/08/2004 Surrey and Manche (Pays Mortainais) Posts 8,731 Re: water bill The point I was making was that it was a lot of water... Regards Dick Smith Nowhere is there warmth to be found Among those afraid of losing their ground    Report

14/05/2008, 3:36 powerdesal Joined on 07/01/2006 Sharjah U.A.E Posts 2,023 Re: water bill ErnieY, Check your figures. 2000kg = 1 ton ??????? how about 1000kg = 1 ton    Steve Sharjah + 50 (in France) ........................................................................... Roll on death.....Demob is too far away.    Report

14/05/2008, 7:15 ErnieY Joined on 05/12/2006 Nr Prayssac (Lot) Posts 2,952 Re: water bill Quite right of course Steve, don't know where that came from  Perhaps because, being of a 'certain age', I am an Imperial man first and metric man second  My doctor said one drink per day, I can live with that !    Report

16/05/2008, 11:04 ams Joined on 07/08/2007 Posts 273 Re: water bill Sounds to me that you have a very big leak. we just had our meter read and it came up as 220m3, that includes a s pool and we live here full time. Best bet is to turn off all appliances that use water for 12 hours, 24 would be better, take the reading before and after, then you will be sure if you have a leak or the meter is defective. If nothing shows, then it looks like theft, consult your insurance company, and arrange to have the local water company reduce your water pressure when you are not around.   ams    Report

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