Todays 2 for 1 water related rant...
Leaks. My house is like a colander, I swear. As soon as I fix one leak, another appears. I feel like King Canute trying to hold back the sea. Currently my shower is leaking when I use it, bathroom sink ditto, and another unidentified leak from somewhere in the other bathroom, plus 2 leaks in the kitchen when it rains, one from a Velux window and the other is anyones guess as its the middle of the floor and some distance from door, window and walls.
Then Thames Water keep writing to me to come to my house to fit a meter - and threatening to force entry to fit it. Except as I've been telling them for 10+ years, all the houses in our part of the street are on a shared supply (of 2, 3 or 4 houses) so you can't have a meter.
Apparently if they can't fit a meter (assuming they finally accept what I say about the shared supply) they'll bill me based on the size of my house. Great - so I will end up paying more than I currently do, purely because my house is bigger, than my neighbour who has a much smaller house but twice the number of people living there.