18 Jan 2022 11:30 AM:

Dear all,

I have been reading on this forum that many of you can not believe the price of your water bills and in many cases you will be right to question this.

We purchased our villa back in 2015 and was not long before we had very high water bills, one year was over 2500 euross with consumption enough to fill 5 large swimming pools. We tried all the standard checks like toilet system not shutting down after each flush and looking around the land for wet patches. We spoke with a local plumber who said on on site he had found at least four villa's that had a second pipe that came off the main into the property which was feeding other villas in the area.

We decided to run a complete new water pipe from the meter above ground and into our property to ensure no one could connect off without us knowing. Once we did this, our water bill dropped by 50% that year and we also rent our villa in the summer.

For anyone who thinks their water bills are very high, please ask someone to check the system and if in doubt it works out cheaper in the long run to run new pipe.

 

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02 Dec 2016 6:22 PM:

Hi,

I also have very high water bills for my three bed villa and last year had to have a complete new pipe installed as my meter was still showing consumption with no everything turned off. Also the toilet overflow was running and is a common fault found to be causing high water bills.

The other main issue is the garden water system as the pipe work and plug points often allow too much water out. Check all your garden pipe work and replace if it has been down for sevral years.

We had a extra meter fitted to the outside tap to record the amount of water used to top up the pool and also had a lockable tap fitted so rental guests could not just turn it on.

If you have an outside shower, you must check the pipe work and if renting would suggest a push button type that only stays on for a few seconds.

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