How much water do you use in the average month?
How much water do you use in the average month?
Water Usage - My power/water company popped up showing my water usage from December 2023 vs 2024, it claims I used 24 gallons last year and 13 gallons this December. That can't be right... how much water do you use each month?
I fill water for chickens outside, water two small garden plots, obviously dishes, showers, toilet, bidet, and the washer machine should be using a lot more than that...
TBH, I just pay the bill, I don't look at usage.
Looking at that on the bill, they do something weird... they read the meter quarterly, but bill us monthly.
Previous meter read: 2596
Current read: 2623
Usage: 27
Sewer volume: 6Appears to be in CCF.
Great, now I can drive around wirelessly scanning these numbers and find out where you live.
/jk
If you find my place come in for a drink, I'll give you a dozen eggs on the way out haha.
I use 2-3 m3, but I live alone in an apartment in Europe.
2 cubic meter = 528 gallon (US)
I live in a 2 br apartment and use like 3000-4000 gal per month according to our water bill. Be sure to check if there is a multiplier or if it's in "units of 10" or 100. Our bill used to show multiples of 10 gallons but now it shows in units of 100gal.
I'm starting to wonder if my water is accidentally getting recorded for the neighbor (duplex) and maybe only the outside hose I use for the chickens/garden is getting recorded. December is fairly rainy, but even then I assume I fill 10-15 gallons a week just on the hens
Actually if you don't mind me asking, 689kw, in a 2 bedroom. This place forgot insulation, and you can feel/hear the walls move when the wind gets going so it may be hard to compare. Does that match about what you are using? I used less in Florida with higher average heat, but I also usually had an apartment where you get surrounded by neighbors that insulate you on 2 sides.
I don't have a pool or anything, I set the heat to 65 F and I don't bother switching it to cool this time of year. (It's easy to tell your insulation is shit when every house on the block has snow on the roof and your's does not). Thankfully we have only had 1 snow day so far here.
Sure no biggie, I keep pretty meticulous records so it's easy to check. My old place in the Boston metro was 4br and used 600-1200kwh, peaking in the summer. Natural gas heat and central AC. Now we're in a 2br in a complex and get more free heat from our neighbors and it ranges from 800-1100, with central heat pump heat and AC, but since the heat isn't gas anymore the heat is included in that.
I have no idea. No way to measure it, and the mountains around my house has a practically unlimited supply.
Your water provider most likely bills by the 1000’s of gallons. Do you get billed monthly or quarterly? If it’s quarterly I would say based on the little bit of information you provided, that should be about right. You may have just used more water last year when compared to this year which does happen. If it is monthly, you were using a lot of water last year, you may have had something leaking and had fixed the issue at some point. My normal suggestion when anyone asks about high usage, always check your toilets for possible leaks. You can get small dye kits to test, or if you have some cold/ room temp coffee, you can use it to do the same test.
I get billed monthly and honestly don't ever check into it much as the price has never been ridiculous. I'd get a bill that would be around $130 for gas/electric/water/waste removal this time of year and I'd say it was normal (excluded internet because tiers/varies drastically by location). But yeah, if my bill stays $200 and under in summer when I know insulation is bad (renting) I never bothered checking it. New portal gave me a thing to easily see it so I figured why not click, and boom, rabbit hole
I'm guessing you mean 24,000 and 13,000 gallons rather than just 24 and 13, or are you talking CCF or some other measurement?
Anyway, my partner and I use around 6,000 gallons or about 8 CCF per month on average and a couple of thousand more in summer when I have to water the lawn and flower garden.
24 seems like a lot, but does your meter get read every month? They usually use estimates and then just read the meter once in a while and then correct for it that month, so it's much better to look at averages.
It's not saying x100 or x1000.. which would be useful info. Thanks for your response!
https://www.cpws.com/account/rates-fees/
Looks like they charge based on 1000 gallon increments. Their website is horrible...
So, this suggests that you are using a LOT of water, but not nearly as much as last year. For reference, my wife and I typically use between 1400 and 2000 gallons per month.
If you login through the website itself it might tell you. I checked their site to see if it says anything about what unit it uses on their bill and all it would give me is $ per gallon prices for residential customers.
My two water tanks are filled every 3 weeks. They typically are only 1/2 empty. Each tank is 1300 gallons.
So around 1300 gallons every three weeks, around 1700 a month.
With two adults in a house, we shower (no baths) plus two dogs who get showered as needed. We use 10m³ per month. That's 2641 gallons.