Just had the water company out to fix our supply. Seems the water meter was clogged with muck restricting the flow. We have untreated irrigation water as a supply, so not really surprising given the recent pipework upgrades they’ve been doing. The engineer told me they’ve had hundreds of calls in recent weeks from people with the same problem.

[–] liv 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hope they get it sorted for you soon!

[–] Floofah@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, it was sorted in 30 minutes. The engineer saw the poor flow at our place, went up to the water meter by the road, did his thing, and bingo, back to normal.

[–] liv 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Result!

Excellent! Having water to our houses instead of having to walk to a well or something is such a cool thing but it's only when it goes out that we really realise that.

[–] Floofah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know. Have had some outages for a few days. Filled a dozen buckets beforehand for the toilet flush. Another thing that’ll really stuff the country is if the internet ever goes out.

[–] liv 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, even ignoring all the business and infrastructure uses I think we offload a lot of tasks that used to be cognition and memory, onto the internet.

[–] NoRamyunForYou 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Somewhat related, but not really - Had our first watercare bill come through, and its 0. Apparently the previous reading was an actual reading, and so was this one, and the start and end readings are the same - Anyone with some experience with something like this?

I did read that you get "0" bills when they have previously estimated too high, but a bit stumped as the bill says the starting reading was an actual reading too.

Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the house was sitting empty for a while before we moved in? (as in probably >6 months).

[–] Panq 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone with some experience with something like this?

I had a leak in January that perfectly lined up with an actual reading. The estimated bill afterward was so high that the next actual reading was a few hundred dollars into the negative. I'd paid it because I wasn't sure if their leak allowance would cover it, but it did so we haven't had to pay again since, which is nice I guess.

Pretty sure we'll be back up to zero dollars this month.

[–] NoRamyunForYou 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty normal to have some "Zero" readings then I'm assuming? (Though your leak wouldn't be classed as normal! :) )