LoveBWVVBR
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2005
We have been dealing with this for 4 months now. Our normal water bill is around $90 including water, sewer, trash, recycling, and city tax. In May and June our bill was $147 and $168. We called and they insisted that we must have a leak, but we did all the leak detection and didn't have one. We changed out all the outside hoses and the toilet flappers just in case. Our bill in July was back to $90 so we chalked it up to a fluke. We were gone 2 weeks in July, though, so maybe this really isn't a change over the previous month when we were home all month and it was $167. Yesterday we opened the bill and it's $276.01, showing 32,900 gallons used!! We were gone one week of that month also.
Again we did all the leak detection and there is no leak. We did notice the meter "jumping" repeatedly as it spun though (the slow hand that goes around isn't smooth...it's like a gear gets stuck and it "jumps"). We are assuming that the meter is unreliable but how do we prove this to the city? Are we screwed? We are to the point where we are checking the meter repeatedly during the day and taking photos right before bed and in the morning.
Also, there is no chance someone is stealing outside water. We have cameras on our house and they would have picked that up. We also live on a busy street in a well-patrolled town. If we had a leak of the magnitude of water they have us using, we'd have a sinkhole (we live in FL)!! That's enough to fill our pool twice over. Has anyone else dealt with this, and if so, how did you resolve it? I'm calling the city as soon as they open, or maybe even going over there so they can't blow me off. This is so crazy.
Sorry this is so long!
Again we did all the leak detection and there is no leak. We did notice the meter "jumping" repeatedly as it spun though (the slow hand that goes around isn't smooth...it's like a gear gets stuck and it "jumps"). We are assuming that the meter is unreliable but how do we prove this to the city? Are we screwed? We are to the point where we are checking the meter repeatedly during the day and taking photos right before bed and in the morning.
Also, there is no chance someone is stealing outside water. We have cameras on our house and they would have picked that up. We also live on a busy street in a well-patrolled town. If we had a leak of the magnitude of water they have us using, we'd have a sinkhole (we live in FL)!! That's enough to fill our pool twice over. Has anyone else dealt with this, and if so, how did you resolve it? I'm calling the city as soon as they open, or maybe even going over there so they can't blow me off. This is so crazy.
Sorry this is so long!