Installation of metering devices for water is an effective method of saving resources. Installing meters is recommended to all owners. After all, this will significantly reduce utility costs, and their application on the scale of the whole settlement will help reduce total water consumption by several percent. Despite the fact that water meters are not so expensive, and to put them under the force of almost every family.
From this article you can learn not only about how to pay for water by the meter, but also how you can reduce this fee.
Installation and Maintenance
To date, picking up a meter is not difficult, since they can be found in almost every plumbing store. In most cases, consumers prefer conventional mechanical meters, since they are inexpensive, and give accurate readings. Metering devices with a built-in temperature sensor are especially popular: they only measure water consumption when the liquid becomes really hot. Here's how you can pay less for water on the meter. Thus, you will save yourself from payments for low-quality utility bills.
Installation of metering device
This procedure is carried out as follows:
- The specialist closes the water, removes a piece of the pipeline, and installs a meter in its place. If a wet action counter has been selected in which the mechanism is in contact with the flow of water, it is advisable to install a filter on the pipeline. The device is located in a place where it will be convenient to take readings from it before paying for water on the meter.
- Next, you need to submit an application to the management company so that your meter is sealed and its testimony is recorded in the protocol. After that, water consumption will be based on meter readings.
- The question naturally arises - how to pay for water on the meter? Several options are possible here: via a receipt, by phone or via the Internet. The last option is the easiest, because Internet connection today has become almost mandatory for every apartment.
- Periodically checking the readings of the meter and checking the correctness of its operation is the responsibility of your management company. Before you pay for the water meter, you need to be sure that the readings are correct. For this, it is necessary to timely verify the metering devices.
Advantages of installing water meters
Paying for water through a meter will save you not only the need to agree with overstated standards, but also from unnecessary costs. A monthly transmission of water meter readings allows you not to pay you for water supply in moments of your own absence and for your relatives who have left. This is truly a fair system that allows you to overcome the high demands of public utilities.
Accrual of payments
“Rules for the provision of utilities by users of premises and owners of residential and apartment buildings”, approved by Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation of May 6, 2011 No. 354, entered into force on September 1, 2012.
It is worth noting that the new rules largely cancel the previous ones, in connection with this they should be treated with special understanding. Payment for utilities is now charged differently.
For those who installed metering devices, payment, according to the new Rules, will consist of five main components. Before you pay for water on the meter, you need to find out what the sum of these costs consists of:
- DHW (hot water supply) - indications of an apartment meter.
- HVS (cold water supply) - indications of the apartment counter.
- Water disposal - indications of an apartment meter.
- The share of the apartment at the expense of hot water supply for ONE ("common house needs").
- The share of the apartment at the expense of cold water supply for ONE ("common house needs").
Paragraphs 1-3 are apartment consumption measured by apartment water meters. The last two terms are the share in the overruns made by the house: underestimated water meters, unregistered residents, leaks in risers and real “common house needs” such as watering the lawns, cleaning the entrance and much more.
How to pay for water meters
According to the rules, payment for water consumption is made once a month. You need to fill out the meter readings at the end of last month. Thus, at the end of the current month you need to take them from the current readings. As a result, the volume of consumption of cold and hot water for the current month will be obtained.
The calculation of the amount of payment for hot and cold water is carried out by multiplying the current tariff (per cubic meter of water) by the amount of water consumed (in accordance with the readings of metering devices). Here's how to pay for cold water on the meter correctly.
Sewage fee
Water disposal must be calculated as the product of the current tariff and the sum of the volumes of hot and cold water. It is important to remember that there is no need to pay for wastewater disposal for “common house needs”!
In accordance with the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 344 of April 16, which entered into force on June 1, 2013, wastewater is not paid for on one.
Overspending
The new rules, compared with the previous ones, are more progressive. However, the cost overruns, which today are called “common house needs,” will still have to be paid for (underestimated rates of neighbors' water meters, unregistered residents, leaks). Overspending is distributed not only to owners of metering devices, as it was before September 1, 2012, but also to those who do not have them.
Also, from June 1, 2013, another innovation was introduced - a limit on “common house needs”. Despite all this, the installation of metering devices can save significantly, reducing the fee for own water consumption by about half.
Payment by the meter - is it profitable?
Let's try to understand this issue. After all, installing a water meter is far from a cheap procedure. Will the installation really save your money? Consider, for example, the tariffs of several cities.
Novosibirsk
Water Consumption Rate:
- Cold - 14.21 rubles. for 1 m3/ h
- Water disposal - 10.90 rubles. for 1 m3/ h
Now we will find out how to pay for cold water by a meter in Novosibirsk. As an example, take a family of four people who spend an average of 12 m per month3 water. We get:
12 m3/ h × 14.21 rubles. = $ 170.52 for cold water.
12 m3/ h × 10.90 rubles. = 130.80 rub. for water disposal.
In total, 301.32 rubles are obtained for payment. per month.
Omsk
Water Consumption Rate:
- Cold - 14.14 rubles. for 1 m3/ h
- Water disposal - 15.12 rubles. for 1 m3/ h
Consider how to pay for cold water on the counter in Omsk. Just now, let's take a family of two people who spent 5 m in a month3 water:
5 m3/ h × $ 14.14 = 70.70 rub. for cold water.
5 m3/ h × 15.12 rubles. = $ 75.60 for water disposal.
In total, 146.30 rubles are obtained. per month.
Ryazan
Water Consumption Rate:
- Cold - 17.26 rubles. for 1 m3/ h
- Water disposal - 15.55 rubles. for 1 m3/ h
How to pay for cold water on the meter (Ryazan)? Let's say a family of 3 people, 9 m in a month3 water:
9 m3/ h × 17.26 RUB. = 155.34 rubles for cold water.
9 m3/ h × 15.55 rub. = 139.95 rubles for water disposal.
In total, 295.29 rubles are obtained. per month.
Filling a receipt
So, before you pay for cold water over the counter in a private house or apartment, you need to understand how a single housing and communal services receipt is filled out. Separately or in the general table, the name of the calculation is indicated. In the first embodiment, the payment grid is located at the bottom or top of the receipt.
Those who have metering devices installed in apartments need to fill out some receipt columns, those who live in a private house are forced to enter data in blank forms. The following shall be entered in the payment document:
- Personal data. If the information is not spelled out in the receipt, you must specify the address, initials and surname.
- Payment period. The year and month of payment are entered in a separate line.
- Indications. In the corresponding column, you must specify the data from each meter for the previous and current periods. Indications of hot water should be recorded in the part of the table where the letters "DHW" are indicated, cold - the letters "HVS". For the data of the previous and current month, one row can be allocated. In this case, the readings should be indicated through a slash. Although in most cases there are two lines for this information - “previous” and “current”.
- Date taken. The column should indicate the date, month and year when meter readings were recorded.
Places to pay
You can pay a receipt for water in the following places:
- Postal office. Today it is one of the most famous payment items. The calculation is quick and easy. Money and receipt are transferred to the operator. He prepares the payment and returns to you a part of the receipt, which shows all the information about the payment and the consumer.
- Bank. In this case, payment is made according to the same scheme as in the previous paragraph. It is worth noting that banks can charge a fee for this.
- ATM. Payment is made by credit card. In this case, the payment is processed independently. The card is inserted into the terminal, a PIN code is dialed, the “Payments” tab is selected in the menu, and then “Payment for utilities” and “Payment for water supply”. Then you must act according to the prompts of the system.
- Payment terminals. This is a convenient and quick option. The calculation is as follows: in the menu, select the tab "Utility payments", and then - "Payment of water supply." After that, the payer code of 10 digits is entered, and then the amount payable is indicated and the calculation is carried out.
Online payment
To date, to pay for housing and communal services, it is absolutely not necessary to line up huge queues at banks and post offices, while spending a lot of time. Many have already been fortunate enough to appreciate in practice the advantage of distance payment.
Before paying for cold water over the meter via the Internet, it is important to know that payment is made using VISA or Master Card. This payment option is very quick, so you can be sure that the money will be credited in a timely manner. And most importantly, virtual payment allows you to save your own time. This payment method is especially relevant for busy people.
How to pay less for water on the meter?
As mentioned earlier, new columns were introduced in receipts for housing and communal services, namely, “common house needs”. Now residents have to pay not only for the amount of water consumed, but also for the expense of the house as a whole. Despite the fact that this distribution applies to those who installed meters.
Instead of fighting illegal consumers, management companies scatter payments to other bona fide tenants. This begs the quite natural question - how to pay less for the water meter?
You need to find out if the land on which your house is located is common property. If not, watering the lawn and cleaning the surrounding area should certainly not be at your expense. Quite often, management companies raise water tariffs, despite receiving compensation from the authorities for this. Find out and act!
If there is a restaurant or a sauna in the house, it is worth checking to see if they illegally connected to your pipelines. If so, contact the procurator, because it is you who make the payment on the meter.
If pipelines flow in the house, then in such a situation the payment should also decrease. The management company must deal with current pipelines.Look at the contract - it says that the payment for water, while the pipes are being repaired, should be reduced. If the pipes are not specified in the contract, demand that they be inspected and that the situation be corrected. After all, you regularly pay for the maintenance of housing.
Somewhat more difficult to deal with neighbors. If your neighbor is one registered in the apartment and rents it to several tenants, while he does not have a meter, all excess water will be distributed to the other neighbors. Before paying for hot water on the meter, you should contact the management company and draw up an act about it, otherwise it will not be possible to reduce the payment. After that, go to the management company and demand that your neighbor get a fair bill for water consumption.
All of the above manipulations will allow you to slightly reduce your utility bills. Now you know how to correctly pay by the meter, and most importantly, how to reduce it. Therefore, you can safely put the meter on the water - it is very profitable!
