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You have an underground leak. DEWA will charge you AED30 to inspect the meter for a fault, and tell you it's fine. They will then tell you any leaks on your side of the water meter are your responsibility. You will continue to pay an exorbitant cost until such time as you dig up your entire driveway and garden and replace the cheap Chinese pipes the original developer installed. HTH.
Gentleman Geoff said:
Or Chilli has been round with a few empty buckets to fill up his pool? 
Reminded me of a few days ago when we had no water for 2 days. Couldn't even use the toilets and things were looking bad, till FIL grabbed a bucket and used the pool water to flush the toilets! There were queues out the door!Not been on PH for a long time - sorry to resurrect this topic, having just had two 2.5K Dewa bills (all water, despite not having been in the villa), a man from DEWA has just taken my meter away to test .... Even with all taps etc off, the replacement meter is still whirring merrily away....any hopes that I had a faulty meter seem to have vanished, am I now looking at a leak somewhere? Any thoughts? TIA
We've had this problem so many times it's unreal.
Another possibility to what Ian is suggesting is that if your water pump is also running with no taps on you could have an underground leak in one of the pipes to garden taps. Look out for pools of water in the garden and/or subsidence.
Another possibility to what Ian is suggesting is that if your water pump is also running with no taps on you could have an underground leak in one of the pipes to garden taps. Look out for pools of water in the garden and/or subsidence.
Thanks all - villa not apartment.
DEWA fitted a temporary meter yesterday, reset to zero..... when I got hom elast night it was already 533, this morning when I left it was 1453.... looks like a leak.
Maintenance company out this morning, opened the underground water tank and has said a faulty ball cock was just causing water to fill and then overflow into the waste supply. This would explain why the meter was still turning even though all water was off in the house and the water pumps weren't pumping. Replacement cost - AED160.
My next fight will be with the landlord I think for not maintaining his property properly....can see that going well!!
DEWA fitted a temporary meter yesterday, reset to zero..... when I got hom elast night it was already 533, this morning when I left it was 1453.... looks like a leak.
Maintenance company out this morning, opened the underground water tank and has said a faulty ball cock was just causing water to fill and then overflow into the waste supply. This would explain why the meter was still turning even though all water was off in the house and the water pumps weren't pumping. Replacement cost - AED160.
My next fight will be with the landlord I think for not maintaining his property properly....can see that going well!!
shirt said:
received my first ever dewa bill in my name this week. electricity - 130AED, water, 32AED, housing, 410AED. robbing poll taxing barstewards!
Wanna swap bills??electricity 634aed, water 719aed, sewage 79aed, housing fee 750aed
And yes, that grand total of 370gbp is for 1 month
robbing poll taxing barstewards as you say.
K50 DEL said:
shirt said:
received my first ever dewa bill in my name this week. electricity - 130AED, water, 32AED, housing, 410AED. robbing poll taxing barstewards!
Wanna swap bills??electricity 634aed, water 719aed, sewage 79aed, housing fee 750aed
And yes, that grand total of 370gbp is for 1 month
robbing poll taxing barstewards as you say.
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