€20 for a bath?

Simon Gruber Says

Did I hear right on the 6 o'clock news? They said 20 for a bath and 12 for a shower. I think decimal points were placed wrong.

Frosty McSnowballs

Sales of baby wipes are going to go through the roof.

My name is URL

It's gonna be .5c per litre so you'd want to be taking some feckin showers for it to cost €12 per go

_Brian

Simon Gruber Says wrote: »

Did I hear right on the 6 o'clock news? They said 20 for a bath and 12 for a shower. I think decimal points were placed wrong.

No.. its 0.488c per litre
I heard something like 25c per shower on the radio earlier

Simon Gruber Says

Their math was 80 litres for a bath at .25c per litre. Somehow that's €20

Hotfail.com

Sure it wasn't cent?

365 days x 4 people = 1460 showers x 12 euro = €17520 for a family of 4 who shower every day...

poppers

Simon Gruber Says wrote: »

Did I hear right on the 6 o'clock news? They said 20 for a bath and 12 for a shower. I think decimal points were placed wrong.

Depends on the bath i suppose but at €4.48/1000l you would need one hell of a bath.

My name is URL

Simon Gruber Says wrote: »

Their math was 80 litres for a bath at .25c per litre. Somehow that's €20

Maybe they meant per year for someone that has a bath once a week?

Simon Gruber Says

Obviously they meant to say cent. Probably gave a few people heart attacks when they said it though!

Yep, you heard right lol

I love my baths, how much will it cost me to have one?

Aspiring

Oh Dobbo.

Simon Gruber Says

Yep, they just corrected it.

Haha they just corrected themselves.

The Backwards Man

I'll be taking any future baths in the septic tank. :P

Hotfail.com

Strawberry Milkshake wrote: »

Yep, you heard right lol

I love my baths, how much will it cost me to have one?

16c I think according to some sources..

Sir Arthur Daley

Stick your pipe into your neighbours socket to enjoy free water.

wazky

Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »

Stick your pipe into your neighbours socket to enjoy free water.

What if her husband catches you though?

Sir Arthur Daley

wazky wrote: »

What if her husband catches you though?

Pull it out and run.

wretcheddomain

Just spray yourself with a €1 bottle of cheap deodorant - if you use a little, it'll last weeks and you'll save an awful lot of $$$.

henryporter

Does this mean the rise in numbers of smelly 'aul 'wans who used to bath once a week, but now maybe once a month instead?

Wishiwasa Littlebitaller

It'd be cheaper to pop meself through the fecking carwash.

Lou.m

I want to drown the govt now kill them Ironically.

Buzz Killington the third

Forget about direct costs to households. The price if literally everything will rise as a result of water charges as businesses try to recoup money.

Tin Foil Hat

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

Forget about direct costs to households. The price if literally everything will rise as a result of water charges as businesses try to recoup money.

Businesses paid directly for water anyway.

Buzz Killington the third

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Businesses paid directly for water anyway.

Don't think it's per litre.

Hotfail.com

Do businesses have to pay for both water coming in and going out? Or is that everyone? Or am I completely wrong?

I have an outside tap. Will have to put electric fence round that aswell as around my oil tank now

Sir Arthur Daley

Hotfail.com wrote: »

Do businesses have to pay for both water coming in and going out? Or is that everyone? Or am I completely wrong?

Depends how they get it in.

knird evol

Hotfail.com wrote: »

Do businesses have to pay for both water coming in and going out?

What if they run a pipe between both. Creating a circle. A perpetual motion machine if you will.

Tin Foil Hat

Buzz Killington the third wrote: »

Don't think it's per litre.

Whatever it is won't be changing. These are residential charges.

Buzz Killington the third

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Whatever it is won't be changing. These are residential charges.

Well then, I'll be making full use of the office toilets in future!

on_my_oe

I thought the average bill was supposed to be €240-€300?!?!?

I'm going to be hit for €450, because we don't have kids...

darkpagandeath

on_my_oe wrote: »

I thought the average bill was supposed to be €240-€300?!?!?

I'm going to be hit for €450, because we don't have kids...

That was figures pulled out of the air, They had no idea how much it would cost. Or at the very least stringing people along trying to make out it would not be to expensive.

MultiUmm

wretcheddomain wrote: »

Just spray yourself with a €1 bottle of cheap deodorant - if you use a little, it'll last weeks and you'll save an awful lot of $$$.

I am genuinely fearful this is going to start becoming a trend when water charges do come into effect. As if the f*cking bus wasn't smelly enough as it is now.

Tin Foil Hat

on_my_oe wrote: »

I thought the average bill was supposed to be €240-€300?!?!?

I'm going to be hit for €450, because we don't have kids...

The figures released today mean fukkall in the medium to long term. It's an introductory price. We'll meet up here in 7 or 8 year time and we'll know much water charges will really cost us. It'll be a lot.

on_my_oe

I'm now considering adopting a budgie and getting a PPS number for him

darkpagandeath

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

The figures release today mean fukkall in the medium to long term. It's an introductory price. We'll meet up here in 7 or 8 year time and we'll know much water charges will really cost us. It'll be a lot.

Yup, And will go up pretty quick after it's privatised.

on_my_oe

So anything I save off my water bill (aka sod all) will be put aside to buy a share or three off the Germans

MultiUmm

The water that comes out of our tap often comes out brown. Why on earth should we have to pay for a service that is unusable? It's not just our house either, happens all around the estate too. Water charges would be tolerable if the water from the tap wasn't (literally) ****e. :mad:

darkpagandeath

MultiUmm wrote: »

The water that comes out of our tap often comes out brown. Why on earth should we have to pay for a service that is unusable? It's not just our house either, happens all around the estate too. Water charges would be tolerable if the water from the tap wasn't (literally) ****e. :mad:

That's not what some TD's have been saying, I remember one going on about washing cars with ballygowan .

jjbrien

Any of those old water pumps still around today? Used to be one opposite my dads house when I was a kid would come in very handy now time to get these bad boys working again http://arignagardener.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/0056.jpg

Tin Foil Hat

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Yup, And will go up pretty quick after it's privatised.

Privatisation might be a good thing. Government monopolies, in this country, have always been an out-and-out shafting.

Satriale

i wonder have well drillers phones been hopping today...
... queue new law banning private wells.

darkpagandeath

Satriale wrote: »

i wonder have well drillers phones been hopping today...
... queue new law banning private wells.

Nope just charged for access to the sewers waste water.

Geomy

Isn't there a law where if someone called to your house looking for running water you can't refuse them.

A friend of mine used to give water from his tap outside to the travelling community, he told me its against the law to refuse.

just fill up at your local politicians home...

Hotfail.com

Can someone please answer this definitively: Are we paying for water already? Like, is Irish Water just a second charge on our water infrastructure? I do think we should pay for our water if the answer to the first question is no, but if the answer's yes then Irish Water is just a joke imo.

Capt'n Midnight

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

The figures release today mean fukkall in the medium to long term. It's an introductory price. We'll meet up here in 7 or 8 year time and we'll know much water charges will really cost us. It'll be a lot.

Not true.

We won't really know how much the charges are until two years after they privatise it.

Satriale

darkpagandeath wrote: »

Nope just charged for access to the sewers waste water.

I'd pay good money for Phil Hogan to collect it, the sh1te in a bucket.

Geomy

Hotfail.com wrote: »

Can someone please answer this definitively: Are we paying for water already? Like, is Irish Water just a second charge on our water infrastructure? I do think we should pay for our water if the answer to the first question is no, but if the answer's yes then Irish Water is just a joke imo.

You're right it's another example of the emperor's new clothes.

Its a quango, a dog with a mallet up his arse knows that.

It's jobs for the lads, we always paid taxes for water.
Tax payer's money was used to pay the guys in the coporations ans co council's. ..

Tin Foil Hat

Hotfail.com wrote: »

Can someone please answer this definitively: Are we paying for water already? Like, is Irish Water just a second charge on our water infrastructure? I do think we should pay for our water if the answer to the first question is no, but if the answer's yes then Irish Water is just a joke imo.

Of course we are. Water on tap isn't free to produce - but it has always been paid for by our taxes. Water charges without a corresponding equivalent tax decrease is paying twice for the same thing.

Hotfail.com

Geomy wrote: »

You're right it's another example of the emperor's new clothes.

Its a quango, a dog with a mallet up his arse knows that.

It's jobs for the lads, we always paid taxes for water.
Tax payer's money was used to pay the guys in the coporations ans co council's. ..

Tin Foil Hat wrote: »

Of course we are. Water on tap isn't free to produce - but it has always been paid for by our taxes. Water charges without a corresponding equivalent tax decrease is paying twice for the same thing.

I hate this place.