Man I have never even heard of having to pay for water, don't have to here. Seems like quite an easy thing to steal, must be a pain in the arse trying to confirm that nobody "borrowed" the hose from your front lawn when you werant home etc...
Man I have never even heard of having to pay for water, don't have to here. Seems like quite an easy thing to steal, must be a pain in the arse trying to confirm that nobody "borrowed" the hose from your front lawn when you werant home etc...
Everybody pays for what they use, one way or another. You just aren't sure how.Man I have never even heard of having to pay for water, don't have to here. Seems like quite an easy thing to steal, must be a pain in the arse trying to confirm that nobody "borrowed" the hose from your front lawn when you werant home etc...
75 posts and nobody has suggested going over and asking "Have you been using my water?"
1am, nothing. I don't see them out and about, they're probably asleep and it's unlikely he will water b/c a storm just rolled through.
Your meter, eh Mark?
Not everyone here is working in the geek industry. I've installed more meter setters and meters than there are posts in this thread. That line from the meter to the home springs a leak with the mundane regularity of a failed deathstar hard drive.
Unless the house is new, it is most often copper, and simply wears out, corrodes, gets bunged up by a root, nicked by the original installers, nicked by other utility guys, crimped, smashed on backfill with a rock........
So I also need an oven.bunch of small minded pussies on this forum.
get a camera and film him! check your water meter! wahhh wahhh
Think BIG.
Get your hands on a dye pack (the stuff banks use to catch robbers). Rig it up to the hose. Laugh at your neighbor covered in pink dye.
We've all heard of the umbrella assassination. Rig up a couple needles on the faucet filled with cyanide. Game over.
Dig a couple inches down under the hose reel. Fill with water. Add live wire. Enjoy neighbor barbeque.
If you really want to be elaborate: Buy 2 dozen eggs, a jar of vaseline, three foam pool noodles, and a blonde wig. You'll need a circular saw and nail gun also. Start by cracking all the eggs, mix them with the vaseline, and heat the mixture in the over to exactly 400 degrees. In the meantime, use the circular saw to cut the foam noodles into 8 equal sections. Now, put the wig on, wait by the window, and when you see your neighbor by the hose... shoot him.
Nah, this is too straight forward, there must be a more roundabout way to do it!!Turn off all our faucets and check your meter. If the leak/flow meter is spinning, you have a leak.
I think you guys might be overplaying the chance of a leak. I didn't see anyone ask about the location of the water meter. Any leak you're paying for would have to be between the meter and the various valves in your house. Our meter is actually in the basement, so if we had a leak we'd presumably know about it fairly soon. On many houses the meter is mounted by the side of the house and the output runs right through the wall into the basement. There aren't that many places for water to be leaking without being noticed. Maybe if it's a crawlspace under the first floor it would pass unnoticed.
My meter is out by the street about 75 yards from the house.
You have a leak, your neighbor isn't stealing anything.
It was directly under the driveway where some idiot installed it under the drive, running up to the main inlet next to the barn, rather than run 10 more feet to offset it enough to be entirely in the grass!
To top it off, it was only 1/2" polyethylene!
bunch of small minded pussies on this forum.
get a camera and film him! check your water meter! wahhh wahhh
Think BIG.
Get your hands on a dye pack (the stuff banks use to catch robbers). Rig it up to the hose. Laugh at your neighbor covered in pink dye.
We've all heard of the umbrella assassination. Rig up a couple needles on the faucet filled with cyanide. Game over.
Dig a couple inches down under the hose reel. Fill with water. Add live wire. Enjoy neighbor barbeque.
If you really want to be elaborate: Buy 2 dozen eggs, a jar of vaseline, three foam pool noodles, and a blonde wig. You'll need a circular saw and nail gun also. Start by cracking all the eggs, mix them with the vaseline, and heat the mixture in the over to exactly 400 degrees. In the meantime, use the circular saw to cut the foam noodles into 8 equal sections. Now, put the wig on, wait by the window, and when you see your neighbor by the hose... shoot him.
1am, nothing. I don't see them out and about, they're probably asleep and it's unlikely he will water b/c a storm just rolled through.
He knows as well as anyone that you're more likely to stay up late because you probably don't have work on the holiday. Why did you even bother watching last night?
Actually, a new development today. I found out someone took off the water nozzle attachment on the hose (last time I used it, it was on), and it's sitting on the window pane outside of the house. Guess where he stores his hose attachements? Yep, on the window pane on his side of the property. Roommate said he doesn't even touch the hose. It's pretty obvious that this guy is stealing water.
Now I just need a good spycam to catch him.
Maybe you have a leak under the house. You should call a plumber, first.