When to install a water meter

Who is obliged to install a water meter

By law, you had to install water metering devices before July 1, 2012. For Crimea and Sevastopol, this deadline was postponed until January 1, 2019. Moreover, meters of both hot and cold water are needed.

An exception is made for houses deemed dilapidated or dilapidated. You can also do without a meter if it is not technically possible to install it. Employees of the management company have the right to draw up the corresponding act. You can also contact water supply organizations.

The counter cannot be set if one of these criteria is met:

To install the meter, it is necessary to reconstruct or install new engineering systems.
There is no place in the apartment where the meter is located in compliance with all metrological and technical requirements.
When the meter is installed, it will be impossible to replace it, check or take readings.

Leading lawyer of the European Legal Service Srbuhi Ivashchenko said that if there is a technical possibility to install a meter, you will be additionally motivated by using a multiplying coefficient. It is equal to 1, 5. This means that all your payments for water without a meter will grow 1.5 times.

Who benefits from installing a water meter

In short, almost always to everyone. An exception can only be if one person is registered in the apartment, and 20 lives.

Counters are beneficial here's why. If they are not there, for each registered in the apartment the water consumption will be calculated according to the standard. For example, for St. Petersburg it is 4, 9 cubic meters of cold water and 3, 48 cubic meters of hot water per person. There is a separate standard for drainage, it is equal to the total water consumption - 8, 38 cubic meters. In other cities, the numbers are about the same.

If you do not splash in the bathroom around the clock, but at least interrupt for sleep and food, then you have practically no chance of pouring out as much water as indicated in the standard.

In order not to go far, let's take a specific family of two living in St. Petersburg - my family. Let's calculate the possible costs according to the standards, based on the tariffs.

Cold water: 9.6 cubes * 1.5 * 30.6 = 440.6 rubles.

Hot water (including heating): 6, 96 * 1, 5 * 106, 53 = 1 112, 2 rubles.

Water disposal: 16, 76 * 30, 6 = 512, 9 rubles.

Total:2,065.7 rubles.

In fact, if you take payments for the last three months, we consistently consume 3 cubic meters of hot water and an average of 8 cubic meters of cold water, although we do not limit ourselves in anything and one of us works from home. The result is:

8 * 30, 6 + 3 * 106, 53 + 11 * 30, 6 = 900, 9 rubles.

The monthly difference is almost to buy two meters. So with a metering device, you will quickly come to a plus and start saving. Especially if you are trying to waste less water or rarely show up at home.

What is the bottom line

By law, you must already have meters.
If there is no metering device, but it can be installed, you overpay for water at least one and a half times.
If it is not technically possible to supply the meter, and this is confirmed by the relevant act, you pay according to the standard.
It is beneficial to install a water meter for almost everyone and always. And if you also use water sparingly, the savings will be quite impressive.
The less water you spend, the more you overpay if you haven't installed a meter.