Hello everyone,
I need your expert advice.
I wanted to install an outdoor water meter for the garden and assumed—since I’ve had one before—that it would be fairly simple to use a screw-on meter at the external tap. However, after checking with the local utility company here, they do not allow such meters, even with a seal. The meter must instead be permanently integrated into the household plumbing system.
So far, so good.
What practical options are there if the indoor piping doesn’t accommodate this? The outdoor tap is located on the ground floor and there’s no separate supply line in the basement where a meter could be installed; otherwise, all other water consumption on the ground floor would also be included. The outdoor tap itself is a frost-proof valve from Kemper—could a meter perhaps be integrated there somehow?
Thanks in advance for your help!
I need your expert advice.
I wanted to install an outdoor water meter for the garden and assumed—since I’ve had one before—that it would be fairly simple to use a screw-on meter at the external tap. However, after checking with the local utility company here, they do not allow such meters, even with a seal. The meter must instead be permanently integrated into the household plumbing system.
So far, so good.
What practical options are there if the indoor piping doesn’t accommodate this? The outdoor tap is located on the ground floor and there’s no separate supply line in the basement where a meter could be installed; otherwise, all other water consumption on the ground floor would also be included. The outdoor tap itself is a frost-proof valve from Kemper—could a meter perhaps be integrated there somehow?
Thanks in advance for your help!
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hampshire5 Apr 2020 14:48tim2111 schrieb:
Isn’t it unreasonable for the municipality to demand something like that?
It may be incomprehensible, uneconomical, or simply exaggerated. Anyone who sees this as “unreasonable” probably has had a very sheltered life. Calculate the ROI for yourself and then decide—it’s not difficult. It’s not something to get upset about.
Can someone please explain to me in more detail why you would want to have this?
You would only need it, if I understood correctly, when watering the garden using the household water supply line so that you don’t have to pay sewage charges on the water used, right?
If I water using rainwater tanks, I can skip this, can’t I?
You would only need it, if I understood correctly, when watering the garden using the household water supply line so that you don’t have to pay sewage charges on the water used, right?
If I water using rainwater tanks, I can skip this, can’t I?
