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!
Snowy36 schrieb:
If I irrigate with cistern water, I can skip that, right? Yep.
We don’t have a cistern yet.
For example, last year we used 50m3 (1,764 ft3) of water in the garden. We pay around 2 euros per m3 (35 cents per ft3) for fresh water and 3.9 euros (67 cents) for wastewater, so double the cost. That’s why having a meter makes sense for us.