If you’ve searched all around your house, and you simply just can’t find your electricity meter (sometimes known as an electric meter, energy meter or electrical meter), don’t worry. When your home was built, it’s most likely that your meter was installed on the outside of your property.

1m equals 3 feet and 3.37 inches.

Things that are less than a meter long: a pencil, a CD, a laptop, a mobile phone and a guitar.

1,000 meters

A meter is equal to 100 centimeters. Meters can be used to measure the length of a house, or the size of a playground. A kilometer is equal to 1000 meters.

It’s small, round and about the size of a tin of beans. It has a row of black and red numbers, which move round as you use more water.

Your water meter is generally located near the curb in front of your home although in some areas (usually cold climates) it may be inside your home usually in the basement. Outside meters are typically housed in a concrete box usually marked “water” (as shown in the photo) or in a meter pit with a cast iron lid.

To test the accuracy of your meter, use the following procedure. Run water until the last three digits on your meter reading are all zeros. Then fill a one-gallon container with water. The last three digits on your meter should read .

A cubic metre equals 1,000 litres of water, this is equivalent to 28 showers or 13 baths.

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In short, the law does not permit the removal of a meter in these circumstances. The water industry regulater, Ofwat, says: ‘Customers moving into properties with water meters cannot have the meter removed and must pay for their water on a metered basis.

Automated Meter Readers (AMRs) are clever things. They are meters fitted with a built-in radio transmitter, which sends your meter reading to one of our receivers as it passes by your home. This means that we can read your meter remotely, rather than someone coming to your home to do it manually.

Check if a meter might be cheaper Dig out your bill, then contact your supplier or bung some figures into the Water Meter Calculator helpfully provided by the Consumer Council for Water.

When is it a good idea to consider changing to a water meter? Changing to a water meter may benefit you if you don’t use much water. It may also be worth changing to a meter if your property has a high rateable value. This is because some water bills are based on the rateable value of the property.

No. While there are reasons for utilities to give cheaper rates at night and other off-peak times for electricity, I’ve never heard of time-of-use rates for water. As David Samules points out, you MIGHT save on your electric bill if you have an electric water heater and your utility has a lower night rate.

Single-use water bottles cost Londoners money. The average cost of tap water in the UK is 0.1 pence per litre, compared to 65p for 1 litre of bottled water.