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Just a trickle? HOLY SMOKES!
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| Whiplash 2006-03-07, 3:21 pm |
| I just discovered that a simple little toilet leak can use 8,000
gallons of water per month.
Yep.
I had a small trickle (what sounded like a trickle)..i thought ..aaahh
for 3 extra bux a month...why fix the thang (bad attitude
yes)..but...the shoemakers children have no shoes, the dentists
children have bad teeth etc...
well! that little stunt was running my water bill up, some 8,000
gallons more per month.
does that sound right?... i mean..i only heard a trickle...just a
trickle.
I figure if everyone will hit my paypal account with at least $1, i can
make up for all them triple inflated bills...
i had no idea! it's been trickling for 3 years, i just replaced the
junk in the tank..now it's not trickling.
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| Whiplash wrote:
> I just discovered that a simple little toilet leak can use 8,000
> gallons of water per month.
>
> Yep.
>
> I had a small trickle (what sounded like a trickle)..i thought ..aaahh
> for 3 extra bux a month...why fix the thang (bad attitude
> yes)..but...the shoemakers children have no shoes, the dentists
> children have bad teeth etc...
>
> well! that little stunt was running my water bill up, some 8,000
> gallons more per month.
>
> does that sound right?... i mean..i only heard a trickle...just a
> trickle.
>
> I figure if everyone will hit my paypal account with at least $1, i can
> make up for all them triple inflated bills...
>
> i had no idea! it's been trickling for 3 years, i just replaced the
> junk in the tank..now it's not trickling.
>
8000 gallons, divided by 30 days = 266.66 gallons per day divided by 24
hours = 11 gallons an hour divided by 60 = .185 gallons a minute. 23.5
oz. of water a minute is a pretty good trickle. I would imagine you saw
the water in the bowl moving.
Mark
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| Al Bundy 2006-03-07, 11:21 pm |
| M&S <no@no.com> wrote in
news:a6pPf.1386$sL2.36@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:
> Whiplash wrote:
>
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> 8000 gallons, divided by 30 days = 266.66 gallons per day divided by
> 24 hours = 11 gallons an hour divided by 60 = .185 gallons a minute.
> 23.5 oz. of water a minute is a pretty good trickle. I would imagine
> you saw the water in the bowl moving.
>
> Mark
>
>
Yep, 11 gal per hour. To me that's kinda hard to just ignore.
Whiplash: Might wanna turn the supply valve off and check the water
meter to make sure nothing is still running.
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| Whiplash 2006-03-08, 12:21 am |
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M&S wrote:
> Whiplash wrote:
> 8000 gallons, divided by 30 days = 266.66 gallons per day divided by 24
> hours = 11 gallons an hour divided by 60 = .185 gallons a minute. 23.5
> oz. of water a minute is a pretty good trickle. I would imagine you saw
> the water in the bowl moving.
thanks Al, M and S
Im gonna take these figures to the water company in the morning
oh neeeeeeeeeeeeewww, the water was not moving in the bowl
that's why i let it slide, i figured that little un-annoying trickle
was costing me maybe 3-4 extra bux a month.
the thing is..the toilet is so close to the claw foot tub...i had to
get on my back and sort of slide in between the two..in order to change
the valve inside the toilet
(that's why i put it off)
i cannot imagine that much water coming through a trickle
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I shut the main valve off...then I watched the meter...if it was
moving..it was very very very slow...i could not see it moving, i
watched it for about 40 seconds or more...
---
what about all you other dimwitz...any body got any dumb ideas for me
buncha non-fixin wannabee's breaking something up all the time,
overkill fixin...
over spending, sud sucking channel changing freaknet reading
unimaginative nickel holding up a dollar non straight line cutting
whole pizza eating 2 liter drinking average americans!
ain't nobody hearing me up in here
i can't get no help
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| Verizon 2006-03-08, 8:21 pm |
| That calculates to 152 'drips' per minute.
At that rate, it would be a stedy drizzle (probably the float to set too
high, allowing water to spill over the overflow tube, never allowing the
tank to shut off.)
>I just discovered that a simple little toilet leak can use 8,000
> gallons of water per month.
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| Al Bundy 2006-03-08, 10:21 pm |
| "Verizon" <webmaster@npcc.net> wrote in news:wQJPf.5432$CT.888@trnddc04:
> That calculates to 152 'drips' per minute.
> At that rate, it would be a stedy drizzle (probably the float to set
> too high, allowing water to spill over the overflow tube, never
> allowing the tank to shut off.)
>
>
>
>
>
What occured to me is how anyone can sleep through 8000 gal of dripping?
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| Whiplash 2006-03-09, 11:21 am |
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Al Bundy wrote:
> What occured to me is how anyone can sleep through 8000 gal of dripping?
actually it works the other way, waterfall sounds make me sleepy...
it's not a drip...............drip....................drip
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my water company has decided the water did pass through the meter...and
Im not getting any money back!
too bad sucker! they said. you shoulda fixed your toilet.
i couldn't even get a word in, but they will let me make 3 payments on
the backbilling..seems the previous meter was not working at all..so
they used my previous meter readings to get an average
i've paid 1,000's over the past 3 years, I wish i could find one angle,
one good argument that their meter was wrong
the average family in america uses 2000 ga a month, i was using 10,400
gallons a month.
anyone? anyone?
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| Just Fun 2006-03-12, 2:21 am |
| Measure the water usage. Run the water into a one gallon jug. Stop after
the meter reads 10 Gallons or 10 Cubic Feet whichever the meter reads in. Is
that the same as the number of jugs you filled? You may find that the usage
is accurate. --- Or not.
"Whiplash" <bigbadbarry@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:1141914761.829954.224690@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Al Bundy wrote:
>
>
> actually it works the other way, waterfall sounds make me sleepy...
>
> it's not a drip...............drip....................drip
> --
>
> my water company has decided the water did pass through the meter...and
> Im not getting any money back!
>
> too bad sucker! they said. you shoulda fixed your toilet.
>
> i couldn't even get a word in, but they will let me make 3 payments on
> the backbilling..seems the previous meter was not working at all..so
> they used my previous meter readings to get an average
>
> i've paid 1,000's over the past 3 years, I wish i could find one angle,
> one good argument that their meter was wrong
>
> the average family in america uses 2000 ga a month, i was using 10,400
> gallons a month.
>
> anyone? anyone?
> --
>
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| Just Fun 2006-03-12, 2:21 am |
| Now that you fixed the toilet, how much water are you using per month?
"Whiplash" <bigbadbarry@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:1141914761.829954.224690@z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>
> Al Bundy wrote:
>
>
> actually it works the other way, waterfall sounds make me sleepy...
>
> it's not a drip...............drip....................drip
> --
>
> my water company has decided the water did pass through the meter...and
> Im not getting any money back!
>
> too bad sucker! they said. you shoulda fixed your toilet.
>
> i couldn't even get a word in, but they will let me make 3 payments on
> the backbilling..seems the previous meter was not working at all..so
> they used my previous meter readings to get an average
>
> i've paid 1,000's over the past 3 years, I wish i could find one angle,
> one good argument that their meter was wrong
>
> the average family in america uses 2000 ga a month, i was using 10,400
> gallons a month.
>
> anyone? anyone?
> --
>
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| Whiplash 2006-03-12, 2:21 am |
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Just Fun wrote:
> Now that you fixed the toilet, how much water are you using per month?
Nice idea about the gallon jug...
it's too soon to tell how much im using now, i guess I cook go read the
meter, take a shower then re-read the meter.
I am curios
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| Tony Miklos 2006-03-17, 2:21 am |
| Whiplash wrote:
> I just discovered that a simple little toilet leak can use 8,000
> gallons of water per month.
At an old job in a building mostly used as a warehouse, the water
company didn't believe how little water we used, so they installed a new
meter.... BACKWARD! The boss got a water bill for about $10,000. It
took months for them to figure it out!
Tony
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| John Reddy 2006-03-29, 10:21 am |
| In article <QZCdnX_GvvKvM47ZRVn-og@comcast.com>,
"Just Fun" <JustFoolinYa@comcast.net> wrote:
> Measure the water usage. Run the water into a one gallon jug. Stop after
> the meter reads 10 Gallons or 10 Cubic Feet whichever the meter reads in. Is
> that the same as the number of jugs you filled? You may find that the usage
> is accurate. --- Or not.
>
Huh??
There's a huge difference between gallons and cubic feet. 1 cubic foot
of water is 7.4 gallons. 10 cubic feet is a shitload of gallon jugs,
74 to be exact.
Can you fill 74 gallon jugs without spillage?
Recently, I had occasion to look for a company to calibrate water meters
for a client. I found that nobody calibrates water meters because they
tend to be very accurate and if they do go off, it's always on the low
side so the customer is undercharged.
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