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24hrs in one? Ha ha, let me see, start of with an early morning call around 8am, breakfast served at 8:30, doctors and medical treatment between 10am and 11am, workshop or gymnasium till 12:30pm. Stop for a spot of lunch, have a snooze till around 1:30pm, exercise till around 2:30pm, back to the workshops and possible visits from relatives / friends till 4:30pm, tea time with a selection of meals on offer till 5:30. 6:30pm till 8:30pm association with options to play snooker or table tennis, maybe watch a movie, phone home. 8:30pm retire to ones cell for the rest of the day and watch more television and partake in some recreational drugs.... Yeah that's going to teach them

I often pass the pub near Tower Bridge called the Hung, Drawn and Quartered. Which kind of sums up our history... Apparently they only did this to the menfolk, women were just burned at the stake for reasons of public decency!

Glad you have got it resolved, I'm still a bit miffed though as I don't know whats the point of having a water meter if it is shared and that they are going to estimate the usage for you, what about the other user? Are they going to give them the balance to pay? What happens if your neighbours have a leak in the future, do you share the cost with them, what about if you end up washing your new car every other day? Are they required to share the cost? Seems to me the water bill is based on a guestimate with no accurate meter readings, which makes having a water meter pretty much pointless.......

From my perspective business is good, in fact I would say it is booming, with plenty of orders for new electric heating systems as well as new enquiries coming in on a daily basis. I do have a couple of issues though, cash flow can be a problem at times as well as labour. I currently have more confirmed orders than I can cope with which I guess is just as bad as not having enough orders. I find at present I'm running around like a headless chicken again, spinning too many plates. When I set up the business 18 months ago, obviously I had to open a new bank account, the bank promised the earth but delivered nothing. The banks business advisor asked what the predictive T/O would be, as I already knew where the heating market was and where it was heading (still is) I told him what I believed to be a good estimate, I underestimated by around a 1/3... This years current T/O has already passed last years.

So there are lots of pros and lots of cons at the moment, any finance invested into the business was mine. But for me getting someone else on board there always seems to be a trust issue on my part, but it is something I need to do if I want this business to expand...

So we now have both a hangman and axeman hmmm

Its not uncommon for one property to be connected to another properties water supply. However a water meter will have one pipe in from the street 'the supply' there will be an isolating valve, normally with a plastic key type connection. When this is shut off the water meter must stop spinning, regardless if one or the whole neighbourhood are connected to your water pipe which comes of the otherside of the meter i.e. the 'feed pipe'

So if the meter is still spinning when isolated, it is a faulty meter or the isolating valve on the meter is letting by. Way to prove the isolating valve is working, is to shut it off, open up taps in your property and let any residual water drain out, shut the taps off again and leave for say 10 - 15 minutes, then re-open the taps, kitchen tap is best as this is generally closest to incoming main, any pressure or water coming out of tap, proves whether that the meter isolating valve is letting by or not. If it is letting by the water company needs to replace it, if it is not and the meter is still spinning then the water company needs to replace the meter as it should not be moving at all....

Invoice is in the post....

Happened to me last week, coming out of trading estate there was just me and another driver on the road, no other vehicles at all. Other driver pulled alongside, wound down his window and said "that's a nice van I'm going to smash in to it" driving of a bit shocked to hear what he'd just said to me thinking he was probably joking, within 2 minutes my van was as he stated smashed and hit in the rear. I then pulled of the main road to get his details and he just drove past laughing.

Having read the second paragraph of Rays post I thought he was going to tell us he'd been shafted and sold a stolen motor. Not in a million years would I pay 'cash' for a motor, not even from a dealer and I would certainly pay someone like the AA or RAC to do a thorough check both on any outstanding finance / whether its a possible cut and shut insurance job / stolen / and service ability... Might look OK and reasonable on the outside, but then again so did Dr Shipman! What I know about motors you could write on a postage stamp, I know nothing that's why I would pay for someone who did...

I've always had a water meter and pay around £86 every six months to Thames / Essex water, it was the first thing I did when I moved here 10 years ago. The nine other neighbours thought I was mad and swore they would never go on a meter... Their water bills remained at around £600 per year but gradually they have gone to water meters once the realised how much I was paying...

Can honestly say I've never used it, just never been able to work out how to set up an account..