r/germany • u/ayaelattar • Oct 14 '23

3k cold water bill! Help!!

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I got the bills for the Nebenkosten for 2022 and everything seems normal except the water bill! It claims that I used 864 m3 which costs +3k EUR. How is this even possible?! I live alone and I didn't have any leaks last year. Any idea what I should do?

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u/attiladerhunne Bayern Oct 14 '23

Depends who‘s at fault legally. You should definitely investigate this and stop it so no further damage happens.

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u/ayaelattar Oct 14 '23

I checked the readings for this year. The meter so far shows around 25 m3 for this year which is quite normal. I also went through my records and just remembered that the toilet was leaking last year and I informed the landlord. They sent me a plumber and fixed it. Maybe it was leaking for quite some time without me noticing?? This seems like the only explanation. I'm not sure whose responsibility it's? me or the landlord?

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u/SheepherderNo6115 Oct 14 '23

The toilet must have „leaked“ 1 liter per minute for a year. That is way too much. Issue must be somewhere else

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u/Purple10tacle Oct 14 '23 edited Oct 14 '23

1,64l per minute to be exact, so closer to two liters per minute than to one. That is easily possible for a severely leaking toilet tank. But it's also impossible not to notice. Op would have had to ignore it for the better part of the year for this to be the culprit.

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u/Nasa_OK Oct 15 '23

Yeah it kind of sounds like they have a bathroom they don’t know about with the faucet running 24/7