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Have you double checked the actual reading on the meter? We had this recently and they had read the wrong meter in the road!
eskay-
Yeah - its our meter :) the reading they gave matches it unfortunately
@Kurai not at all - I thought something similar at one point. I've messed around with stopcocks - turning the mains one in the house off stops the meter in the street ticking over. Turning the internal stopcock back on and the meter starts spinning again. So there's a lot of water going somewhere in the house behind the stopcock.
I don't know where it could be, there's no damp anywhere. The rate it's going you'd expect to see it. Got a chap coming with gas and audio equipment on Wednesday to track it down hopefully.
christianSpaceman
I've just had a catastrophic (4x usual) water bill...
I can see the meter turning when there's nothing in the house that should be using water - no taps, heating off.
I've checked that the leak (if there is one) is definitely after the stopcock by turning it off and seeing the meter stop turning.
I think I can hear water flowing through pipes near the boiler - is it plausible that the boiler would be drinking water even without the heating on? It's not been serviced for a few years to be honest.