Everyone hates paying the high cost of water, follow this water bill secret tip and see a lower water bill, it works every time. We all use water in our homes and the larger your family is, the more water you will use, thus your water bill will be higher. Of course trying to use less water is going to cut down your water bill, but that is hard to do especially if you have a larger family. Everyone is going to take a shower or bath, which uses up water. Also everyone must use the toilet and so again lots of water use daily, but this is the one area of water use we can give you a secret tip to cut down the cost.
We all must go to the bathroom that is a given. It’s the flushing of the toilet that uses up the water. The more you flush the more water is used, so obviously your water bill is going to increase. If you add up the number of times a toilet is flushed daily in the average home after going pee, it is somewhere between 5-15 flushes per day, using about 2 gallons of water per flush. Also many municipalities charge sewer rates based on your water usage, so to compensate for this as well, we’ll calculate it at a rate of 3/10ths of a cent per each gallon of water used. So let’s say one person flushed the toilet after going pee a low average of 5 times daily for a year, that would be five toilet flushes per day times 365 days, equaling 1,825 flushes. Each flush uses two gallons of water, meaning he would use 3,650 gallons of water over one year’s time. Each gallon of water will cost 3/10ths of a cent, so the total cost for a year’s worth of normal flushing is going to cost $10.95 for one person. So if three people, it would cost $32.85 per year. In the real world the toilet is most likely going to be flushed an average of 15 times daily, so round that off to about $100 per year or about $20 per monthly water bill. This is for a small toilet using about 2 gallons of water each flush, there are more toilets out there that use 3 to 4 gallons per flush. If you have one of these, your water bill will be more than double of the cost of a 2 gallon toilet.
Now with this out of the way, here is the secret you can apply to lower your toilet flush water bill. First thing in the morning you take some Dawn Dish Detergent or other, then lift up your toilet seat and squirt the dish soap in a circle inside the toilet bowl. This will do a few things. One, it blocks the odor of urine and will not allow the urine in the toilet to build up on the bowl. So every time you go pee, you just do not flush the toilet, you let it sit until you must flush it like if you go and take a poop, then of course flush the toilet, then re-apply the dish soap around the toilet bowl again and follow as before. Using this secret method a larger family could realistically reduce their water bill between $200 and $300 per year, or about $17 to over $25 monthly.
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