Mains water (provincial water works authority phuket)

[aussieinphuket]

Hi does anyone have any experience with having mains water connected to their villa, we currently have a well serving 8 villas but the developer is starting to rip us off on price i think we are being forced to pay thb40 per unit.... we have the mains water running past out development outside but one question is will they put a pipe into just one villa or will they insist on all using mains water. we likely can get between 3 to 4 villas owners to participate in the cost. our monthly bills come inform 4,000 to 7,000 a month... the other issue is when something breaks or needs repairing we of course have to pay for this ourselves while he just pockets the cash each month and does nothing... any info in regard to what an average family might spend using mains water running dishwasher, washing machines, showering and general water usage for gardens and cleaning down pathways... many thanks.

[fdsa]

24 minutes ago, aussieinphuket said:

our monthly bills come inform 4,000 to 7,000 a month

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24 minutes ago, aussieinphuket said:

what an average family might spend using mains water running dishwasher, washing machines, showering and general water usage for gardens and cleaning down pathways

300 THB

[Crossy]

8 minutes ago, fdsa said:

300 THB

 

Yeah, ours is just a splash over that at about 450 per month.

 

I can't imagine anyone having to pay 4k let alone 7k per month for water.

 

I hate to think what they're being ripped for electricity.

 

[lopburi3]

Here in Bangkok we paid 350 baht last month for 47 units of water - for family of 8.

 

Just remember if you are not using a pump currently you will most likely require that and storage tank as mains pressure will be very low most places.

[LivinginKata]

40 Baht per 1,000 liters is not that bad. Mains supply is about 20 baht all up. 

 

But I cannot understand how you could use 100,000 liters of water per month.  First you should look into the meter and any leakage.

 

As for water line go past your road end. We have that situation on Patak Road and even though there are many homes in our road, the water board will not consider a water line into our road. 

[schlog]

35 minutes ago, LivinginKata said:

 

But I cannot understand how you could use 100,000 liters of water per month.  First you should look into the meter and any leakage.

 

Now it's clear for me why bang wad dam is empty.

[lopburi3]

1 hour ago, aussieinphuket said:

any info in regard to what an average family might spend using mains water running dishwasher, washing machines, showering and general water usage for gardens and cleaning down pathways... many thanks.

As said how can your possibly use that much water?  When you say "washing machines" do your mean a shophouse full?  By gardens do you mean a fruit orchard?  

[KarenBravo]

You will have to pay for the pipe from the mains to your house and also a meter. Also, a storage tank and pump.

Obviously, you own the property, so, you may want to look into the cost of drilling a six inch bore.

You could also look into complaining to the authorities about the price gouging.

[Crossy]

We pay about 15 Baht per unit from PWA (northern BKK), last month we used 31 units.

 

There's just two of us, some garden watering but not much (we pump from the river for the main garden).

[JetsetBkk]

Lots of information here: https://en.pwa.co.th/contents/service/customer-guide#1

 

[aussieinphuket]

thanks for the advice and constructive comments from some. 

 

we did check for leaks everywhere but none, we had Chainaris Engineering Phuket come and check everything and they said no issues, we are sure there was something wrong with the meter so it has been changed but saying that 40 thb a unit is pure robbery.

 

if we put mains on there is no issue if low pressure as we have 2 storage tanks holding about 6,000 litres and 2 pumps for transferring and pushing through to villa....

 

we will go to PWA and discuss how they can put mains water into my villa and maybe one or two others the mains is running outside and around our development.

 

we looked at a well but they are quoting in excess of thb 200,000 to drill or is there someone else they can recommend we call as i have been lead to believe there is some mafia style control in certain areas who can drill for a well and who cannot... or maybe this is just the usual thai <deleted>...

 

[KarenBravo]

6 hours ago, aussieinphuket said:

we looked at a well but they are quoting in excess of thb 200,000 to drill or is there someone else they can recommend we call as i have been lead to believe there is some mafia style control in certain areas who can drill for a well and who cannot... or maybe this is just the usual thai <deleted>...

 

That is a good price. I paid 180,000 Bt 15 years ago. That price was for three attempts to find water. Water was found at the second attempt at 60 metres.

I decided to have a bore drilled because the hand-dug well went dry. It never went dry again (sigh). Good to have water security, though.

[LivinginKata]

2 hours ago, KarenBravo said:

That is a good price. I paid 180,000 Bt 15 years ago. That price was for three attempts to find water. Water was found at the second attempt at 60 metres.

I decided to have a bore drilled because the hand-dug well went dry. It never went dry again (sigh). Good to have water security, though.

 

Agreed .... I paid 160 K baht 23 years ago. Bit more expensive these days with need for water licence fees. In Kata 16 years ago drilled 3 holes. Not enough water. Paid 60 K baht. Got no water.   

[madmitch]

We were quoted 50,000 baht to get connected to the mains. But we don't have a mains pipe nearby so there's a lot of work. We haven't had it done.

 

If there's already a pipe near your home it is not expensive. The easiest thing is to go to the office and ask.