Water
Smaller bill. Same errors.
Water usually costs a fraction of what electricity does, which is precisely why nobody checks it. It carries the same slab structure, the same meter-read risk, and one failure mode electricity does not have — a leak that bills silently, month after month.
What we check
- Consumption slabs — charged across the correct bands for the account classification.
- Meter reads — continuity, and whether the read is actual or estimated.
- Sewerage and related charges — calculated against the correct volume basis.
- Fixed and meter charges — correct for the connection, not duplicated.
- Shared meters — where a supply serves more than one occupier, that your share is apportioned on a basis you have actually agreed to.
- Billing period — length, overlap and gaps, all of which distort slab charges.
The one that costs real money
Leaks show up in billing data before anyone finds them.
A continuous leak has a signature: consumption steps up and then stays up, with no seasonal shape and no change in activity to explain it. Overnight and closed-period usage that should fall to near zero instead sits at a steady floor.
Across a multi-site estate, that pattern is invisible when you are looking at one invoice at a time, and obvious when you are looking at every site side by side over a rolling window. We surface it, quantify what it is costing per month, and tell you which meter to investigate.
What happens next is a plumbing job, not a billing one. But the sooner it is found, the smaller it is.
Where water sits in the scope
Water is part of Stage One alongside electricity and district cooling — not a later bolt-on. In practice it is often the quickest place to demonstrate the platform is worth having, because leak detection produces a number you can act on within the first reporting cycle.
Add water to the electricity audit.
It is the same authority, the same intake, and it frequently surfaces the first concrete finding.