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  1. Hi Just an update, I received an email saying they are willing to pay for the damage and not deduct it from the cost of the mattress. Thats a result. Thanks guys
  2. Evening, After a nightmare during the order process my mattress arrived from Nectar last Friday. The delivery driver carried it from the van and placed it straight onto my open porch. The weather was horrible with sleety snow but the box was placed straight on my porch and I immediately took it inside. I took the mattress in its box up stairs to our loft room. As I was carrying it up the stairs to the loft the bottom of the box failed and fell through resulting in the 36kg mattress tumbling down the stairs and Smashing into my newly built and plastered wall making a huge hole in it and damaging all the edges through the shock. Upon inspection the bottom of the box was totally soaked and this is why it has failed. After numerous phonecalls that day a manager called me back and asked me to get a quotation for the repair. I have since got a quote from my plasterer today which I have emailed to the manager. He has come back to me saying he can offer a refund of the amount for the quote, however if I was to return the mattress I would not get a full refund. I would receive the full cost less the refunded amount for the damage to my property. What I am wondering before I reply to him is, because the packaging was not fit for purpose can I claim for the damage to my home and not accept this as a refund (discount) on the product I have bought. If I were to return it and get my money back I am still having to pay for damage caused to my house through no fault of my own. Please help me someone Thanks
  3. Thanks Bankfodder, First up I am not happy with the amount calculated. I have paid for every drop of water that has passed through the meter and this has served two properties. I am going to reply to YW by email again informing them I don't agree with the calculation of refund and also request information as to how they have calculated the interest. I will also inform them I have referred this to the consumer council for water and they are looking into this for me. As for the meter, I am going to get an independent quotation for the cost of doing the work and I am also going to point out that if this issue had come to light within the first 5 years of us living in the property they could have installed a meter in the house before we had our kitchen refurbished. Perhaps if they had looked into why I had such a high bill when I rang them around the time we moved in then we might have found this issue then. thanks in advance for your help again
  4. Update. Following Bankfodders advice on the 18th September, I wrote to YW and refused their offer of the refund on the grounds that I don't believe that it has been calculated correctly. I included in the letter my calculations (using the spreadsheet from this site) to the refund that I wanted and gave them 14 days to pay it. Today I received the email below and have a few questions that I hope you people can help answer My main questions that I need help with are : A: Does the fact that I have requested 8% interest mean that YW are required to deduct income tax from this? For further information the amount of refund I requested (before interest) is £2784.77 which I calculated by taking 50% of £5569.53, which is the total sum of all payments I have made. I still cant quite believe that they think I have overpaid by £1829.39 I have been reading OFWATs website and also referred this case to the Consumer Council for Water. sorry for the long post and thanks for your help in advance
  5. Hi BankFodder, Firstly apologies for being late in replying, work and family life have been absolutely mental. I shall try to answer / comment on your points above to try and fill in the gaps The meter was fitted on a dual supply approximately 13 years ago. To date I have paid £5569.53 for the water that has passed through the meter and served both properties. they have offered me a refund, which I refused as it was for around 1900 they have also offered to put me on to an assessment charge rather than proper metered supply, I would prefer to have a metered supply as simple maths shows that I would be paying less for metered water. I have sent them an SAR and they have responded. Last Friday an engineer from the utility employed by YW visited me, I was under the impression that this engineer would be looking at the feasibility of installing a new supply to next door so that the supply to them from my property could be capped. This engineer told me he was only here to look a re-routing my supply and when I informed him it was to look at a new one I was told well I can only go by the job sheet and the job sheet says a re-route. YW rang me today and left a voicemail stating that I had refused the engineer and wanted to discuss the reasons for this. I have used the spreadsheet CIsheet101.xls to calculate a refund that I would be happy with this is taking the amounts I have paid by DD and dividing them by 2 and working 8% interest out from these figures and the dates I paid each DD. This amount is £2784.77 and interest of £1567.91, therefore a total of £4352.68. Does this seem reasonable to request from YW, if so how do I go about this or should I go down the court route and if so how do I begin this process. I am getting fed-up with YW constantly ignoring what I say and am not sure how to proceed. I really appreciate all your help in this. Thanks
  6. Thanks Bankfodder if im honest ive not ever thought of recording my calls , or how i would I await your thoughts thanks Tom
  7. So , after sending a letter refusing to accept the refund that was offered i received a phone call yesterday and an email that sums up the conversation i had. I have copied this below. Good morning Mr Thank you for your email received on 16 August 2019.I’m sorry you disagree with our calculations and felt that my colleague didn’t listen to you. I understand you don’t want us to make any accountadjustment or accept our proposed solution, until we look at everything again for you.We’re committed to providing our customers with the highest quality services, so I’ll do all I can to help you and put this right.I’m pleased we had the opportunity to talk about your concerns and decide on the best way forward. As we agreed, here’s a summary of the issues wetalked about:· You requested details of your metered bills and payments (I’ve attached these to this email).· You don’t want to accept the solution we offered, of billing you on our ‘assessed charge’ tariff.· You don’t want to accept the goodwill payment offered £220.00 and feel you could have built your extension 2 years earlier, if we hadn’t charged youtoo much. · The meter readings we billed you for include water used at 74 Scotchman Lane, because you have a shared supply pipe.· You’d like 50% of your water and sewerage volume charges refunding to resolve this.· You’d like interest on your overpayment calculated accurately and based on 8% (not the Bank of England base rate).· You spoke to our technician and you said he advised it would be easy to alter your private pipework, so a meter can be fitted just for your home.· You prefer to pay a metered charge.· I’ll look into the points you’ve raised, and I’ll do all I can to work towards an amicable solution with you.I’ve taken the first step and I’m pleased to confirm that we’ve arranged a meter survey to be carried out on 6 September 2019 (arriving between 10amand 12 noon). This survey will be done by our service partner ‘Morrison Utilities’, and they can estimate what it will cost you to have the pipeworkaltered, so a meter can be fitted. Once I have the results of their visit,I’ll give you a call so we can talk about our next step.After we reach a solution and agree how you’ll be billed, I’ll be happy to work out a new interest calculation for you. We use the Bank of England baserate and this won’t be changed, but I’ll be happy to renegotiate a final settlement figure with you. If we pay interest, this will be subject to current HMRCtaxation rules.I assure you, I’ll keep an eye on your account and update you on each step we take. I’ll call you again by 13 September 2019 about our progress.In the meantime, if you’d like to talk to me, please call me on 01274 318452 and I’ll be happy to help. If I’m not available you’ll be able to talk toa colleague or leave a message.Regards Personally i am not happy with the email especially as I didnt mention that i would pay for any pipework to be altered. He did say to me on the phone that the pipes after the boundary are ours and therefore our responsibility. I did then point out that if this was the case then there is nothing to stop me cutting and capping the pipe after it enters my property. I am now going to try work out what the refund with 8% interest is from the figures he has provided.
  8. thanks Bank, thats what i thought although she says in the letter that they calculate interest at £47.18 not sure how. enjoy your holiday !! and i will contact them thanking them for the advance payment but in no way do i accept this as full and final agreement. meanwhile i will try to work out what i have paid when to try and work out the interest. cheers tom
  9. Hi, Just an update as today i have received a letter from YW and also my SAR documents came whilst i was away last week. Firstly the SAR documents dont actually have a piece that i would expect that is like a statement (table kind of thing) showing the dates we have made payments by direct debit. The only place i can see these are on some really bad copies of paper statements / bills that would also have been posted. Can i request this from them. Further to this i have today received a letter saying the below " Dear Mr ........... Thankyou for speaking with me on 24th July 2019. I'm sorry we've charged you for the water your neighbours have used. I fully appreciate how frustrated you must feel, epsecially when you've been overpaying for 11 years. By way of apology for billing you incorrectly, i've credited your account with £220.00. As we're no longer charging you on the meter that records the water you and your neighbour use and we can't fit a meter anywhere else, we're now billing you on an assessed charge. This is a fixed charge for homes which can't be metered. I've worked out what you would have paid based on our assessed charge. We owe you £1990.31 for what you've overpaid on the meter and an additional £47.18 for the interest. You'll receive a refund of £2257.49 in your bank within 5-7 working days. I'll keep an eye on your account until 27th August in case you have any further questions. If you'd like to talk to me, please call me on 01274 318013 Yours Sincerley." When i last spoke to YW on the 27th July i did tell them that i do not agree with the way in which the refund has been calcualated and that also i am not waanting to go on an assessed charge. what should i do next. thanks Tom
  10. thanks Ericsbro I realise the problem is that i have been (still am) paying for next doors water as well as my own. I last spoke with YW last week, the lady asked me what i thought of the refund that was calculated (show earlier in thread). I told her this was unacceptable and at the very least we should look at paying me at least 50% of what i have paid. I was told that this can't be done due to the fact that when the meter was fitted (2006) if they had known or realised it was a dual feed then i would have been billed on the estimated usage. They are not willing to put a new connection into next door and are insisting on me going onto the estimated usage billing system for the future. The annoying thing for me is that from the figures she has given me and roughly assuming that we have used 50% of the water that has gone through the meter then i will end up paying more for the estimated usage than i would for a meter serving just my property. ill update you when i hear more or get my SAR information cheers T
  11. mine just said "Under the new GDPR regime, you must satisfy this data disclosure request as soon as possible " oops might have accidently deleted a bit too much
  12. Just to update, I received a letter from YW that says "The Yorkshire Water Service Ltd Data Protection Team acknowledges your request on 19/07/2019 to access your personal data under the Data Protection Act 2018. We will be in touch with you within one calendar month. Yours Sincerely Data Protection Team" is this letter acceptable ? i thought that GDPR said it had to be dealt with ASAP thanks Tom
  13. Thanks Ericsbro I'm not sure what you mean by disengage the properties, i don't really want to agree anything with YW without understanding it and i',m also going to see what the SAR says first. cheers T
  14. thanks for that DX100uk ill use that spreadsheet when i get the information from the SAR thanks T
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