Have you ever had a water audit done on your home? If you live in Aurora, Co the city will come audit every possible place you could be wasting water and running up your water bill. The cost is $30.00. They will give you a shower timer, new nozzle for your water hose, and a measuring device to see how much water you are using for your lawn to keep from watering too much.
The best part is you will receive a monitoring device that reads your meter from inside the house. You can check the meter to see how much you used for you shower, flushing the toilet, washing clothes and running the dishwasher. Especially good to use to check for leaks.
Just brushing your teeth could use a few gallons.
This is what they check for:
1. Sprinkler systems that should be set to seasonal, 50%-100% (ours was set to 200%) 6 minutes per zone. Water a little in the front then go to the back. Let the front soak in while watering the back the go back to the front and the back a 2nd time.
2. Water savers in all sink faucets.
3. Shower heads should not be more than 1.5 gallons per minute.
4. Any water leaks. Water sensors can be bought at Lowe's for about $12.00. A pinhole leak will use 170 gallons a day.
5. Inspection of the water heater.
6. Toilets- leaks in the guts of it. Never put any bleach tablet in the tank. It will eat away at the plastic and cause leaking without you knowing it. A glob of it can get stuck inside the plastic tube and rot it.
7. Take under 5 minute showers.
8. Font loading washing machine. It uses water according to the weight of the clothes instead of low and high water levels settings
Our audit revealed we need a new water heater, new guts to one our toilets and a water saving shower head.
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