DS left garden hose on for 36 hours, how much water bill are we looking at?

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Anonymous wrote:P.S. Goes without saying that your DH needs to tone it down. You can't expect a 6 year-old to be the last one to check things like if external water is shut off. I think your DH or you needs to take responsibility and realize it was your job to check that everything was turned off and put away properly. At about 8/9 kids can be trusted with that, but 6? They can still have huge lapses in judgment and should be double-checked when they are in charge. That's like leaving open paint cans around a 3-year-old: not his fault, yours!

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Lesson learned. Do not give a responsibility like this to a 6 year old. If it can cost you big bucks or cause big problems - that job belongs to an adult or should at least be supervised by an adult.

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OP here. Thanks, all. This is in Fairfax county. I told DH that I will pay the water bill this month. I was with DS and his toddler brother. DS wanted to water the plants, but his brother was climbing the stairs to go back into the house. I asked DS whether he turned off the water, and he said yes. I didn't check because I was helping younger DS with the stairs, so my fault. DH is still very angry ...

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We are in DC and had a toilet run for 10 days while we were away. Used roughly 60,000 gallons of water and the bill was $876. ::cries::

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks, all. This is in Fairfax county. I told DH that I will pay the water bill this month. I was with DS and his toddler brother. DS wanted to water the plants, but his brother was climbing the stairs to go back into the house. I asked DS whether he turned off the water, and he said yes. I didn't check because I was helping younger DS with the stairs, so my fault. DH is still very angry ...

Water in Fairfax County is significantly cheaper than elsewhere in this area. I'd imagine you are looking at around $300 or less.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks, all. This is in Fairfax county. I told DH that I will pay the water bill this month. I was with DS and his toddler brother. DS wanted to water the plants, but his brother was climbing the stairs to go back into the house. I asked DS whether he turned off the water, and he said yes. I didn't check because I was helping younger DS with the stairs, so my fault. DH is still very angry ...

It's not that big of deal for a 6yo to forget to turn the water off. DH needs to chill.

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Anonymous wrote:I'll assume a garden hose can spit out about 10 gallons per minute. That's 21,600 gallons in 36 hours. Arlington County charges $13.27 per 1000 gallons, so that's $286.63. Test your hose by timing how long it takes to fill a 5 gallon bucket and adjust accordingly. And check your water bill for the rates.

And is your yard or neighbor's yard flooded? That's a lot of water.

10 gal/min? I bet it's close to 5 gal/min than 10... Don't they also charge sewage fees also?

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Anonymous wrote:36 hours is a long time but I leave mine on all the time and it's never all that much

Did you not have a spray attachment on the garden hose.

For reference, I used an extra 6k gallons of water last quarter cause we didn't notice our powder room toilet water was running continuously.
it was like an extra $100, I was pissed at myself cause I didn't notice until after I saw the bill, it was barely audible.

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OK, this is what stands out to me: YOU will pay for the water this month? You and DH, with whom you share two kids, don't share finances?

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks, all. This is in Fairfax county. I told DH that I will pay the water bill this month. I was with DS and his toddler brother. DS wanted to water the plants, but his brother was climbing the stairs to go back into the house. I asked DS whether he turned off the water, and he said yes. I didn't check because I was helping younger DS with the stairs, so my fault. DH is still very angry ...

Tell him to get over it
It's water under the bridge

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Anonymous wrote:OK, this is what stands out to me: YOU will pay for the water this month? You and DH, with whom you share two kids, don't share finances?

Don't go there, PP. I don't get it either, but some couples roll that way.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here. Thanks, all. This is in Fairfax county. I told DH that I will pay the water bill this month. I was with DS and his toddler brother. DS wanted to water the plants, but his brother was climbing the stairs to go back into the house. I asked DS whether he turned off the water, and he said yes. I didn't check because I was helping younger DS with the stairs, so my fault. DH is still very angry ...

And sh*t happens. If you had gotten busy with the hose something could have happened to your toddler. Stuff happens for a reason. Unless you are a routinely careless person (in which case you all have bigger concerns), your dh just needs to suck this one up.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, this is what stands out to me: YOU will pay for the water this month? You and DH, with whom you share two kids, don't share finances?

Don't go there, PP. I don't get it either, but some couples roll that way.

I saw that comment too and wondered SHE will pay for the water? Weird.

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Anonymous wrote:OK, this is what stands out to me: YOU will pay for the water this month? You and DH, with whom you share two kids, don't share finances?

Yes, this is the bigger issue here.

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Side note- why don't they bill for water monthly??? I hear so many stories about people who didn't realize that a toilet was running or even a hose outside was on for months. I dislike quarterly billing.