{"id":896,"date":"2013-04-30T13:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.livinghouse.co.uk\/blog\/?p=896"},"modified":"2013-04-30T13:00:48","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T13:00:48","slug":"saving-water-in-the-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.livinghouse.co.uk\/blog\/saving-water-in-the-bathroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Water in the Bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"

The bathroom is where the average household uses the most water, and just a few small changes can produce huge savings.<\/b><\/p>\n

The Toilet <\/b><\/p>\n

The toilet probably accounts for the biggest percentage of water consumption in your home.\"Modern<\/p>\n

The majority of homes in the UK still have old-fashioned cisterns that use an average of 13litres per flush.<\/p>\n

More modern cisterns only use about 7-8 litres per flush, while dual flush cisterns use about 6-7 litres for a full flush and a half flush uses about 3 litres.<\/p>\n

If you are not able to have a dual flush cistern there are still things you can do to reduce your water consumption. Some water companies give their customers free Cistern Displacement Devices (when we were kids living through a drought I remember my dad putting a couple of bricks in the cistern).<\/p>\n

The average home flushes their toilet about 5000 times a year, so even small reductions will produce massive savings. Most CDDs will reduce the flush by anything between 1 and 3 litres, achieving savings of 5000 litres and more \u2013 that\u2019s a lot of water!<\/p>\n

The other thing to keep an eye out for is a leaking cistern. Leaking Cistern can waste as much as 12 litres of water in an hour. So if you have a suspiciously high water bill, and you cannot figure out where all this water is that you are paying for, your cistern may very well be leaking. Below are some tips on how to check if your cistern is leaking:<\/p>\n