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DEWA Charges excessive

derien

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Latest post on 12 September 2011 - 09:38

Hi ladies,

Can someone please tell me how much we should be paying in monthly Dewa charges for a 4 bedroom villa in the Meadows with a small garden ( grass)?

Since June, our bills have been on average between 5000 and 5600 AED per month. We just got the August one and it's 4600 but that\s because only the maid was in the house for 3 weeks.

I can't understand how the charges can be so high. Anyone else living in a villa with charges like this?

TIA

KhalifaAlblooshi

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Latest post on 01 October 2011 - 07:42

So my DEWA bills have consistently been about 3000 Dhs, which we thought was excessive, but reasonable given what everyone else was using - But my DH just ran into the DEWA man outside who was changing the water meter - because apparently it hasn't been working! Does that mean our bills are going to double??? Our DEWA meter was changed in early August but the next bill was still around the same as the previous months - I was very worried that it might have doubled!

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glamsara

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Latest post on 30 September 2011 - 22:32

Dewan are rip offs.we recently moved in a villa on jumeirah and our bill for the past 6months is 3000dh???keeping in mind we only use de upstairs room,an office and a living room.it's just me and him so seriously they are rip offs.before when we stayed in marina our bill was max400dh per month for a 2bedroom ap. I put a complain nobody cared

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edna.welthorpe36638

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Latest post on 30 September 2011 - 10:40

I've also noticed that the housing fee is not charged if your landlord is a local........ This is a common misconception. The bottom line is that ALL expats, no matter where they live or who their landlord is or whether they own their own home, are supposed to pay the housing fee, but the system is such an inefficient mess that some people never get charged and other people get hit as soon as they arrive. To give you an idea of how inefficient the system is, the law requiring all expats to pay the housing fee has existed for over 10 years, but none of the government departments wanted to be the ones responsible for collecting it. In the end DEWA was forced into it, and only started collecting seriously about 5 years ago.

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clindsey47117

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Latest post on 29 September 2011 - 11:54

We were facing the same issue for our 3600 sq ft villa on The Palm. Our bill was >4500 AED and was split equally between electricity and water. We had 2 major issues: First, our water tank was leaking due to a broken ball valve. I understand that this is a very common issue as the water in Dubai is fairly corrosive from all the salt. Second issue was that our water pumps were mis-wired and the pumps were running day and night causing high electrical usage. The ball valve was fixed in 1 hour, 400 Dhm. LL fixed the electrical issue, but it took no more than 30 min. I can highly recommend ToolTime @ 800 88 - they are amazing and worth the callout if you can cut your DEWA bill in half.

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Green-ish

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Latest post on 29 September 2011 - 11:17

Why are the houses in areas such as Barsha and Jumeirah that have pools etc less than what we are paying in the Meadows? I just don't understand it. There is definitely something fishy going on Because locals live there and own them. Expats can't own the freehold there so lower rates apply to suit the locals. Our bills in Mirdif (lots of locals) were only marginally lower than our much larger villa in Silicon Oasis (mostly expats). Some tenants pay housing fees in their locally owned villas, others don't. There is just no transparency and no one set of rules that seems to apply.

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guinness24707

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Latest post on 29 September 2011 - 11:13

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spongemonkey980

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Latest post on 19 September 2011 - 14:54

I've just been looking at our own DEWA bill (Meadows 9, 3 bed, home study, unused maid's room, small grassy garden, no pool). It's about AED3000, including housing fee. The water part is bad enough, at 640 it's gone down a bit from last month, but the electricity is outrageous and has been creeping up all summer. I'm hoping there'll be a pleasant change when we stop having to use the aircon, but of course, DEWA's prices increased by 15% in January anyway. Sorry not to be more help, just a bit of empathy, really.. edited by simpleasabc on 12/09/2011 We have 4 bed and maid. While everyone was away in the Summer except the maid and animals, the bills were about 800 dhs for electricity but we did not have a/c on everywhere except maid's quarters and in rooms when she worked there. Irrigation was off as has broken and hand watering was being done by gardener. Grass is rubbish but it always is after the Summer.

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october21468

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Latest post on 19 September 2011 - 14:14

Signature villa on Palm - no pool heater or chiller and they have small gardens = 7000 aed a month. Rented a canal cove home on the palm (HALF the size at least, communal garden and communal pool that we don't pay for) = 6500 aed a month. WTF???????? Expat pay more in expat areas than in other areas. I've also noticed that the housing fee is not charged if your landlord is a local........ we pay housing in Barsha - we didn't on our first Barsha villa but were caught out for it when we moved. It's local owned.

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Nobbles31185

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Latest post on 19 September 2011 - 14:11

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Nobbles31185

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Latest post on 19 September 2011 - 14:11

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october21468

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Latest post on 19 September 2011 - 13:48

Why are the houses in areas such as Barsha and Jumeirah that have pools etc less than what we are paying in the Meadows? I just don't understand it. There is definitely something fishy going on We've been doing sums recently re DEWA - our average bill (excluding housing fee) for our villa in Barhsa which is humungous with a huge garden (lots of grass) and a pool is just under 3000 - average is for the last 12 months - Sep10 to Aug11. The first 4 months were without the fuel surcharge.

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derien

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Latest post on 19 September 2011 - 13:17

Why are the houses in areas such as Barsha and Jumeirah that have pools etc less than what we are paying in the Meadows? I just don't understand it. There is definitely something fishy going on

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Foodfan46637

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Latest post on 19 September 2011 - 12:45

Looking for some advice, comparables in Motor City. Huge water meter reading problem with a 1 bed in Motor City, whooping 2,300dhs for 7 weeks! Motor City 1 bed Breakdown: Electricity: 102 (rate 23 green) Water: 1,794 (rate 3.5 green, 4 yellow, 4.6 orange) Sewage: 188 Housing fee: 216 JBR 2 bed Breakdown: Electricity/Water/Sewage: 153 to 295 Housing fee: 480 JBR 4 bed plus maid's Duplex: 1,500 to 2,000 I filed a "high consumption" complaint with their High consumption department over 1 month ago and have only received disconnection notices if I don't pay my bill. I visited their Jumeirah office only to be told to go to headquarters in Health Care City. After waiting for 2 hours at HQ, I was told to pay part of the bill and "will take some time", in addition to the standard random remarks like "its amount the owner or old tenant owes but got charged to you". They did admit to the meter reading being way, way off base for my apartment size yet no pressing urgency to fix it. Via email I received one apologetic email and promise to take care of it in 3 days, over 1 week later, nothing.

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