I'd like to be able to remotely monitor how much water my house is using. I would rather not cut into the main water pipe upstream of the water meter to insert one of the available wifi water flow sensors. Is there anything non-invasive that can be used - something strapped to the outside of the pipe (ultrasound sensor?) or some way of monitoring the water meter remotely, to know how much water is flowing?

Folks, Trying to get an idea on the motorized augers with a cutting tool. I have two blockages in a garden pipe. Good access to both and each will be a blockage of about 18 inches or so as I’ve manually augered from each direction. I’ve hit the piping with Roebic and…..the other one….Zep? I’m also thinking I could just dig up the pipe and chop out the offending sections and replace. Thoughts, options? I'm assuming it is tree roots. What would be the minimum powered auger if that would do the job? The rest of this post is nothing to do with motorized augers but had me gobsmacked. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Last week I had a very interesting encounter with a well know company with a Jetter. In short, what I think the fellow wanted to do was spend his afternoon on my property getting every entry point to the Garden drain system squeaky clean and then give me a bill for 6 or 700 bucks or more. His start point was doing me a favor of 500 (discounted from 650) for the first hour. I wasn’t expecting anything like this cost so I told him to stop there and I’d have to think about it. He then proceeded to run down the opposition, none of which I’d contacted anyway. I did say to him that if his office had given any indication of the cost I could have saved him a trip. We are talking about an accessible garden drain here, not a sewer blockage under the slab. Apparently the office wouldn’t have given an idea anyway he said. So off he went with, I must say, a very decent piece of Jetting kit. I would think pulling that around all day you’d want to find somewhere you could Jet for hours and make a tidy income. After that I did phone one of the competition and they wouldn’t give a quote or rate per hour either, so I won’t be going the Jetting route. I can dig the pipe up if needs be, the top is about two inches max below the soil surface. Strange, you turn up at a punters house who is not totally clueless about what the problem is, has two blockages only within a couple of feet of an entry point and you want to Jet the remaining 5 entry points which I know there are no issues with. I’m in the wrong job. People must have a load of money out there to give to these folks. Nice piece of kit though, quite a bit of monies worth. I’m sure it would make short work of the job but I don’t have that sort of money unless it was a sewer issue