Coalition Agreement 2025, New Building Funding

The costs are low at <50€ per meter every 6 years.

But that's only the main meter and the price probably only applies if the association does it themselves. In a rental apartment, there is also at least one cold water and one hot water meter, which don't necessarily have the same calibration deadlines. We now asked the company that did heating maintenance in the neighboring house and replaced the meters while doing so, so that there wouldn't be an additional trip and the small order would be worth it for the company. But they didn't want any additional customers. And the plumber from the local area wanted at least 120€ for the replacement. So <50€ is not enough. Next year our heating company will do it together with the government-mandated heat pump maintenance for our direct evaporator. Let's just hope the government doesn't come up with the idea of checking all electrical appliances in private households every 2 years as well. :rolleyes:

In a rental apartment, there is then at least one cold water and one hot water meter,

I am known to live in a somewhat special rental building. Among other things, I also do the billing for the building and we tenants have agreed with our landlord to replace these water meters only as needed. We are all long-term tenants and our water consumption does not vary that much. So if there are deviations, the situation is checked and then clarified whether the water meters need to be replaced or if the situation has changed. My apartment water meter is therefore already 14 years old :cool: Of course, this cannot be done everywhere, especially not with large housing associations, but smaller rental units could also come to an agreement and not always insist on their "right," but instead act in a resource- and cost-saving manner.

In a rental apartment, however, there are at least one cold water and one hot water meter, which do not necessarily have the same expiry dates for the calibration periods.

Not synchronizing the dates is the expensive part. If the technician comes once every 6 years for all meters, it stays cheap. The landlord makes it unnecessarily expensive.

Addendum: As a supplier, we have included the meter exchange in the price and spare the members and ourselves additional invoices.

Not synchronizing the appointments is the expensive part. If the craftsman comes once every 6 years for all meters, it stays cheap. The landlord makes it unnecessarily expensive.

Until a few years ago, this was almost impossible, as cold and hot water meters had different calibration periods. Now at least that is uniform. Still distracts from the fact that in all other industrialized countries the meters have a calibration period 3-4 times as long and it apparently still works.

Addendum: As a supplier, we have factored in the meter replacement and spare the members and ourselves additional invoices.

The owner/tenant still pays it with the basic fee. Only the administrative effort is lower. With us, the basic fee has just doubled, but the water price has decreased. And I thought we were supposed to save water.

Five years ago, our AZV still replaced the garden water meter themselves. Back then, you were involved with €50+ meter. Since apparently radio meters now have to be installed as well, you have to calculate carefully whether the garden water meter is still worth it at the craftsman prices. Here too, it seems that saving water does not pay off.

In the budget, approximately 1.1 billion each for 2025 and 2026 are probably planned for programs Klimafreundlicher Neubau (Ob das 300er auch darunter fällt?). One probably cannot expect a major success with that.