United Utilities complaint?

Do you have a dispute or a bad customer experience with United Utilities? Report it through our website to maximize the chance of getting it resolved.

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The United Utilities customer service number for bills and payments is 0345 075 0711, and United Utilities also takes email at customer.service@uuplc.co.uk. Its complaints page, linked in the contact details at the top of this page, lists a separate line for problems with water supply or wastewater. Have the customer reference from your bill, the property address and the dates involved ready, and note what was agreed on each call.

Bill or leak to raise? Put it to us as well, and we push the complaint out to United Utilities by email, social media and printed letters.

United Utilities handles complaints in stages: its complaints page says it first tries to resolve a complaint by phone or with a written reply, and if you are unhappy with that answer you can call again and the complaint goes to someone who was not involved the first time for an independent review. Ask for that review explicitly, quote the reference from the first reply, and set out in writing what is still wrong and the outcome you want, such as a corrected bill, a repair or a refund.

The head office of United Utilities Water Limited is in Warrington; the full address is in the contact details at the top of this page. Keep a dated copy of everything you send.

A United Utilities bill that is higher than expected usually comes down to one of a few things: the yearly change in water charges, an estimated meter reading followed by a catch-up bill, a leak on the supply pipe or inside the home, or, for a home without a meter, charges based on the property rather than on how much water you use. Read your meter and compare it with the reading on the bill, and check for a leak by noting the reading when no water is being used and again a few hours later.

Ask United Utilities in writing to check the bill against your own reading, and keep the reference. If you struggle to pay, United Utilities has schemes for customers in that position and a separate affordability line on its contact page.

Yes: CCW (Consumer Council for Water) handles issues with water and sewerage companies in England and Wales, including household customers of United Utilities in the North West of England. CCW generally expects United Utilities to have had the chance to put things right first, so keep a record of every call, email and reference number.

Bill or sewer problem to dispute? Bring it through our complaint process: our trained AI opens a case for you and keeps coaching you on what to send United Utilities next.

Be careful. United Utilities has warned customers about scam calls asking for one-off payments for drain work, pipe insurance or burst-pipe protection, including from people pretending to be the company. It says it will never call from a mobile number asking for bank or card details, and its staff carry a photo ID card on home visits.

Nothing has been reported about United Utilities here yet. Our research shows what typically goes wrong at water and wastewater companies: bills that jump after an estimated reading or a yearly price change, leaks and low pressure that take time to fix, sewer flooding and blocked drains, roadworks and repairs that leave a mess behind, and disputes over who is responsible for a pipe or drain.

Sewage in the garden, or a catch-up bill you cannot explain? Be the first to report it: your case opens the record for the next household in the North West with the same problem.

Your complaint gets its own public page on Complain.biz and we get to work: we bring it to the attention of United Utilities through emails, social media, paper complaint letters and other tools at our disposal.

And we stay with it after you file. Our trained AI opens a case file for you and keeps coaching: what to reply, when to push again, and how to escalate if nothing happens.

Yes. We have an active community of consumers, and complaints here are public: people who ran into the same problem with United Utilities can give you advice or back you up with their own story. A complaint with a community behind it is much harder to overlook.