Sometimes you have a hard time getting your head around meter readings and the numbers you need to look for. In this article, we bring you the answer to your question of how to read your own natural gas meter. Read the article until the end to know more about it.
How can you read your gas meter?
Reading your own gas meters is likely to bring down your electric or gas energy use because then, you know how much of energy/gas is being used. When the heating season arrives, you must necessarily make a comparison between the number of heating degree days for the same person, and likewise, when the weather is colder, compare the energy being employed to the cooling degree days.
Further, the best and simplest measure of the impact of weather on the amount of energy that is being consumed would be heating and cooling degree days. One can reach this by using the average temperature of the day and anything below 65°F would stand for one heating degree day, likewise, anything beyond 65°F would be taken as one cooling degree day. Furthermore, one’s heating and cooling use must necessarily go hand in hand with the number of heating and cooling degree days for the time span at issue. Now, one can set the figures against the figures of the last year to come about any definite ground.
Alternatively, one could either visit their local utility companies to send a person to read your meter or call them up. With things shifting to the online mode, one can even avail the benefit of sharing the meter figures with the person via texts.
Taking the former scenario as the case, if your monthly information cuts the mark, your utility bills would have all the pertinent details you may be needing. Keep in mind, the figures being noted down are actual and not speculated ones. Also, stay updated on the date when your meter is being read or examined as the time period between the readings could stretch beyond the surmised one. Reach out to your local authority in case of any discrepancy in this sense.
Natural Gas meters
This paragraph will be diving straight into how one can go about their gas meter reading. But before that, we must fill you in on how it is measured. Natural gas is often measured by the cubic foot, and one is billed by the thousands of cubic feet(MCF) or less than that i.e. hundreds of cubic feet(CCF). One is very likely to be billed by the therm, which is more or less the same as a CCF or 100 cubic feet. In order to come up with figures of energy or gas you have used, the utility states a meter between the two points, the electric power or gas lines of your resident/main apartment and the point where it gets distributed to different houses.
Talking of a gas meter, these small reading boxes are operated by the force of the gas that’s rushing through the pipe, and tends to speed up as the flow increases/comes in large quantities. The dialers work in the way that every time the dialer that represents a lower value completes a revolution, the dialer or pointer around the higher value steps up with one digit. CHINT gas meter has these pointers too.
The customers are advised that whenever they are reading the gas meter, they are required to read and simultaneously write the figures down so there is no confusion later on. And it is crucial to have the figures written down on both the meters for an accurate and error-free reading.
Final words
The aforementioned articles speak of natural gas meters and how any homeowner( or yocan carry forth the task of reading and taking down the figures. One can go over the article and read it line by line to understand how the reading and meter per se works. The article also did a brief introduction into the background of meter readings, how to identify the dialer or pointer, what happens when the pointer with higher / lower value goes up and others.
