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Reading Your Meter

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Reading Your Gas Meter

 

Gas meters measure the amount of gas used by counting the filling and emptying of compartments inside the meter. To find out how much gas was used over a certain period of time – such as one day or over a billing period – take a reading at the beginning of the period and again at the end. The difference between the two readings is the amount of gas used.

 

Residential gas meters have one or two dials marked 10 feet or less. These should not be read. They are for testing only.

 

The dials that record the amount of gas used are the three, four, or sometimes five – grouped together – that are marked one thousand and over. Notice that each dial is numbered in the opposite direction from the dial next to it.

 

Although your meter dials may not look quite like the dials shown below, these instructions can be used to read most residential meters. Each dial represents a single number in the reading.

 

Read the meter dials right to left, writing down the numbers in the same order – right to left. If the hand points between tow numbers, always use the lower number. When a hand points between “9” and “0” always read it as “9”.

 

 

 

The correct reading for this meter is 6664. This means 6664 hundred cubic feet of gas has passed through the meter since all dials were zero.

 

There is one more thing to reading your meter. If a hand is directly on a number and you don’t know if the hand has passed or not, then do this. Look at the dial to the immediate right. Has the hand passed “0”?

 

 

If the dial to the immediate right has passed “0”, write down the number the hand on the left is pointing to. In this case “7”. The reading of these two dials would be “70”.

 

If the dial on the immediate right has not passed “0”, write down the number the dial on the left has just passed. In this case “6”. The reading of these two dials would be “69”.