On Tue, 29 May 2012 10:43:03 -0500, Steve Barker
wrote:

On 5/29/2012 4:54 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Mon, 28 May 2012 22:43:14 -0500, Steve Barker
wrote:




i've heard of very few, and seen even less places where the meter is
inside.
You haven't travelled much.

been in 45 states. only seen an indoor meter in person once.

You've been to the wrong places. Go to Philadelphia and you can see
tens of thousands of indoor gas and water meters. I lived in a row
house with 50 houses just on my block. That street ran about 12
blocks. One of many.

Or here in CT where I can show you thousands of them.

how the heck did they read them before the advent of the remote dealy ma
bobs?

Until last year I sent the town my water meter reading every 6 months.
When I bought the house 27 years ago I signed off on the reading the
previous owner read. When the guy replaced it [with a basement,
remote read type] last year he made a note of the old meter reading.
For gas and electric they would estimate if nobody was home to lead
them to the basement every other month. I never had one of them so
I don't know how long they'd estimate before insisting on seeing the
meter.

Jim