How to read my gas meter

DrDaz

I have currently moved into a flat and for the first time
in my life I am entering the world of utility companies and
their bizzare billing rituals.

Anyway I'm a little confused about my gas meter. It is a siemens
digital type with 8 digits, metered in cubic metres.

On the first day the meter read 06461449, three days later it read
06464276, 2827 cubic metres of gas used.

Looking on the internet for typical prices of gas per unit I found
EBICo's Equigas tarrif charges 3.675 pence per KWh.

So converting 2827 cubic meters to KWh, multiply by 11.5 (rough conversion
from internet) gives 32510.5 KWh. This seems like a hell of a lot for
three days use of a combi boiler (no radiators on), just washing up
and a shower each day. This would cost over £1194 for three days.

I know that the gas prices have gone up over the last few years but
that can't be right can it.

All the advice on the net about how to read you gas meter assume you
either have a set of dials some black for whole units and and a couple
of red ones to indicate fractions of a unit.

Or they assume that you have a mechanical digital type (like the odometer
on a car) where digits wind round. Again they seem to assume there are a
set of black ones for whole units and a couple of red ones for fractions
of a unit.

Mine is totally digital with an LCD display where all the digits are black

Looking at the meter again I think that there is a space between the 5 leftmost
digits and the remaining three.

This would mean that my usage over three days would be 2.827 cubic metres or
32.51 KWh, costing £1.19, this seems more like it.

Does anyone have experience of this type of meter. I am correct thinking that
there are 3 decimal places.

Also after the right most digit, there is an F does any one know what this means
Fault perhaps ?

Hope you can help

Darran.

Cardew

Yes 3 decimal places.

Ken68

Could be Mk F or FLOW.....anyway welcome to Ebico.

SwanJon

Sometimes these kind of meters have a border around the numbers - black for the first 5 and red for the last three - just don't have the technology to make the LCD numbers red...