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Re: gas costs for burners
Posted By: Don Miner In Response To: Re: gas costs for burners (SVP Neon Equipment)
Date: Sunday, 25 April 2010, at 7:31 p.m.
> Not a stupid question at all. If your gas
> bill has doubled to anywhere close to the
> numbers you gave, you have a problem (gas
> leak, inaccurate meter reading, etc.) If you
> look in the 2nd, 3rd or 4th edition of “Neon
> Techniques & Handling” there is a chart
> that gives the average gas consumption of
> the various burners. From that you can
> estimate what your hourly consumption is and
> multiply it by your current rate. Keep in
> mind that utilities rates in many areas have
> gone WAY up in the past year or two, so it
> may be possible that your gas bill has
> seemed to almost doubled depending on usage.> Also, if your utility company has recently
> gone to the “radio signal” meter reading
> outputs (the meter reader only has to be in
> close proximity to get the reading via
> remote), this system has been known to
> transmit false readings sometimes. You can
> keep track of the meter readings yourself
> and compare them to what your bill shows to
> determine if there is a problem with the
> accuracy of the readings. (Yeah, it’s the
> old ‘pass the buck and let the consumer
> figure out if there is a problem or not’).
Ditto on what Mark has said. This is a cost that everyone needs to know, to be able to compute their rates on their work. It is a definite overhead item. any item not considered can affect your bottom line. I use separate shut offs on my fires and operate only the fire I am using at the moment. Very seldom do I operate more than one fire at the same time.
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