A useful feature of gas meters is that they measure the gas flowing through them.
The following will be easier if you have a helper.
1. Turn off all gas appliances in the house (furnace, stove, hot water heater, etc.). You don't need to extinguish the pilot lights, just make sure the appliance isn't running. For example, turn down thermostat so furnace is off, turn off the burners on your stove, don't run hot water for a while so hot water heater stops heating.
2. Look at the meters. The dials should be either motionless (if none of your appliances has a pilot light) or moving slowly (if any appliance has a pilot light). Make note of any meter whose dial is moving slowly; this meter is connected to an appliance with a pilot light.
3. Go to each gas appliance in the house, one by one. Turn on the appliance (turn up thermostat, turn on oven, etc.) and see which meter's dials start spinning faster. Turn off each appliance before moving to the next one. If you have a helper, one person can observe the meters while the other turns appliances on and off.
4. You now know which appliances are connected to which meter. Have the gas company discontinue service to any meter that has no appliances. If appliances are connected to more than one meter, you could hire a plumber to reconfigure the connections, but this may be costly or make it more difficult to convert back to multifamily in the future.
The following will be easier if you have a helper.
1. Turn off all gas appliances in the house (furnace, stove, hot water heater, etc.). You don't need to extinguish the pilot lights, just make sure the appliance isn't running. For example, turn down thermostat so furnace is off, turn off the burners on your stove, don't run hot water for a while so hot water heater stops heating.
2. Look at the meters. The dials should be either motionless (if none of your appliances has a pilot light) or moving slowly (if any appliance has a pilot light). Make note of any meter whose dial is moving slowly; this meter is connected to an appliance with a pilot light.
3. Go to each gas appliance in the house, one by one. Turn on the appliance (turn up thermostat, turn on oven, etc.) and see which meter's dials start spinning faster. Turn off each appliance before moving to the next one. If you have a helper, one person can observe the meters while the other turns appliances on and off.
4. You now know which appliances are connected to which meter. Have the gas company discontinue service to any meter that has no appliances. If appliances are connected to more than one meter, you could hire a plumber to reconfigure the connections, but this may be costly or make it more difficult to convert back to multifamily in the future.
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