{"id":53130,"date":"2011-01-27T18:27:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T18:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=53130"},"modified":"2011-01-27T19:06:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T19:06:37","slug":"combining-indiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/01\/combining-indiv\/","title":{"rendered":"Combining individual coop gas meters into one meter.  Mistake?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to post a question, and the following is some information which I think is necessary to know first.<\/p>\n<p>We are a small, 15 unit brownstone coop building and are considering doing some minor plumbing work to change our individual gas meters (dedicated to cooking only) to a single meter.  This would presumably garner individual tenants a combined net savings of $1750\/yr (partially kicked back to coop reserves), since it seems that a very large part of our individual monthly gas bills is for service of individual meters and carry charges and not for the actual gas usage.  Apartments would still have their own shut off valves, in case isolated work was necessary on an individual line.<\/p>\n<p>Our calculations are that we would recoup the costs for the plumbing work within a couple of years, and then the coop would get $1000\/yr additional directly to our reserves.<\/p>\n <span class=\"plp-active-page\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/span> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/01\/combining-indiv\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to post a question, and the following is some information which I think is necessary to know first. We are a small, 15 unit brownstone coop building and are considering doing some minor plumbing work to change our individual gas meters (dedicated to cooking only) to a single meter. 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