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« on: November 15, 2001, 03:40:32 pm » |
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In Ottawa, the water meter people used to come into the house to read the meter. Several years back (I was still living at home so 10-15 years ago), the city equipped each home with a device on the outside of the house. Now the meter can be read from the outside of the house.
The electric company usually sends a card around so that everyone can read their own meter. But at our house, which is in a relatively new neighbourhood, the electrical meter is outside the house.
I think in both cases it is a help to both sides. The homeowner doesn't have to be home or doesn't have to allow a stranger into the house to have the meter read. And for the water/electric company they don't have to worry about the homeowner being home or protecting themselves from suspicious homeowners or vicious pets!
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