Meter reading log
Free toolEach meter kept as its own record — the number as it read, the date, and who read it — printed a month at a time.
A record of numbers somebody read off a meter. It publishes no expected usage, no normal range, no rate and no cost, and it does not interpret a reading for billing: what a reading means on an invoice is between you and your utility. Nothing here is converted and nothing is judged — CompliMaint makes no determination about consumption, billing or any utility account.
The number, and nothing done to it
A reading is what somebody saw on a face at a moment. This tool keeps that, with the date, the time and the name of whoever took it, and does nothing else to it. There is no expected usage, no normal range, no rate, no cost and no conversion.
That is not the tool being lazy. What a reading means on an invoice depends on the tariff, the multiplier, the read cycle and what the utility did with last month’s estimate. The dated numbers are the part nobody can reconstruct afterwards, and they are what every billing dispute actually turns on.
Every meter is its own record
A main and four submeters are five histories, not one sheet with five columns. Each meter is set up once — what it measures, the unit on its face, main or sub, what it serves, its number and any multiplier — and each prints its own monthly log. A submeter’s readings never land on the main’s record.
The unit is yours: kWh, ccf, therms, gallons, cubic feet, or whatever is printed on that particular meter. It prints beside the number. A meter with two registers carries both through readings you name yourself.
An estimate is marked as one
A read that was estimated rather than taken is flagged on the entry, because six months later the difference between a read and an estimate is the whole argument. Leave it blank and it stays blank — nothing is assumed either way.
Where the meters live
In the same equipment registry as the rest of the building, so a meter carries a history like anything else. A reading that shows something wrong becomes a tracked item in the corrective action tracker, and the monthly sheet files into Records.
A record of readings you took. CompliMaint publishes no expected usage, calculates no bill, and makes no determination about consumption, billing or any utility account. Everything runs on your device.
Questions people ask
- What should a meter reading log record?
- Each meter set up once — what it measures, the unit printed on its face, whether it is a main or a submeter, what it serves, its meter number and any multiplier — and then, for each read: the date, the time, who read it, the number exactly as it appeared, and whether the read was estimated rather than taken.
- Does it work out my usage or my bill?
- No. It publishes no expected usage, no normal range, no rate and no cost, and it does not interpret a reading for billing. What a reading means on an invoice depends on the tariff, the read cycle and what your utility did with last month's estimate — that conversation is between you and them. What this gives you is the dated numbers, which is the part nobody can reconstruct afterwards.
- Can I keep a main meter and submeters together?
- You keep them as separate meters with separate histories, which is how they are read and how they are queried. Each one carries its own unit, its own meter number and what it serves, and each produces its own monthly sheet — a submeter's readings never land on the main's record.
- What if the meter reads in something unusual?
- You type the unit yourself when you set the meter up — kWh, ccf, therms, gallons, cubic feet, whatever is on the face — and it prints beside the number. A meter with two registers can carry both through the extra readings you name yourself. Nothing is converted.