could be because of a meter reading being done recently and it was out from what hydro was reading remind marvin of this we should start help to insure the readings are updated to hydro regularly so these kinda bills don't happen
On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Justin Lacko <[email protected]> wrote: > One of our electrical bills came in and caused a bit of an issue with > the owner, Marvin - it was $2500 and they are assuming a very large > portion of that is our floor. They are upset that it is high. > > The reality is that they don't understand the bill, and there are a > lot of misconceptions of what we do up here. Marvin complained that he > leased us the space as offices, not as manufacturing (this is > frivolous as he's making his own distinction on this and our lease > says nothing to this effect) and that we're running heavy equipment up > here 24/7. Mike Legary gave a rough estimate of our power consumption > at max $750/mo. - nowhere near this bill. Mike and I are meeting with > Marvin next Tuesday to clarify this issue. > > One thing that we need to do to make sure this situation does not > occur is to be mindful of our power consumption in the space - I don't > mean we need to cut back, but we have to understand that whatever we > do costs money and we are responsible for ensuring that our costs > don't skyrocket - otherwise the landlord WILL come back to us again. > There is a misconception that AssentWorks draws a lot of power and it > "must be them because of all that machinery" - in reality most of > their machinery is only running for an hour a day, and SkullSpace > actually uses more power than AssentWorks (the server room is probably > costing us around $300/mo. to run). We can no longer be of the opinion > that "since we don't pay for power, we can leave whatever we want > running." > > Over the next few months our power situation will be transforming (pun > intended) and our usage will change - but we will be responsible about > this and everything will work out! > > Thanks, > Justin > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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