Hey, Why don't we let Justin and Mike Legary handle this? They're looking into it, everybody trying to guess/add up what we mostly already have numbers for isn't a great use of our time.
Why can't we have this sorta interest for things that actual need to be done, like volunteering for vaccuming? :) Ron On 2012-08-23 12:33, Justin Lacko 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/ _______________________________________________ SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/
