How to Read Your Meter

Step 1: Facing the meter, start with the right-hand dial in the top row, or use the dial with the lowest numerical value. Record from right to left.

Step 2: Record the number that the hand on the dial has just passed -- remember that some hands move clockwise and some hands move counterclockwise. Also remember that one revolution of the dial drives the next dial by one digit. For instance, the one thousand dial must make one revolution in order for the ten thousand dial to move one digit.

Step 3: Repeat this procedure with each dial in succession, moving to the left, until you have a number for each dial and ending with the dial marked one million. This is the number of hundred cubic feet.