Reading your gas meter Your gas meter records, carefully and accurately, the amount of gas that enters your home. Columbia Gas reads your meter every other month.
Many customers like to keep a close check on their gas usage.
Or you can read and print the following pages for future reference. The meter measures the gas flowing through it and then records this flow in the numbers on its dials. Here are some basic tips to help you read your gas meter. The pointer on our gas dail moves in the direction of the numbers. When a pointer is between numbers, always read the smaller number.