Pass-through audit. Landlord installed submeters two years ago, which sounds like an improvement over
the square footage allocation that preceded it, and in most respects it is.
Except the laundromat's submeter is downstream of a panel that also feeds the rear corridor lighting,
the shared water heater closet, and, as far as I can tell from the panel schedule, the parking lot
lighting on the north side.
The panel schedule is handwritten and about 15 years old. Half the circuits are labeled things like
REAR and MISC. So I cannot prove the parking lot claim from documents. What I can show is that the
submeter registers 4 to 6 kW continuously during hours the laundromat is closed and every machine is
off.
That overnight baseline is my evidence. Over two years it works out to about 19,000 dollars.
Question is procedural. Do I go to the landlord with the baseline analysis and ask for a circuit
trace, or do I hire an electrician to trace it first and go in with proof? The client is mid-lease and
does not want a fight.
the square footage allocation that preceded it, and in most respects it is.
Except the laundromat's submeter is downstream of a panel that also feeds the rear corridor lighting,
the shared water heater closet, and, as far as I can tell from the panel schedule, the parking lot
lighting on the north side.
The panel schedule is handwritten and about 15 years old. Half the circuits are labeled things like
REAR and MISC. So I cannot prove the parking lot claim from documents. What I can show is that the
submeter registers 4 to 6 kW continuously during hours the laundromat is closed and every machine is
off.
That overnight baseline is my evidence. Over two years it works out to about 19,000 dollars.
Question is procedural. Do I go to the landlord with the baseline analysis and ask for a circuit
trace, or do I hire an electrician to trace it first and go in with proof? The client is mid-lease and
does not want a fight.