The irregular use of storage rooms in the communities is becoming more and more frequent, freeloading neighbors connect all kinds of devices to avoid paying the electricity bill, so they take advantage to connect appliances, freezers or refrigerators at any time of the day.
Saving on the electricity bill is of the utmost importance for all the people in the commune, but this ends when the irregular use of electricity from the storage rooms is detected. This is a fraudulent situation that affects the neighbors, since Electricity consumption is an expense that is paid by the entire community, but there are people who commit fraud for their own benefit.
It is important to mention that the operation of these spaces depends on the central electricity of the building, that is, All the electricity in the homes comes from the same source, therefore, it is a service that must be paid for by all the owners of the property. community.
Of course, there are several people who want to avoid paying for electricity and tend to take advantage of public storage rooms to avoid paying the monthly bill. They make excessive use of electricity through devices such as freezers, televisions or any other household device that consumes a lot of energy.
Solution to detect electrical fraud in community storage rooms
A news item published by Cadena SER reveals a method to detect electrical fraud in community storage rooms in Vitoria, on Juan Gris street. It should be mentioned that it is quite difficult to detect fraud in the electricity bill, but it is not an impossible task.
When the agency receives a notification from the neighbors themselves who suspect that the light is being misused in the storage rooms, electricians must be prepared to perform multiple tests and measurements in order to detect where the fraud is coming from and what a neighbor is that he is taking advantage of.
To detect the neighbors who steal the light from the storage rooms, the electrician has to go to the main switchboard, open the register box that is outside the garages, and measure with a clamp meter to calculate the general consumption of the storage rooms, the which must always be zero.
Although renting a storage room is usually affordable, this does not mean that you should take advantage of others to steal electricity and not pay for its use. The procedure to detect it is cumbersome, you must go to the garage to find out the energy flow and measure the light consumption of each neighborThis of course takes time.
Once the electrician has detected the fraud, an agreement is reached with the neighbor freeloaderif he later ignores and does not cooperate, the community is warned that the use of electricity will be limited, a harsh situation that will ultimately harm all the residents, a regulation that should be well known.
Now you know how fraudulent use of light is detected in community storage rooms, where the neighbors connect refrigerators and even chests, to avoid paying the electricity bill at all costs and that in return the community pays for it.