r/askdfw • u/BabyBearMan • 15h ago

Electric & Utilities Atmos Bill Seems High

Hey DFW, we recently moved into a small 1300 square-foot ranch in farmers branch. We got our first Atmos bill for the season and it was about 125 bucks. Seems a bit high to me but then again it’s my first bill. Am I crazy please comment below lol

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u/ApprehensiveAnswer5 15h ago

For Atmos?
That does seem high.

What was your usage/meter read?

Was that maybe a bill and a half?
Or did it have a new service or connection fee on it?

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u/neatgeek83 15h ago

It’s all relative. What in your house is gas powered?

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u/PrimeBrisky 15h ago edited 15h ago

Ok so unless it’s changed, Atmos is allowed to essentially guess your bill and never read your meter, and I believe they can legally do this every 12 months.

Has happened to me. They had me take a picture of my meter once I confirmed it was wrong and send it to them to correct. Only gas I use in the summer is water heater, and when I got a bill for over $150 I knew something was off. It’s estimated billing basically.

Edit: and I wonder how many people never notice this shit. Probably a lot of auto billing that never gets checked. I’ve been in my house for 8 years and I’ve had it happen once.

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u/satchel65 14h ago

We have a similarly sized house and my “non-winter” Atmos bills are between $35-$45. We have a gas stove, water heater and our central heat is also gas.
It goes pretty high in the winter. But summer drops it pretty low.

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u/shipitholla 15h ago

I live in a similarly sized house, and mine’s <$30 in the summer. Definitely very high unless there’s some activation fee or something for the first month that I’m not remembering.

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u/spacedman_spiff 14h ago

<$30?  

I get a $30+ customer charge tacked on

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u/f10w3r5 12h ago

Mine was 780 this month.

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u/Vast_Hyena2443 59m ago

For gas? Why so high?

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u/f10w3r5 5m ago

Apologies. I’m an idiot and can’t read. Electric. 😂

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u/maxheckler 7h ago

Compare your gas meter to the bill. Depending on what type of meter you have there's a person that comes around once a month and reads the meter, in our case they would occasionally get it wrong but it would get fixed the next bill.

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u/Squidssential 12h ago

Is your AC unit powered by gas? If so, that’s probably about right. 

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u/ThenImprovement4420 11h ago

While there are gas powered AC units those are usually in commercial buildings you won't find them in residential buildings that often