Inspectional

How can I tell if there is cross wiring in my building?

I live in a 3 bedroom apartment in Boston. We don't pay for heat and have gas heat anyway, but our electric bill mysteriously goes up from $30 in the summer to $190 in the winter. I suspect that someone has tapped into our electricity. I've already had the City Inspectional Service come and he couldn't find anything wrong and said we needed to hire an electrician. The landlord is refusing to send one, because he claims that there is nothing wrong with the wiring. Is there a way to tell if someone has tapped into our electricity? Or if the landlord has rigged it somehow so that we are paying for something else? The inspector already tried turning the power off and observing the meter and supposedly it stopped running. And he claims it's not connected to our furnace.

Public Comments

1. MOST OF THE "CROSS WIRING" THAT I'VE SEEN IS USUALLY AT THE FIXTURE AND WON'T HURT ANYTHING. ITS JUST NOT BY CODE...IF IT WERE ME,AND WHILE ITS STILL COLD IN BOSTON, I'D HAVE THE POWER CO. PULL THE METER FOR A DAY AND SEE IF I STILL HAD HEAT...IF SO , THEN I WOULD START TELLING THE POWER CO., I THINK I HAVE A BAD METER...THERE IS NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON FOR THIS MUCH FLUXUATION...