Journal

Notes from meter rooms

Short field notes from cupboards and plant rooms, written after the shoes were dry.

These entries are for facilities people and owners who already know the smell of a basement. They are not lectures on “energy culture.” They describe what we keep seeing in Batumi and along the Adjara coast.

Hotel bedroom with pale linens and daylight, typical of guesthouse rooms that add split cooling in Batumi summers

21 June 2026 · Nino Kharatishvili

Summer cooling on a boulevard guesthouse

Split units on every balcony look like comfort. On the incoming meter they look like a second kitchen that never closes.

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Hotel pool terrace in strong sun, a stand-in for boulevard properties whose laundry rooms run hard after the weekend

12 May 2026 · Nino Kharatishvili

Why Batumi hotel laundry spikes sit on Tuesday bills

Weekend checkouts pile linen. Monday is for washing. Tuesday is when the dryers finish the story the invoice later calls a mystery.

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Industrial interior with overhead lights, similar to plant spaces where three-phase boards live

3 April 2026 · Giorgi Tavadze

Standing in front of a three-phase board: what we write down

Serial number, clock, registers, and whether the cover is sealed. Everything else is a story we refuse to guess from the corridor.

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Dim interior corridor with a staircase, the sort of back-of-house route that leads to a locked meter cupboard

18 March 2026 · Tamara Beridze

The basement cupboard nobody has a key for

Bookings fail in the file before they fail on site. If the key is with a contractor, the surveyor is a person standing in a corridor.

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City lights at dusk, hours that a drifted meter clock may still call daytime

9 February 2026 · Giorgi Tavadze

Night tariff clocks that drifted after a power cut

A meter clock is a small face with large consequences. After March cuts, we keep finding night bands that no longer match the sun.

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