heating oil prices thru the roof (New York, York: house, promotional, maintenance)
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So, here i am trying to renew my home heating contract with Petro. I had a decent experience with them last year. However, they're asking for $ 4.05 /gallon for a ceiling plan + $ 108 for the annual maintenance. Obviously, i am shopping around. I don't necessarily want to do COD yet because i don't have a reliable HVAC person that could come and service my 60 year old boiler. Also, i don't want to be hit with $600 or $700 bills each delivery. Is slomins any good with their maintenance and service? Can someone recommend other oil companies that offer competitive pricing and good workmanship 24/7?
i have oil for heat but gas for hot water and stove. We do C.O.D. with oil companies. I call around to get the best price. I have a guy to service my boiler he's been doing it since 2004. I want to convert to gas 100%. Oil prices are killing us. I have a 550 gallon tank and last year we filled up and it was 1200 dollars.
So, here i am trying to renew my home heating contract with Petro. I had a decent experience with them last year. However, they're asking for $ 4.05 /gallon for a ceiling plan + $ 108 for the annual maintenance. Obviously, i am shopping around. I don't necessarily want to do COD yet because i don't have a reliable HVAC person that could come and service my 60 year old boiler. Also, i don't want to be hit with $600 or $700 bills each delivery. Is slomins any good with their maintenance and service? Can someone recommend other oil companies that offer competitive pricing and good workmanship 24/7?
Thank you
You do realize that you're very likely wasting quite a bit of money with such an old unit? It's probably getting about 65% efficiency, maybe less depending on maintenance. A modern well tuned unit will hit 85%+ easily. Most oil companies would absolutely love to have you as their customer - more money for them. You're throwing away 20% of your heating oil money.
My hubby came up through the ranks as a heating tech, so we naturally go the COD route. But, when he couldn't see to our issues himself (the shoemaker's children go barefoot, eh?) I've dealt with both of these companies off & on over the years. Both were/are great. My SIL is currently with Troiano for about 5yrs now. Good prices, good service. The big dogs hire anybody with a pulse. Sure, there's great techs in every company, but Petro, Slomins, etc., have a very high turnover for a reason. These two below are family owned & in it for the long haul.
Not a bad price. Probably only good for one year. After the year is up, they'll probably try to ********* like Petro is trying to do to me right now.
Most companies offer promotional rates for new customers which are usually much less than the prices for present customers. I have bounced between these two companies to get the lower oil prices and have no problem adding more companies to the list if need be. Good luck.
i have oil for heat but gas for hot water and stove. We do C.O.D. with oil companies. I call around to get the best price. I have a guy to service my boiler he's been doing it since 2004. I want to convert to gas 100%. Oil prices are killing us. I have a 550 gallon tank and last year we filled up and it was 1200 dollars.
My parents gas bill in the 1970s was $600/year with cleaning included... long ago and far away and my mother heated to 72 all the time..... I moved upstate. I discovered gas.
You have gas, so you probably need no new gas line; maybe a new meter. You need the heat source run to a new furnace. You might as well get a gas dryer as well. It is worth the cost -- but I do not know what it costs to change from oil heat.
My gas heat (hi-efficiency furnace; 2 years old now), hot water, dryer and stove, in cold snowy Erie County NY (winter temps quite a bit lower/grew up on LI) and we keep it at 68-72 degrees all day (depends how cold outside) and cool to 65-67 at night: costs me an average of $65/mo. max for a 1200 ft house which is including 2 closed in porches; I just pulled my ledger and added bills and divided by 12 for last year. It was $1440/year before the new furnace and added insulation (about $120/mo).. gas company was amazed at how far it dropped. This month, most of the cost (close to 2/3) is the darned taxes... gotta love NY and the Feds.
So, depending on what you are going to have to pay to get rid of the old furnace, empty the oil tank, etc. and what heat you set, cost will vary. Radiators are less efficient if they are steam vs. hot water and will cost more to heat ( my daughter has a boiler and gas furnace with steam radiators); hot air heat is cheapest. However, you do not have to service the gas furnace as much as the oil ones (once a year and change the filter when needed; it burns clean -- you will not have a furnace full of soot at the end of the year), they are much smaller, and much more efficient -- new furnaces vent thru the side wall of the house and have air intake there as well; in our case, we opted for intake from the basement ( like old ones did) because snow might cover the intake. I have had gas forced hot air or radiator for 40 years and love it... I would never go back to oil.
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