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I have Keyspan for natural gas & LIPA for electric. Gas cost me $384 & electric was $186 for February, yikes $570 bucks!! :0 That is the extreme for winter but it'll swing the other way for summer if we use the central air alot. This is for a 2 zone heat system in a 2200sf house.
Our bill..not from long island was 483 for natural gas (normally not that high..but this weird march weather brought that on). NYSEG (new york state gas and electric)..our budget payment is 250. BUT in the summer...we dont use our natural gas alot so our bill is like 50 bucks per month if that..but our budget payment for nyseg will stay the same.
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paying for oil
I have about 1,000 sq. ft. of living space, and 175 gallons lasted about 10 weeks for us. We paid just under $500 for that much oil at $2.99/gal. (an introductory rate).
my house is 2400 sqft of living space & we live in the pine barren which is generally 5 degrees colder than the rest of LI. Since november we've used 550 gallons. I too call around for the best COD price, it has varied quite a bit this season.
1600 sq ft of heated space on 2 separately zoned floors. We use approx 120 gal a month (but only 3 months of reference). Considering burning my bills in protest (and for heat!)
my house is 2400 sqft of living space & we live in the pine barren which is generally 5 degrees colder than the rest of LI. Since november we've used 550 gallons. I too call around for the best COD price, it has varied quite a bit this season.
House is 2000 sq ft (excludes attic and basement both unheated) and by the water. I am at 500 gals since November. And yes, the COD prices have been all over the map.
I have 1200 SQ
I filled the tank (275 gallons) Dec 2nd its down just above half. I keep my Beckette burner and tank exchanger cleaned and replace the .75 GPH nozzle every year myself.
I baught my own temprature probe and adjusted, stack and damping.
You can never trust the oil people to service them, they tune them rich with to little damping. The burner's run colder, stink and too much oil is wasted up the chimmny.
To many of the service guys are rushed by bosses, have beat tools, coat do a quick 1-2-3 with a coat hanger cleaning the tank tubes.
I also ONLY turn the hot water heater on when I need to shower. I put its exchanger pump on a switch in the bathroom. I also run a wood stove with a heat exchanger in the living room.
Went out an baught a 50 inch HD plasma TV and Cobra SSB CB and amp for my truck with the savings
My Oil guy told me people up in the shabby Euro stucco McMansions on the North Shore pay over $8,000 to heat there houses and still freeze there hinee's off of the wind is over 8MPH.
----And that was last year !
Last edited by RoastBeefJackson; 03-02-2008 at 09:46 PM..
Could you explain the steps. I know I'm not a plumber but I am quite handy. If you explain it step by step I can pick that up.
I got this from oil scams. from habitat mag .com
Protect Yourself Method 1: Use a Dipstick or a Petrometer
As the oil is pumped out of the truck, the driver pushes up a lever to close each oil compartment after it empties. It isn’t completely empty, though. It’s full of air. The DCA does an annual “product depletion” test on every oil-delivery truck to confirm that air isn't getting into the meter and being registered as oil. The meter-calibration chamber is then wired shut and lead tags seal the wires in place. If the truck passes all the tests, the inspector attaches a lead and wire clamp over the adjustment controls of the meter and places an official circular seal to the meter.
There are three main grades of heating oil, called No. 2, No. 4, and No. 6.
The first is the cleanest and most expensive; the last is the dirtiest and cheapest; and No. 4 is a mixture of the two. Unless you're installing a new boiler, you don’t get to choose which oil you use; your boiler and burner will be manufactured to burn one. No. 6 is heavy, sluggish and dirty.
Every truck has an air-eliminator device that is supposed to stop you from doing that
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