Heating Oil Help
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How to stay warmer, burn less heating oil and …
Keep More Money in Your Pocket
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Here’s one of the industries best kept secrets.
Unless you’re in the industry you wouldn’t know this tool even exists.
There’s a patented and proven technology that exist right now that’ll make you furnace burn less fuel
(Sadly few outside of the industry know about it.)
It’s called a Becket heating system Heat Manager or if you have a forced hot air furnace its the Intelledyne brand.
Their guarantee…Save at least 10% on heating oil usage or they’ll buy back their products.
I had the unit installed in my home in (2008) I saved $637.50 just that season (That’s 150 gallons at $4.25 per gallon)
BEFORE YOU START — READ THIS FIRST
Read how I saved a ton of money on oil usage… below
I saved a ton of money on oil usage…
Rather than getting a new boiler I just upgraded the burner. By changing my non retention burner to a new retention burner head it cost me a lot less and increased my efficiency HUGE. I was a lot warmer and I used a lot less fuel. Here’s a few things I did…
- Do a energy audit so you can button up your home and keep the heat in and the cold out. I offer a do it your self version energy audit in the 87 tip section.
- Lower your hot water temperature, I suggest bringing it down to 120 degrees. You won’t notice a difference & you’ll see savings fast. See water heater savings tips.
Here’s the kind of thing you’ll find in my 87 heating tips
(listed through out this blog)
3 Top questions you need to be asking your service tech when they are working on your system so you look like you know what you’re talking about… they realize they can’t screw up or do a poor job.
(I’ve included a video of a tune up done properly with all the details in the resource section.)
1.) Was the chimney base repaired or cleaned?
This tends to be a dirty job. Lots of techs forget on purpose. Your chimney & your smoke pipe get filled up & don’t work properly.
It’s dangerous for you & part of the process that needs to get done.
2.) How does the furnace combustion chamber look? Any cracks?
This tells the tech you know what your talking about. He’ll do a better job checking it. It’ll be safer for you (no dangerous fumes)
plus it’ll make it more efficient.
3.) Are all the seams in the smoke pipe sealed and is the heat exchanger cleaned really well?
This reminds him to be detailed. A small amount of soot can kill your efficiency so the cleaner the exchanger the better for you.
But make sure to look at all the savings tips since there’s savings to be had on every page.
And like I said, I use to charge as much as $99.00 for this information in a down load able e-book. BUT NOT ANY MORE.
Believe me, I know how tough it can be.
So let’s just call this my investment into the bank of good karma.
All this information is now on the site and it’s free.
So grab a hot coffee or tea and poke around the site. If you have any questions don’t hesitate to drop me a note.
Stay safe, Stay warm and save money.
P.S. Poke around the site and get the information free (start at the heating oil table of contents) or…
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{ 5 comments… read them below or add one }
I have been trying to save money on my heating and am grateful for your site. One idea I had was to turn off the electrical power to my furnace in warm months during the night so that it was not heating the water when no one was using it. However, I read on one website that turning off the power frequently can hurt the furnace. Is this true?
Clark Kelsey
Hi Clark- it is… there's a tendency to create what they call scaleing. Scales are created on the heat exchanger. It deadends the ability for it to transfer heat and over time it can play havock on your efficiency.
The key here is the frequency. In the summer if I'm on the road for a few weeks & I turn my furnace off.
But if it's only going to be a day or 2 I don't do it.
Clark… I'll contact one of the manufacturers to get all the details to verify my response and to see if there's anything new out there that can help save more oil and keep more money in our pockets. I'll get back to you in a bit.
John
Nice post, I love the website.
Hi, it seems to me the Oil Companies will offer a lower fixed rate for new customers yet not offer comperable rates to their existing customers, This causes US to go looking for the best rates to heat our homes each year, It doesn't seem logical that the companies do not care if they lose one of their customers as long as they pick up a replacement.This doesn't seem to be good business practices to me. Care to share your views?
Bill
Hi Bill- good to hear from you and I hear you LOUD and CLEAR….
Frustrating isn't it?
Unfortunatly (in my opinion) it's a follow the leader kind of industry. What I mean is most companies follow the status quo… and consumers suffer.
Kind of reminds me of Lemmings. According to wikipedia (lemming suicide is a frequently used metaphor in reference to people who go along unquestioningly with popular opinion, with potentially dangerous or fatal consequences.)
Now it's not their fault. For years the marketing geniuses in the industry kept telling them about "customer value". Get a new customer cheap and you'll make it up over time because customers will stay with you and you'll (the company) recoup your initial low price. Well YEAH if you don't hose that poor customer the very next year and in the same time teach them (consumers) to shop around.
Bill, one of the biggest (if not the biggest) conglomerate in the home heating oil industry is notorious for that… There I go commiting political suicide
Now I agree with the concept of life time customer value but ONLY if it's done correctly… ALWAYS keeping the customer in mind.
So I agree with you Bill. It leaves a real bad taste in consumers mouths and it's really backfired on the industry. BUT nobody seems to notice except just about every consumer in the country!
What's worse… with the internet that kind of news travels like droping a match into a bucket of gas. It EXPLODES across the net.
Hopefully the industry will start to question why they do things and be open to current marketing best practices. We can only hope!
So what do you think Bill… What would you do if you were in their shoes?