Home Heating Oil in Oyster Bay, NY 11771

8 Ways to Lower Your Home Heating Oil Bill

If you’ve been shopping around for a home heating oil company on Long Island but keep coming up empty, head to OK Petroleum! For more than 40 years, this family-owned and operated fuel oil company has been keeping Long Island homeowners warm with their high-quality, affordable, and convenient heating oil services. It’s hard to find a company that has such an excellent track record of success and such an extensive list of satisfied customers!

While oil is the safest, most efficient, and most affordable way to heat your home, heating oil prices can still be exorbitant. If you’re concerned about the bills you’ll soon be getting, keep on reading to find out how you can lower the cost of your home heating oil.

Keep the Thermostat Low

To cut your home heating oil bills, set your thermostat so that it’s no higher than 68 degrees when you’re home. When you’re out, set it lower. According to Energy.gov, lowering your thermostat 10 to 15 degrees lower for a span of 8 hours each day, you can see a savings of 5 to 15 percent on your oil bill each year!

Upgrade to Programmable

While we’re on the topic of thermostats, installing a programmable one is another simple, yet highly effective way to lower your heating bills. A programmable thermostat will help you manage your temperature settings throughout the day; for example instead of having to manually adjust the setting before you leave for work in the morning, you can program the thermostat so that it automatically turns down right after you head out and turns back up right before you return home.

A programmable thermostat is easy to install and will help your home heating system run more efficiently, which can translate to some serious savings.

Bundle Up

Sweaters, blankets, and big fluffy socks are another excellent – and easy – way to lower your heating bill. Instead of pumping the heat and burning through oil, pull on a sweater, put on some socks, and wrap yourself up in a throw blanket to stay nice and cozy.

Use a Humidifier

The relative humidity inside your home can make a huge difference in the comfort level. For example, when the air is dry, 68 degrees can feel rather chilly; however, when it’s moist, the same temperature can feel quite comfortable. That’s because humid air holds heat better than dry air.

Bringing in a humidifier will help the air inside your home feel a lot warmer, which will help you avoid the temptation to pump up the heat.

Clean Your Furnace

A properly maintained furnace runs more efficiently. Check the filter on your furnace regularly (at least once a month) and replace it when it’s dirty. Your furnace won’t have to work as hard, which means it won’t burn through as much oil. Obviously, the less oil you use, the lower your heating oil bills will be.

Upgrade Your Insulation

Check your insulation and make sure that it’s between 10 and 14 inches thick. If it’s any thinner, you could be losing a significant amount of heated air. To keep that air trapped in – and cut down on your consumption (and oil bills), upgrade your insulation so that it can resist heat flow more effectively.

Bleed the Radiators

If there’s a buildup of air in your heating system, you’re going to burn through a lot of oil to heat up the radiators. Bleeding your radiators at least twice a year can help your heating system run more efficiently, reduce the amount of oil you burn through, and save you a nice chunk of change on your heating oil bills.

Buy in Bulk

Last but not least, consider buying your oil in bulk. When you by bulk, you could get a nice discount on the price. Just make sure that you keep a close watch on your oil tank’s gauge and don’t wait until you’re dangerously low to order; if you do, you could run out of oil and get stuck paying extra fees for an emergency delivery.

By implementing this eight simple, yet highly effective tips, you could see a big drop in your home heating oil bills. Of course, you should also make sure that you are ordering your oil from a reputable fuel oil provider that charges reasonable prices. For the most affordable home heating oil prices on Long Island, contact OK Petroleum. They’ll help you stay warm – and save money!

Some information about Oyster Bay, NY

The Town of Oyster Bay is the easternmost of the three towns which make up Nassau County, New York, in the United States. Part of the New York metropolitan area, it is the only town in Nassau County to extend from the North Shore to the South Shore of Long Island. As of the 2010 census, it had a population of 293,214.

Succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples had lived in the area for thousands of years. At the time of European contact, the Lenape (Delaware) nation inhabited western Long Island. By 1600 the band inhabiting the local area was called the Matinecock after their location, but they were Lenape people.

Following European colonization, the area became part of the colony of New Netherland. In 1639, the Dutch West India Company made its first purchase of land on Long Island from the local Native Americans. The English also had colonies on Long Island at this time. The Dutch did not dispute English claims to what is now Suffolk County, but when settlers from New England arrived in (present-day) Oyster Bay in 1640, they were soon arrested as part of a boundary dispute. In 1643, Englishmen purchased land in the present-day town of Hempstead from the Indians that included land purchased by the Dutch in 1639. Nevertheless, in 1644, the Dutch director granted a patent for Hempstead to the English.

The Dutch also granted other English settlements in Flushing, Newtown, and Jamaica. In 1650, the Treaty of Hartford established a boundary between Dutch and English claims at ‘Oysterbay’, by which the Dutch meant present-day Cold Spring Harbor (to the east) and the English meant all of the water connected to present-day Oyster Bay Harbor. Meanwhile, the government of England came under the control of Oliver Cromwell as a republic, and smugglers took advantage of the unresolved border dispute. In 1653, English settlers made their first purchase of land in Oyster Bay from the local Matinecock tribe, though there were already some rogue English settlements there. For this purchase, the English settlers paid to the Native American Moheness (aka Assiapum), ‘six kettles, six fathoms of wampum, six hoes, six hatchets, three pairs of stockings, thirty awl-blades or muxes, twenty knives, three shirts and as much Peague as will amount to four pounds sterling.’ The monarchy was restored in England in 1660, and in 1664 King Charles gave Long Island (and much else) to his brother James, leading to the Dutch relinquishing control of all of New Amsterdam.

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Directions from Oyster Bay, NY to OK Petroleum

Here are some associations related to petroleum and Home Heating Oil:

• Independent Petroleum Association of America
• US Oil & Gas Association
• New York State Energy Coalition
• National Oilheat Research Alliance
• Empire State Energy Association
• The American Petroleum Institute

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