Home Heating Oil in Plainview, NY 11803

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 Plainview, NY

Plainview is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) located near the North Shore of Long Island in the town of Oyster Bay in Nassau County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP as of 2010 was 26,217. The Plainview post office has the ZIP code 11803.

Plainview’s origins date to 1648, when Robert Williams, a settler from Wales, bought land in the area. The land was considered desirable for farming because of a small pond named the Moscopas by local Native Americans, meaning ‘hole of dirt and water’. The remainder of the land in the area was purchased by Thomas Powell in 1695 as part of the Bethpage Purchase. The name ‘Mannatto Hill’ had already appeared on the 1695 deed of the Bethpage Purchase, and the settlement came to be called ‘Manetto Hill’. Manitou was the Native American word either for ‘god’ or for ‘spirit’.

The 1837 arrival of the Long Island Rail Road to nearby Hicksville brought a boom to local farming. In 1885, residents of Manetto Hill petitioned the United States Postal Service for a local post office, but were turned down because, according to several accounts, a similar name was already in use upstate. The hamlet was then named ‘Plainview’, for the view of the Hempstead Plains from the top of the Manetto Hills.

Plainview remained a farming community, famous for growing cucumbers for the huge Heinz pickle factories located in nearby Farmingdale and Hicksville. In the early 1900s blight destroyed the cucumber crop and many farmers switched to potatoes. After World War II, a potato blight combined with the desire of many returning GIs to leave New York City for the more rural Long Island, convinced many farmers to sell their property, leading to massive development in the area, giving rise to so-called suburban sprawl. Between 1950 and 1960, the hamlet grew from a population of 1,155 to more than 35,000. Most of the available land was developed during this period or otherwise designated as parkland. While overall development declined it did continue sporadically as smaller remaining parcels of land were also developed. In recent years, some of the few large remaining parcels have given way to gated communities, which are in contrast to most housing in the area. Some of these developments include ‘The Hamlet on Olde Oyster Bay’ and ‘The Seasons at Plainview’, a residential community focused on over age 55 residents and first time home buyers.

Learn more about Plainview.

Directions from Plainview, 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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