Safety Tips:
- Safety Tip
Make sure your tank whistle is working.
Proper annual inspections will ensure safety and continued delivery service.
- Safety Tip
Clear the snow!
Keep the area around tanks clear of snow to allow fuel supplier access to the tank for filling and inspection. We greatly appreciate your efforts to help keep our team and your family safe from slipping and falling.
- Safety Tip
Booking an annual inspection by a certified oil burner mechanic.
Call a certified oil burner mechanic to conduct an annual inspection of your heating system, including the home-heating oil tank and fuel lines.
Have your oil burning appliance serviced and a combustion analysis completed. The mechanic should, (as required in the oil code CSA B 139) carefully inspect the integrity of the combustion appliance, heat exchanger and flue (chimney).
- Safety Tip
It costs less to prevent an oil leak than to fix or clean up a spill.
Fuel oil within the heating system becomes a hazardous material if it leaks out.
Homeowners should always consult their insurance company to see what their policy covers, and their obligations in terms of personal responsibility and liability. Address issues immediately when they arise!
Heat Savings Tips
- Heat Saving Tips
- Change furnace filters.
- Dirty filters restrict airflow and increase your furnace’s energy demand. Better indoor air quality is a nice side benefit of this energy-saving tip. Consider switching to a washable filter, which reduces waste and is more effective.
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- Heat Saving Tips
- Mind your thermostat.
- Every degree you turn it down can save between 1.5 and five per cent of your heating bill. A programmable thermostat will help you get efficient and consistent heat when you need it.
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- Heat Saving Tips
- Insulate windows.
- Hang heavy curtains to keep the cold out and the cozy in. A cheaper solution: insulation film, available at most hardware stores. This plastic shrink film is easy to apply and keeps in much of the heat that would otherwise escape.
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- Heat Saving Tips
- Draft proof.
- Drafts waste five to 30 percent of energy. Those from basements and roofs cool the most. Seal doors, windows and chimneys in those areas first. Try testing with incense. Where the smoke wavers, a draft is blowing in.
- To seal leaks, make or buy a “door snake” and caulk and weatherstrip doors and windows. Look for non-toxic, eco-friendly caulks. You can also add small insulating covers underneath electric outlet wall plates on outside walls or beside cold basements and crawl spaces.
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- Heat Saving Tips
- Layer up. Set your thermostat at 20 C and put on a sweater, socks and slippers. (Heat the person, not the space.)
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- Heat Saving Tips
- At night, cover up well and lower your thermostat to 17 C.
- Sleep quality improves when the temperature is cooler.
- (Some people turn off the heat and open their window a crack.)
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- Heat Saving Tips
- Warm your kitchen (and taste buds).
- Heat released from your oven or stovetop while cooking can also keep you toasty. Eating and drinking hot foods and beverages helps too. Source davidsuzuki.org
- Heat Saving Tips
- Remove ice hanging from window frames. Even if it doesn’t look like much, the ice between your window panes means cold coming in. Spend a few minutes removing it.
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