New To The Heating With Oil Game..

[Jackbass]

Shop around and always pay cash. Buy programmable 7 day t-stats that way you can set up target times when you need the house warmer. If you are running a tankless water system invest in an electric water heater. Unfortunately oil is now more expensive. Check out your homes insulation as well. Nothing burns oil like drafts.

Definitely look into a pellet stove this can reduce your oil consumption and pellets are far cheaper than oil. I have added a couple of thirty dollar electric radiators to my house as well just to keep te chill down at night as I let my heat drop to 60 from 11 Pm to 5 am. And to 55 during the work week during daytime hours.
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[afterhours]

just installed 2 7day thermo's. guess i'll buy an electric water heater as we like HOT showers. i've got about 8 cords of wood drying for next year. i plan on paying cash for oil and not bothering with contract- heating system is 2 years old.

[Slingah]

don't let tank run low/dry
get it cleaned/serviced yearly
hi bdsp

[afterhours]

hi matt!

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Originally Posted by Jackbass

Shop around and always pay cash. Buy programmable 7 day t-stats that way you can set up target times when you need the house warmer. If you are running a tankless water system invest in an electric water heater. Unfortunately oil is now more expensive. Check out your homes insulation as well. Nothing burns oil like drafts.

Definitely look into a pellet stove this can reduce your oil consumption and pellets are far cheaper than oil. I have added a couple of thirty dollar electric radiators to my house as well just to keep te chill down at night as I let my heat drop to 60 from 11 Pm to 5 am. And to 55 during the work week during daytime hours.
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Skip the electric water heater and have a Indirect piped to your boiler. Electric takes forever to recover once you run out of hot water, also then your only running on high limit so once your hot water is made your boiler wont run all day to maintain temp for tankless coil= less oil burned and more hot water on hand ready to go with a very fast recovery rate.

[BigFish]

We have oil and we also have electric hot water. I like shutting the furnace down all summer and not wasting/burning oil and wasting the heat that is generated from it all summer to keep the water hot. Is electricity more expensive than oil?? Maybe.....maybe not....but I like it!