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Heating Oil Checklist

Heating Oil Checklist

As a service to our valued heating oil customers, we have complied a basic checklist to assist you in preparing your fuel oil storage and heating systems for the up coming season. Hopefully, this will help both you and us have an uneventful and safe heating oil season.

Have your heating system inspected and serviced annually by a trained professional. It’s better to prevent a problem now then fix a problem in the middle of January.
Are there any other pipes in the ground or through the basement walls that could be mistaken for a fill pipe? If so, remove, cap and/or identify.
Is your fill cap secure preventing rain from entering the tank?
Is your fill pipe high enough above the ground to prevent melting snow from entering the pipe and to allow the driver to easily find the pipe in deep snow?
When leaving your home for an extended period of time in the winter, have a neighbor check on your heating system. A thermometer at a window facing out, can be a quick and easy check by a neighbor to be certain the furnace is operating properly. You don’t want to come home to frozen pipes.
Be certain that the tank vent is free from obstruction. Bees and wasps like to build nests in those vents in the summer time. Is your vent alarm working properly?
Twice a year inspect the underside of your tank and the tank legs for rust and metal fatigue.
Is your tank gauge working properly? Check it before and after your next fill to be certain that it moved.
Is the shrubbery trimmed away from the fill pipe so our drivers can easily and safely fill your tank?
When clearing the snow from your drive, remember that our delivery trucks are about 3 feet wider than the average size car.
Are there any low hanging tree limbs over your driveway?
If your heating system is in need of service or repair, contact your local heating and cooling service company.

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