When the Eastern Pennsylvania fall ends and the temperatures really drop, homeowners who use heating oil for their home heating systems should be thinking about and ordering their fuel for the winter.
Before you reach out to your fuel provider, you’ll need to know how much heating oil to order. To figure out that number, you need to have an idea of how much heating oil you go through on an annual basis.
Not sure how to estimate this? Oehlert Bros. is happy to help!
No two homes and no two homeowners are the same, which means that the exact amount of heating oil a home uses varies. That being said, it is possible to estimate how much fuel an average home will use annually.
A home that is about 2,000 to 2,500 square feet (which is an average size here in Pennsylvania) can anticipate using between about five and eight gallons of heating oil a day during the winter season. This is just about a little more than a gallon an hour and is assuming that you have your home heating system running sporadically over the course of the day.
This brings the total amount of heating oil used throughout a local winter to between about 700 and 900 gallons.
There are multiple factors that play in a role in the exact amount of heating oil a home uses per year.
The first is the size of your home. It may go without saying, but bigger homes have more space and areas to heat and that requires using more energy and fuel.
Your home’s insulation also plays a significant role in how much fuel you’ll go through. A well insulated home prevents heat from escaping and cold air from coming inside. Therefore, it doesn’t take as much fuel to keep them warm. The opposite is true for a home that doesn’t have great insulation.
The age and condition of your heating system, how cold it gets where you live, your home’s layout and your home-heating patterns all impact a homeowner’s annual heating oil usage as well.
Oehlert Bros. can help keep your home here in Eastern Pennsylvania warm and comfortable all winter long. We offer our customers an Automatic Delivery option, heating oil pricing protections and payment options as well as service plans.
If you aren’t on our Automatic Delivery plan don’t forget to contact us when your oil tank hits the 25% mark to help avoid a fuel run-out!
Oehlert Bros. also happens to carry Bioheat Plus® Heating Oil – a cleaner and more eco-friendly alternative to traditional heating oil.
Contact Oehlert Bros. today to get the heating oil you need for the winter season.