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What Happens When You Run Out of Heating Oil?

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There are so many chores to be done around the house in the winter. With a long to-do list, it’s easy for out-of-sight, out-of-mind tasks to slip through the cracks. Checking your oil tank gauge is easy to forget until you run out of heating oil in the middle of a Long Island winter. What happens to your furnace when you run out of oil, and what should you do when it does?

How To Optimize Humidity in the Winter

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While winters on Long Island can vary in the amount of snowfall and accumulation we get, what doesn’t change is dealing with cold, often freezing, temperatures. This gives us a compelling reason to make sure we have a well-maintained home heating system with plenty of heating oil to get us through the season. All of that said, we do still want to be mindful of how much heating oil we use and how to maximize […]

How To Read Your Oil Tank

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Now that we’re firmly in the middle of winter, many of us are finding ourselves very thankful for our home heating. And this winter may be one that we’re grateful for our home heating in particular as we are likely looking at below-average temperatures compared to recent years despite the possibility of less snowfall. This is a result of La Niña conditions which often create colder weather in the northeast. Knowing we’re going to be […]

How to Manage Temperatures When You Have a House Full of Guests?

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The festive season is upon us! Hanukkah, Yule/Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Zarathosht Diso, and Bodhi Day are all clustered together in December — the major holidays of the major religions. It is a time of food, drink, and good company. Family gatherings abound and having one’s house filled with merry makers can make it tricky to keep the ambient temperatures comfortable, especially during parties when the doors are frequently opening and closing.