Eastern Maine Oil
9 Railroad St, P.O. Box 474, Newport, Maine, United States

Eastern Maine Oil is a new, growing business looking to provide customers with the lowest heating fuel rates possible.  Delivering #2 Heating Oil and Kerosene to greater Newport and surrounding areas. 

Preventing Home Heating Oil From Freezing

If you’re like most people living in cold-weather climates, once the temperature starts to drop, you don’t care how your home heating system works. You just care that it works and works well. Come late November, the last thing you want is for your oil-tank heating system to break down or suffer from reduced efficiency, just as temperatures are starting to drop and heating oil prices are adjusting to their seasonal highs. That’s why it’s essential to maintain both the system and the heating oil it burns. Using a home heating oil treatment as a preventative measure can help ensure that your heating system produces ample heat and maintains its efficiency throughout the winter.

The Cost of Preventative Maintenance 

Owning and maintaining a home is expensive, so homeowners are often dubious when it comes to spending money for “increased efficiency” or “higher performance.” Nevertheless, losing your heat in the middle of the winter can lead to some very costly solutions, including calling out a repair company, replacing all or part of your heating system and finding alternative accommodations while you’re waiting for your heat to come back online. In addition, there’s the inconvenience of dealing with an unexpected repair during the busy holiday season. Heating oil additives not only allow your oil burn more efficiently, they also help to protect your entire oil-burning home heating system from several of the threats that can cause it to perform poorly or break down during the winter. These include oil freezing and bacterial contamination.

Another petroleum product sometimes used in heating systems is kerosene, which is close in composition to diesel. Your home heating oil system, however, was designed to burn diesel. Don’t put kerosene in your oil tank without first consulting the manufacturer or a home heating system technician to determine how this will affect the safety and performance of your unit. Any other substitution can cause the unit to suffer loss of efficiency or a complete malfunction. It’s important to note that just because you always buy your home heating oil from a reputable supplier, doesn’t mean your unit will always function properly. Certain internal and external pollutants and contaminants can invade your system and are usually not an indication of the quality of the material you use in your oil-burning system. Mixing a quality additive into your home heating system, however, is something that can help to prevent heating oil gelling (waxing) regardless of where you buy your fuel.