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Home Heating Costs are Increased by Rising Oil Prices, but also by Rushed Service
Why some heating service techs don't tune your system
How to cut home heating bills - tips & book on how to reduce heating cost
Specific tips to significantly cut heating costs
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How Rising Oil Price and Rushed Heating Service Increase Home Heating Cost
As oil prices have continued to climb as home owners are more ready to look again at the economy operation of their oil burner, Mike shifted focus of sales of his
CD to the money savings aspect of heating service and tuning. This was a lucky move for consumers.
It's the homeowner who pays the oil bill, not the service technician who tunes your boiler. Even though most service techs take pride in their work and work to do a good
job of cleaning and tuning the system, Mike found that often service techs were rushing through the process and leaving unsafe or unsatisfactory conditions.
There are several reasons for this, one of which is that the techs are usually over-scheduled and over-worked during the heating season.
A heating service technician during the winter months may be expected to make 8 or 12 service calls in a day. It's impossible to perform a thorough, detailed cleanout and
tune-up in just a few minutes.
So sometimes the technician will see a system that seems to be pretty clean and running pretty well, and s/he will just do the basics of filter and nozzle change.
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