Avoid Heating Oil Run-Outs With Automatic Delivery

It’s easy to forget about checking the gauge on your heating oil tank, especially with all we have on the go these days. The problem here in New England is that weather changes can be fast and extreme; if you’re not careful, you could end up on the wrong end of a no-heat emergency.

That’s problematic in several ways, the most obvious of which is being without heat in your Rhode Island home. But the problems don’t end there: for one thing, you’ll have to pay extra for an emergency heating oil delivery. For another, you may run into problems down the road as the system-clogging sludge from the bottom of your tank gets drawn into your fuel lines.

The bottom line here? Running out of heating oil is something you definitely want to avoid. The good news is that you can make run-outs much less likely when you sign up for automatic delivery from Vaughn Oil.

How Automatic Delivery Works

If you’re not familiar with automatic fuel delivery, here’s the low-down:

• Automatic delivery works by calculating an estimate based on your past usage and the current weather (based on a “degree day” formula; when your tank reaches about one-quarter full, we will schedule your delivery.
• As an Automatic Delivery customer, you will receive priority service during periods of high fuel demand; as a Will Call customer, you may have to wait for your heating oil delivery.
• With automatic fuel delivery, you will never pay for heating oil that you don’t use, and you will never pay a fee for delivery. There is no fee charged for automatic delivery because it benefits us, too: if we know when you need heating oil, we can schedule our delivery routes more efficiently, which means we can serve more customers and avoid having to divert crews to deal with emergency run-outs.

Let Vaughn Oil take the hassle out of managing your home heating oil supply with automatic delivery for your Rhode Island home. Contact us today to learn more, or to make the switch from Will Call.