4 Main Benefits of Using Oil to Heat Your Home

Posted: Jul 29, 2012
Author: Bumgarner Oil

Furnaces, boilers, space heaters, heat pumps, fireplaces . . . There are many different options for keeping your home warm during the winter, but oil is one of the most popular. Here are 4 benefits of choosing oil over other options to heat your home:

1.Oil can warm your home very quickly. Since oil burns at about 300 degrees higher than natural gas, you won’t have to wait very long after you turn on the heat to stop shivering.

2.Home heating oil is safe.  If you were to drop a lit match into a container of heating oil, it would go out—not explode, like gas would. Heating oil doesn’t burn when it’s in a liquid state. It is also very rare to get a carbon monoxide leak in your home from heating oil without visible warnings like smoke or soot.

3.Oil burns much cleaner now than it used to. Today’s home oil burns about 95% cleaner than it did in 1970. If your oil heater is properly functioning, it will not pump any dirt, soot, or odors in your home.

4.Oil heating is efficient. Even though home oil prices are currently on the rise, you still get the most bang for your buck with this heating option. It is much more efficient than gas or electricity. Because of increased efficiency of home oil systems, consumers use 6 billion fewer gallons of heating oil each year today than they did 40 years ago.

If you’d like to learn more about how you can benefit from heating your home with oil, contact us at Bumgarner Oil.