When should I buy heating oil?

With Labor Day just a few weeks away, the glorious colors of autumn in Vermont are inching closer – and before you know it the air will be crisp enough that you’ll need an assist from your home heating system to take the edge off on those chilly late summer nights and mornings.

While you’re waiting for all that to happen, it’s a good idea to get ahead of the crowd and order your heating oil or propane (or both, if yours is a dual-fuel home).

Summer Is a great time to schedule a propane or heating oil delivery: with more people away enjoying their summer getaways, you’re more likely to get a convenient delivery time, and with low demand for fuel, you’ll often get your fuel at a better price than you will in-season (especially this year, when pre-season heating oil prices have been quite low).

How else can you make your life easier in the coming heating season? Here are four suggestions.

• Lock in your propane or heating oil price – Our Pre-buy / Fixed Rate program– available for both heating oil and propane – will help make your heating bills more predictable by locking in the price for your fuel all winter long.*
• Stay organized. Avoid purchasing your fuel at the last minute. One easy way to do this? Sign up for Automatic Delivery from Jack F. Corse.
• Maintain your heating equipment. Professionally maintained heating equipment uses less fuel while providing more comfort and better performance. Keeping up with annual tune-ups also means your heating equipment will run more reliably through the long VT winter.
• Upgrade old heating equipment before heating season starts. The efficiency of heating oil equipment drops considerably over the course of its lifetime; in fact, a 12- to 15-year-old furnace or boiler could be running at less than two-thirds the efficiency of a new system. If your heating system is well into its second decade, it’s probably sensible to upgrade, especially if you are faced with a costly heating system repair.

Take advantage of our Pre-buy / Fixed Rate program and protect yourself from spiking fuel prices this heating season. But hurry – enrollment in our price protection programs closes in September!

Contact us today to become a Jack F. Corse customer and get the most reliable heating oil and propane delivery service in our Vermont service area!

*Please note that once fuel is purchased, we cannot change the price or the number of gallons you have secured.