What is the average heating oil consumption for a home during the summer months in New England?
I am trying to figure out if I am burning an unusually high amount of heating oil during the summer months. I had my 250 gallon tank filled in mid April and it ran out of oil today (10/12). 41 gallons a month seems like a lot of oil for heating water during the Spring, Summer and Fall. It is just my wife and I living in the house and we take average length showers once a day. Please let me know if my consumption is too high.
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Rob G
24 Oct 2009
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If you have your hot water heater as one of the zones of a hot water Central home heating system, your whole house furnace is running just to heat your hot water, in which case, that consumption would be about right.
If you have an oil fired hot water heater that consumption rate is way high.
Also you should check for leaks, and if the fill pipe is accessible to strangers, you may have a theft problem- get a locking cap.