Green Heat Services

At McCarthy Heating Oil, we believe a smaller carbon footprint is good for the planet and good for your savings account too!

Bioheat

Heating oil is now Bioheat, a blend of heating oil with vegetable oil that's the only heating fuel in Connecticut with renewable content. If you live in Connecticut and heat with oil, it's already in your tank! For more information, please visit www.bioheatnow.com.

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What is a Carbon Footprint?

Your carbon footprint is the direct effect your actions and lifestyle have on the environment in terms of carbon dioxide emissions. Every time you drive a car, use electricity or consume or use a product, you contribute to carbon dioxide emissions. This is problematic because the world's carbon emissions are at an all-time high, creating a thick "blanket" of gasses around our earth and causing our climate to change. We must all act now to reverse our growing carbon emissions or face irreversible damage to the world's environment.

What Can I Do to Reduce my Carbon Footprint?

McCarthy Heating Oil wants to help you do your part in conservation. Working together, we can make a difference! Below is a list of proven conservation tips:

Make sure your home heating equipment is properly maintained and cleaned
Have furnace filters replaced regularly
Caulk or weather-strip your doors and windows
Plug cracks in masonry walls and foundations or where pipes and wires enter your home
Keep drapes and shades closed at night in winter
On sunny winter days, open your drapes or shades to get the full benefit of the sun
Replace your fireplace's fire screen with glass doors and a convective grate to reduce the loss of warm air
Close your fireplace's damper when not in use
Insulate areas with the biggest air leaks: the attic, crawl space, or unheated basement
Make sure you use insulation with the right R-value and weather-strip the attic hatch or door entrance. Also, check the insulation in your exterior walls and floors.
Install programmable thermostats to adjust the temperature in your home automatically.
Install energy-efficient windows
Install wall outlet and switch plate gaskets to limit the flow of cold air
Don't turn your heat completely off overnight or during the day. (You may use more energy reheating your home than you saved by turning it off.) At night, lower your thermostat 4-6 degrees maximum
Set your hot water temperature to 110-120 degrees
Be sure to maintain proper humidity in your home
Replace your older heating equipment with new, higher efficiency equipment, and save 20-30% on your fuel bills
Make sure furniture and rugs don't block radiators or heating vents

Heating Oil - A Great Choice for Greener Heat

The oil industry has reduced its carbon footprint 40% in the last 30 years. This is an amazing statistic!

Whether you are purchasing an existing home, building a new one, or remodeling, you must decide on heating. You want your heat to be clean, comfortable, efficient, economical, dependable, environmentally friendly, safe, and versatile.

Oil heat is clean. In fact, it's 95% cleaner than it was in the 1970s. If properly adjusted and maintained, new oil heat systems create no soot, dirt, or odors in the home. Heating oil itself has been improving; in the past 20 years, the sulphur content of heating oil has been reduced from over 1% to an average of .25% resulting in a cleaner environment for all of us.
Oil heat is efficient and economical. Efficiency ratings on new oil heat systems normally range from 86%-87%. These higher efficiency ratings translate into cost savings on your home heating bills leaving more money in your budget.
Oil heating systems are versatile - heating with water, steam or warm air, or hydro-air, which uses both water and warm air in the same system. Oil heat systems can also provide heating and cooling and be fitted with air-cleaning equipment and humidifiers.
Oil heat can provide unlimited hot water.

We believe oil heat is a great choice!

Energy Efficiency Check-Up

An Energy Efficiency Check-up will help you cut costs and emissions. Enhancing efficiency may help you save up to 5% OFF your annual fuel bill. When your heating system runs at peak efficiency, it burns less fuel. That puts conservation to work. Anytime you conserve fuel, you: