Having your equipment cleaned and tuned is an easy, cost-efficient way to ensure you save money on your monthly heating bill. By having your equipment serviced, it will:
- Keep your system running at peak efficiency, saving you up to 10% on fuel
- Catch small problems before they turn into big ones
- Extend the life of your system
Oil-fired equipment accumulates soot on the inside, and your combustion efficiency will drop significantly if it’s not cleaned out. The burner needs an annual adjustment and many other parts slowly wear out and need to be replaced.
During an annual cleaning and tuning maintenance visit our technicians will:
- Check the primary control to make sure the burner shuts off with the safety function
- Replace the nozzle
- Replace the oil filter cartridge or install a completely new oil filter if there is none
- Replace the strainer in the oil pump
- Replace all the non-glazed or cracked porcelain insulators with the same style glazed porcelains
- Replace air filters on warm air furnaces
- Check the blower belt on warm air furnaces for tension as well as cracks and deterioration, and replace if needed.
- Oil all motors, i.e.: Burner, circulator, blower, etc.
- Oil or grease all bearings, i.e.: circulator, blower.
- Vacuum and brush boiler or furnace as well as immediate area around unit. Make certain that the smoke pipe is brushed and vacuumed completely. Pull the smoke pipe down and clean the base of the chimney.
- Clean burner exterior and interior; including hub-fan blades, burner housing, blast tube and cad cell.
- Remove and clean probe-type Low-Water-Cut-Offs in steam systems.
- Test Low-Water-Cut-Off while burner is running by draining water through blow down valve (burner must cut out when water level drops).
- Tune burner to maximum combustion efficiency while maintaining stable fire.
- Test all transformers with transformer testers. Replace the 10,000 volt models if they put out 9,000 volts or less.
- Do complete combustion efficiency test and record on service tag, including the final efficiency percentage.
- Remove any old parts from around the immediate area and discard properly.
- Check several times to ensure proper ignition, burner and relay operation.
- Wipe off top of boiler or furnace.
- Leave general area neater than when we arrived.
On average, a cleaning & tuning takes just under two hours, and we can schedule it at your convenience.
This annual maintenance is completely covered, parts and labor, under all of our Service Plans.
Oil Fired Water Heaters: An Important Note:
The best oil-fired water heaters are designed with what is called “cathodic protection” of the tank, to prevent corrosion: Sacrificial anode rods are submersed in the water of the tank to divert corrosion from the tank itself. These anode rods should be replaced about every five years. “If you wish us to do this job, please call us at your earliest convenience so we can schedule the work sometime at your convenience in the next few weeks. We will only need access to the basement, and it shouldn’t take more than an hour from start to finish.”