How to Be Happy with Your Waste Oil Furnace

How to Be Happy with Your Waste Oil Furnace

Welcome to our blog about the wonderful world of waste oil furnaces!  It is our goal to educate our readers about how to find satisfaction with their waste oil furnaces.  To that end here are four tips that will help to make your waste oil furnace experience a happy one.

1.  Start out on the right foot by purchasing a waste oil furnace that truly was designed to burn waste oil.  Don’t make the mistake of buying a converted fuel oil furnace.     The Clean Burn waste oil furnace is NOT a converted fuel oil furnace.  In fact, Clean Burn furnaces are the only waste oil furnaces on the market truly designed to burn waste oil.  This allows you to maximize the efficiency of every gallon of oil.  You get more BTU’s out of a Clean Burn furnace!

2.  Have an authorized Clean Burn representative install your furnace.  How well your furnace is installed will have an impact on how well your furnace operates. Be sure to have a company with Clean Burn experience install your furnace.  ECO HEATING SYSTEMS is the authorized distributor of Clean Burn products for Maryland and Delaware. Our company has over twenty years of experience with Clean Burn furnaces and boilers.  Experience Does Matter.

3.   Make sure to put authorized fuels in your tank.  Just like an automobile needs the proper fuel in its tank, so does a waste oil furnace.  Customers who have an effective fuel management plan can have great success with their waste oil furnaces.

4.   An annual maintenance is an important part of caring for your waste oil furnace.   At ECO HEATING SYSTEMS we highly recommend that our customers have a yearly periodic maintenance on their furnaces.  This includes a block flush.  Clean Burn has designed block flushing equipment that will clean the carbon build-up from the pre-heater block in the burner.  Over time heat causes the oil to build up in your burner. It is very important that this block flush is done to keep the nozzle and the burner components clean so that the burner can fire efficiently and last longer.

New Clean Burn Warranty

At Eco Heating Systems things just keep getting better and better!  We are excited to introduce the new Clean Burn warranty.  Instead of a 10 year / 7500 hour pro-rated warranty, Clean Burn has just announced their new warranty to a straight 10 / 15,000 hour warranty.  That is right, they have literally doubled the number of hours covered under their warranty.  This tells you just how confident Clean Burn is about the durability of their furnaces and that means money in your pocket.  Isn’t it nice to know that in a “throw-away world” you still can find value for your dollar.

Just another reason why those who know say “Better get a Clean Burn!”

Spring is early!

Spring is early this year

Now is the smartest time to get your Clean Burn waste oil furnace serviced by your professional Clean Burn technician.

Farmers’ almanac and weather.com are both calling for some warm and rainy weather. It’s a good time to shut off that furnace for the summer.

Take advantage of our Early Bird Special while it lasts.

Call for details!

Toll Free 1-866-888-1103

If you have missed your annual maintenance or haven’t used your furnace much this year don’t neglect getting your furnace serviced.

On average you should change the oil in your vehicle every 4,000 miles or every 3 months. Likewise, maintenance on your furnace should be done every 800 hours or every year. An oil change maintains the functionality of your car, as the annual maintenance on your furnace maintains the performance and durability of your equipment. 

So far this month the Farmer’s Almanac has been correct in our weather forecast. They are predicting more snow in the next 2 weeks. It will be interesting to see if our local weather man or the Farmer’s Almanac has it right. What are your predictions? More snow? Warmer weather? Tell us what you think.

Farmer's Almanac says winter weather is on the way.

The Farmer’s Almanac is predicting real winter conditions for February.

8^th-11^th Wet snow mixed with rain in the Mid-Atlantic north through the New England areas, slushy accumulations of 4+” possible.

12^th-15^th Light snow, then fair skies.

16^th-19^th Unsettled.

20^th-23^rd Heavy wet snow sweeps up through the Mid-Atlantic area across the rest of the Northeast, 12+” possible, the fair, cold.

24^th-29^th Spotty snow/flurries; could turn steadier, heavier over eastern New England.

Don’t get left out in the cold!

Call Eco Heating Systems 1-866-888-1103 to find out when your annual maintenance is due.

Cold Weather Reminder

Reminder:  #1 reason for services calls this time of year.

 Cold weather is here so keep an eye on the oil levels in your tank. You will burn through your oil more quickly with these colder temperatures.

To avoid running out of fuel:

1.         Check your tank every day and keep your tank at least half full at all times. 

2.         Don’t let your used oil hauler take oil without your permission.

3.         Remember, the pickup tube is 10 to 12 inches of the bottom of your tank so it doesn’t pick up the junk that settles at the bottom of the tank.  As a result, it is easy to overestimate the amount of available oil in your tank.  

Preventative Maintenance

We hope you are pleased with your Clean Burn furnace.

We would like to share a few preventative maintenance thoughts with you.

Don’t run out of fuel

It has been our experience that on average 70% of new customer issues stem from poor fuel management. It is very important to keep sufficient fuel in your waste oil storage tank. This is the #1 one source of service calls in the winter. We recommend you keep a minimum of 20" of oil in your tank at all times. Never let your waste oil hauler take your oil supply below 1/2 tank during the heating season.

Contaminants

We highly recommend you put an Oil Control program onsite. You must avoid fluids such as antifreeze, water and chlorine. Providing a plan will prevent your furnace from shutting down or rotting from contaminants.

Air Compressor:

Always leave your air compressor running over night. There is not enough compressed air to assume it will run though the night, it will not. Be aware of water accumulation which may freeze your line or contaminate your oil.

Avoid frozen air lines
If you do not have operating compressed air, your Clean Burn furnace will not operate. There are two things you can do to prevent water in your air lines.

1) Install air dryers on your air compressor system and make sure the air dryers are operating.

2) Install an automatic water eliminator at the air compressor.

(Eco Heating Systems can provide a quotation to install an automatic water eliminator if you are having problems with water in your compressed air line.)

Acceptable Fuels for your Clean Burn heater
Crankcase oil, Transmission Fluid, New Fuel Oils #2, #4 & #5, Synthetic Used Oil, Hydraulic Fluid (up to 90 weight), Diesel Oil and Diesel Fuel (new or used)