Oil Furnaces
There are many different ways to heat your home during the cold months here in rural Saskatchewan. We at AquaTemp are knowledgeable and have experience with all of them. Call us at during our business hours to discuss the best one for your Saskatoon, SK, home. Lately we’ve been fielding residential calls regarding oil-fired systems, or oil furnaces.
To understand how these oil-fired systems, or oil furnaces, work, you need to know there are only three ways for them to distribute heat:
- Warm air through vents
- Hot water through baseboards
- Steam through radiators
When a room in your home gets colder, falling below the temperature you’ve set on your thermostat, the thermostat signals your oil furnace to provide heat. This begins the process for your oil furnace.
Your system pulls oil from the tank (where it’s been delivered), sending it to the burner via a pump. There it becomes a fine mist mixed with air. This fuel/air mixture injects into the burner where it’s ignited in the combustion chamber.
From there, depending on which one of the three types of systems from above you have, the system works differently to send the heat throughout your Saskatoon, SK, home. In the two types of water-based systems (hot water and steam), water is heated in either a cast iron or steel boiler before moving through your home. In the hot water system, radiators and baseboards disperse the heated circulated water. In a steam system, water condenses to steam and runs through the pipes to the radiators.
In a warm air system, your furnace heats the air, and a blower forces the heated air though the ducts to the vents in your floors or walls. The furnace draws the air back through a return duct, repeating the cycle continuously. The fuel-and-air-combustion emissions exit the system by way of a flue pipe running out through your chimney.
With an oil furnace, oil must be delivered to your home. It’s not dispensed through a pipe like a gas furnace. AquaTemp can take care of that task for you. Call us at 306-370-8678, and we’d be happy to go over what’s entailed in oil delivery.
Some customers like to have their oil delivered right before the cold season hits to take advantage of lower oil costs. Others like to wait until they actually need to use their furnace before they have it delivered. Either way, we can set up a schedule that works best for your needs.
If you have an older oil furnace, it may be time to upgrade. We at AquaTemp can help you with that as well. A newer, more efficient oil furnace can reduce oil consumption by up to 25 percent, making it a worthwhile investment to consider.
Though some people are hesitant to use oil furnaces due to the oil factor with the environment, according Canadian Centre for Energy Information, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per barrel of oil produced in the oil sands have fallen 36% since 2000.
Call Your Heating Experts Today
AquaTemp is pleased to offer expert service to all our customers in Saskatoon, SK. Give us a call today at 306-370-8678 or request service online today. We love creating healthy homes!
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