we live on the second floor of a standard triple decker. this means we have the advantage of "insulation" from the first and third floors. We keep our thermostat set at 58 during the day, with the exception of two hours when we wake up (it goes up to 65), and then from 6pm to 8pm it goes to 65, then down to 58 over night again. On average, we will get one delivery a year (although last year we didn't get one), and it's usually about 100 gallons (so cost depends on cost of oil). We do have a membership to MassEnergy (used to be Mass Oil Consumer Alliance), and this winter we got a new, more energy efficient furnace and had the outside walls insulated. I doubt we used much oil at all this winter because of these improvements.
I have no idea if that is typical or not, but that has been our experience over the past 10 years.
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we live on the second floor of a standard triple decker. this means we have the advantage of "insulation" from the first and third floors. We keep our thermostat set at 58 during the day, with the exception of two hours when we wake up (it goes up to 65), and then from 6pm to 8pm it goes to 65, then down to 58 over night again. On average, we will get one delivery a year (although last year we didn't get one), and it's usually about 100 gallons (so cost depends on cost of oil). We do have a membership to MassEnergy (used to be Mass Oil Consumer Alliance), and this winter we got a new, more energy efficient furnace and had the outside walls insulated. I doubt we used much oil at all this winter because of these improvements.
I have no idea if that is typical or not, but that has been our experience over the past 10 years.