If you follow the news, you may have heard that they are banning gas stoves in states like New York and California. The truth is that those bans only apply to new constructions. No one is being forced to give up their gas stove. And while there is a similar bill proposed in Massachusetts, again, it only applies to eliminating the installation of gas stoves in new constructions. That means no one is coming to take your gas stove (or any gas appliance) out of your current home.
In response to the gas bans in effect and those being proposed, Tucker Perkins, president of PERC (Propane Education & Research Council), had this to say, “Rather than gas bans, states should focus on natural gas supply chains and mitigate potential hazards…. This, along with proper installation, ventilation, and yearly checkups by qualified technicians constitutes a common-sense approach to addressing health and safety concerns around gas appliances.”
Furthermore, there are many benefits to having natural gas home appliances.
With a new high-efficiency gas heating system, you’ll enjoy the following benefits immediately:
Natural gas offers some additional advantages. In addition to providing efficient and comfortable home heating, it can power appliances like water heaters and clothes dryers more efficiently than electricity. And it offers you precise temperature control when cooking.
Natural Gas offers your Massachusetts or New Hampshire home a number of benefits over alternatives like electricity.
Lombardi Energy is here to help make your North Shore home as comfortable as possible. We staff highly trained technicians who are licensed and experienced in a wide variety of areas when it comes to natural gas services for your home.
Lombardi Energy handles natural gas installation, maintenance, and natural gas conversion. If you want to have or already have a natural gas system in your home, come to Lombardi Energy.
At Lombardi Energy, we strive to offer the most energy-efficient equipment and approaches possible. To that end, we offer professional natural gas installation of gas-fired boilers, furnaces, water heaters, and heat pumps.
When you’re ready for a new natural gas system, Lombardi makes it simple. Here are the steps:
Lombardi Energy delivers comfort in Amesbury, Byfield, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Salisbury, Seabrook, West Newbury, and the surrounding areas in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Let us help you with your natural gas equipment. We’re here to conduct installations, maintenance, and conversions as well as answer your questions and offer solutions.
Contact Lombardi Energy today for timely, reliable, and friendly service.
Are you the one managing your family’s finances? If you are then you keep an eye on the price of things and it’s hard not to notice when things get more expensive. And that’s been the case for a lot of the things you need for your New England home lately. Supply and demand along with some other factors affect how much everything costs. That includes the cost of heating oil. It helps to understand the factors affecting the price you pay for heating oil. Keep reading to find out what they are.
The heating oil you use in your Massachusetts or New Hampshire home is like any other commodity. There are a number of variables that influence how much it costs from day to day, week to week, or month to month. Let’s take a look at some of those factors so that you’ll have a better understanding of why you sometimes notice price fluctuations on your monthly bills.
Here are some of the factors that determine the cost of heating oil:
Lombardi Oil & Gas delivers comfort and peace of mind to our customers in Amesbury, Byfield, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Salisbury, Seabrook, West Newbury, and surrounding areas in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Are you ready to become part of the Lombardi Oil & Gas family? Contact us today to sign up for automatic delivery or to learn more.
Take a moment to think about how much your water heater does for your North Shore-area home. You rely on it for warm and hot water for bathing, cooking, laundry, washing dishes, washing hands, and more. Water heating accounts for a significant percentage of your home’s energy costs. In fact, for the average home, heating water is responsible for up to 30% of the home’s energy costs.
With the winter season just around the corner, your water heater is going to have to work even harder. That’s because it’s in a colder environment, the water it needs to heat is starting off colder, and your household is probably using more hot water.
Given the large impact heating water has on your energy bills each month, it’s extremely important to have a water heater that’s as efficient as possible. Otherwise, you’ll be losing money and energy due to lower efficiency.
The best way to keep your water heater running at peak efficiency is to have it receive regular professional maintenance. Just one annual maintenance visit for your water heater will save you money all year long.
Lombardi Energy Services offers a water heater service plan as an add-on to our other service plans. Our water heater service plan includes an annual tune-up and 15% off parts and labor costs (other than a system replacement).
Don’t wait until your water heater breaks down to replace it. When a water heater fails, it can cause thousands of dollars in water damage. Additionally, you’ll be without hot water until your new water heater is installed. You can save yourself a lot of stress and expense by keeping an eye on your water heater and making sure it’s doing its job properly. If it isn’t, call the experts at Lombardi Energy Services. If you’re in need of water heater repair or water heater maintenance, we’ll help you out. And if it turns out you need a new water heater, we can take care of that for you as well.
Fortunately, water heater breakdowns don’t usually happen without any warning. There are usually some clear signs of trouble. Here are five signs your water heater probably isn’t doing its job and needs professional care:
Lombardi Energy Services delivers comfort to our customers in Northeastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Whether you need a new water heater or simply want the water heater you already have maintained or repaired so it’s running optimally, we’re here to help.
Contact Lombardi Energy Services today for reliable and friendly service.
How old is your heating oil storage tank? If you aren’t sure, or if it’s approaching the thirty-year mark, you should definitely start keeping an eye out for the warning signals that it’s hitting the end of its lifespan.
Regularly do a visual inspection for dents, leaks or signs of corrosion. You may want to consider scheduling a professional maintenance check once a year. And if you think that your tank may be nearing the end of its life, we strongly recommend replacing it before winter.
Why? Because if you decide to replace your heating oil tank after you’ve filled it up for the winter, it will be a much bigger job. And if you think you can get one more winter out of it, and your full tank fails, you’ll be dealing with a heating oil spill, which is a much bigger problem than just replacing your tank.
Here are the telltale signs that your heating oil tank is leaking—or could start soon.
There are several things that can influence how long your oil tank will last: Age, maintenance and construction are the main factors. The good news is that modern heating oil storage tanks have come a long way, and a new tank will provide decades or virtually leak-proof performance compared to older types.
Here’s what you need to consider if you think it’s time to replace your heating oil tank:
Waiting until your tank fails is not the best way to find out it’s time to replace it. The hassle and expense of remediating an oil spill is a lot bigger than the cost of simply replacing an aging tank.
If you think it’s time to replace your tank, contact the pros at Lombardi today to learn more about expert oil tank replacement, installation and removal in coastal Massachusetts.
Lombardi Energy is here to help make your North Shore home as comfortable as possible. We staff highly trained technicians who are licensed and experienced in a wide variety of areas when it comes to natural gas services for your home.
Lombardi Energy handles natural gas installation, maintenance, and natural gas conversion . If you want to have or already have a natural gas system in your home, come to Lombardi Energy.
At Lombardi Energy, we strive to offer the most energy-efficient equipment and approaches possible. To that end, we offer professional natural gas installation of gas-fired boilers, furnaces, water heaters, and heat pumps.
The latest natural gas heating systems can reduce your energy consumption by a significant percentage. With a new high-efficiency gas heating system, you’ll enjoy the following benefits immediately:
It’s important to use professionals for the installation or conversion of your system. There are a number of advantages to using professionals. When your new system is installed by the professionals at Lombardi, you’ll enjoy the following advantages:
When you’re ready for a new natural gas system, Lombardi makes it simple. Here are the steps:
Once your new natural gas system is installed, give yourself peace of mind by enrolling in a Lombardi Energy service plan. You’ll get 24/7 emergency service on your natural gas system, so there’s no need to worry. We’ll be there for you whenever you need us. You’ll also enjoy savings as well as routine maintenance visits that will maximize your system’s safety and efficiency potential.
Lombardi Energy delivers comfort in Amesbury, Byfield, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Salisbury, Seabrook, West Newbury, and the surrounding areas in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Let us help you with your natural gas equipment. We’re here to conduct installations, maintenance, and conversions as well as answer your questions and offer solutions.
Contact Lombardi Energy today for timely, reliable, and friendly service.
Now that summer is here and the weather is heating up, you’re going to be relying on your air conditioning to keep everyone in your New England home cool and comfortable. That can’t happen if your AC isn’t blowing cold air. If you’re not getting adequate cooling from your central air or ductless mini-split system, Lombardi Energy Services can help.
There are a couple things that could be going wrong if your AC isn’t blowing cold air. Here are a few common problems:
Some of the problems outlined above can be easy to fix yourself (like putting new batteries in your thermostat if it takes batteries). Other problems, like a leak, can be difficult to identify and/or address, and are best dealt with by an HVAC professional.
The best way to ensure that you don’t end up with an air conditioning system that isn’t blowing cold air it to get regular maintenance. And you don’t want to wait until your AC lets you down on a really hot day. Now is a better time to get maintenance for your AC.
Whether you have central air or a ductless mini-split, a maintenance visit from Lombardi Energy will keep your system running smoothly for you all summer long. In addition to eliminating any potential problems before they get more serious, annual maintenance visits improve your system’s efficiency (which saves you money on your energy bills) and extends the life of your system.
Here’s what Lombardi Energy does as part of an annual air conditioning maintenance visit:
After an annual maintenance visit from Lombardi Energy, you’ll have cool air keeping you and your household comfortable all summer. And you’ll know your system isn’t just cooling your home, you’ll know it’s doing it as efficiently as possible. That’s good for your budget and the environment. The more efficient your system runs the less it costs to keep it running and the less energy it utilizes to cool your home.
Whether you need AC equipment installed, serviced, or repaired, Lombardi Energy delivers comfort to our customers in Amesbury, Byfield, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Salisbury, Seabrook, West Newbury, and surrounding areas in Northeastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. And with Lombardi Energy, you always get friendly, reliable, and expert service.
Contact Lombardi Energy today for more information or to request an AC maintenance visit. And make it a comfortably cool summer.
If you forgo the maintenance on your heating system for too long, you could end up with some unexpected problems. One of the things that can happen is a build-up of thick black gunk in the fuel filter. That gunk is commonly referred to as heating oil sludge. It’s created when bacteria oxidize the fuel in your tank.
Where do the bacteria come from? They live in the fuel and grow wherever there’s water present. When your tank isn’t full, water condenses on the walls of your tank if there’s a temperature change outside. It’s a common occurrence when a cooler night is followed by a hotter day.
Why is heating oil sludge a problem? Heating oil sludge limits the efficiency of your heating system. And, if left untreated, it could even cause the breakdown of your oil-fired heating system.
If the sludge in your tank gets into the fuel mix and then into the supply line, it will clog your filters and cause problems for your heating system.
Fortunately, you don’t have to live with heating oil sludge. There are ways to prevent it. Here are five ways to prevent heating oil sludge:
Now that things are finally warming up, you may be tempted to stop thinking about your heating oil tank or to let it run down to less than you would in the winter. As we already discussed, that’s not a good idea. Especially since condensation is more likely to happen as the temperatures rise. Keep your tank at least half full all year long to help prevent an excessive buildup of heating oil sludge.
At Lombardi Oil & Gas, we offer our customers several ways to manage their bills so that keeping a fuller tank year-round isn’t a financial burden. Here are some of the payment plans, pricing plans and discounts we offer our customers:
So avoid the problems (and additional costs) that can arise when you allow your heating oil tank’s level to get too low. With so many ways to save on and manage your heating oil bills, it’s a good idea to keep your tank full all year long.
Lombardi Oil & Gas delivers comfort and peace of mind to our customers in Massachusetts or New Hampshire in Amesbury, Byfield, Merrimac, Newbury, Newburyport, Salisbury, Seabrook, West Newbury, and surrounding areas.
Contact Lombardi Energy Services today to sign up Heating Oil Plan, to enroll in one of our payment plans, or to learn more.
While all of us in the Massachusetts and New Hampshire areas know how important heat is in the dead of winter, we also know how important air conditioning is for those warm, hot and humid spring and summer months. Lombardi Energy has been offering reliable air conditioning services to members of the greater Newburyport community for over 60 years. Currently, we are proud to offer our customers an air conditioning service plan that helps air conditioners last longer and operate at peak performance level.
A quality and reliable air-conditioning system is not cheap and regular payments on maintenance and repairs can really start to add up. The air conditioning service plan that Lombardi Energy offers is a financially smart package that helps to cover maintenance costs as well as repair service costs for your central air system or ductless mini-split system. The annual fee for the package includes an annual air conditioning tune-up in addition to 15% off labor costs and equipment parts. You can also combine the air conditioning service plan with one of our heating oil service plans. Not only does this service save you money, but it is also a great choice when it comes to energy efficiency seeing as it helps reduce carbon emissions.
The annual system maintenance that customers with this plan receive includes:
Whether or not you are partaking in Lombardi Energy’s air conditioning service plan, there is routine maintenance you can, and should, do to ensure that your home’s air conditioning system is working to the best of its ability. These include:
o Replacing old air conditioner units (usually 15 years or older), which will quickly translate to saving you money
If you are in the greater Newburyport communities, Lombardi Energy can help get your air conditioning system ready for summer. We offer reliable and quality air-conditioning installation and maintenance. Contact us today and let us know how we can help!
When it comes to keeping our homes clean and comfortable, things like vacuuming, dusting and washing dirty dishes easily come to mind. Ensuring proper indoor air quality(IAQ) is often further down on the list even though it’s as equally important as the everyday household chores we do.
Considering the average individual spends almost 90% of his or her time indoors and typically takes in about 15,000 quarts of air per day, we are naturally prone to inhaling air that isn’t necessarily so good for us. However, it’s important to ensure that you’re breathing quality, clean air in your home because:
While your home’s IAQ may not naturally be up to par, do not fear – there are ways to help it improve and no major modifications need to be made. The solutions are typically quite simple and often times only involve putting more thought into the household products that you purchase for your home.
Here’s how you can easily improve your home’s air quality with little stress:
You can also add a whole-house humidifier. These help keep a home’s IAQ healthy by regulating moisture levels and decreasing mold and mildew growth.
The benefits of a whole-house humidifier do not end with improving the health of your home’s air. Healthy air will keep you healthier as well as you’ll be less susceptible to illnesses such as the common cold, respiratory issues and the flu. The proper amount of moisture that a whole-house humidifier provides ensures that the air isn’t too dry, which helps your throat, nose, asthma, allergies, furniture, floors and artwork.
In addition to the health benefits, you’ll also see cost savings with a whole-house humidifier since your home will feel warmer and you will, in turn, be using less heat.
Lombardi Energy Services is able and ready to help you improve your Newburyport-area home’s IAQ. Contact us to learn more about whole-house humidifiers and the service plans we offer today.
Water heating accounts for a lot of your home’s energy costs. In fact, for the average home, heating water is responsible for up to 30% of the home’s energy costs. Think about how much your water heater does for your Newburyport-area household. You depend on it for warm and hot water for bathing, laundry, washing dishes, washing hands, and more. And the winter season is when your water heater has to work even harder. That’s because it’s in a colder environment, the water it needs to heat is starting off colder, and your household is probably using more hot water.
Given the large impact heating water has on your energy bills each month, it’s extremely important to have a water heater that’s as efficient as possible. Otherwise you’ll be losing money and energy due to lower efficiency.
The best way to keep your water heater running at peak efficiency is to see that it receives regular professional maintenance. One annual maintenance visit for your water heater will save you money all year long.
Lombardi Energy services offers a water heater service plan as an add-on to our other service plans. Our water heater service plan includes an annual tune-up and 15% off parts and labor costs (other than a system replacement).
Maintenance is an integral part of keeping your water heater running as efficiently as possible. And Lombardi Energy can take care of all your oil-fired water heater needs. What does a water heater need in terms of maintenance? Let’s take a closer look.
Tankless water heaters need to be cleaned as a means of offsetting the effects of hard water. Any buildup of minerals in your water heater can lower its efficiency and longevity. Hard water doesn’t have to be common in your area for a mineral build-up to occur. All tap water contains minerals that can accumulate over time.
Conventional or storage water heaters require more maintenance than tankless water heaters. They need to be flushed twice a year (more often if there’s a hard water issue). The tank needs to be drained and emptied of sediment. Regular checks need to be made to for leaks, the anode must be checked, and the temperature release valve needs to be tested.
Don’t take your water heater for granted. It’s too important a part of your North Shore-area home. In addition to helping it run efficiently, maintenance for your water heater will also minimize the need for repairs. Let Lombardi Energy Services keep your water heater in top working order. Or let us help you upgrade to a new and more efficient system. You can depend on us for all your oil-fired water heater needs. We handle water heater installation, maintenance, and repair.
Lombardi Energy Services delivers comfort to our customers in Northeastern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire. Whether you need a new water heater or simply want the water heater you already have maintained or repaired so it’s running optimally, we’re here to help.
Contact Lombardi Energy Services today for reliable and friendly service.
