Automatic Delivery

Automatic Delivery

"Honey!! We're out of oil!!"

Now what do you do???

More than likely, you will wait 24 hours or more until an oil company can respond to this type of emergency. Scaran, however, offers a proactive system of automatic delivery based on the Degree Day System. Here's how it works:

By the term ‘degree-day’, we refer to the difference between the temperature at which no more heat is needed (usually 65 degrees) and the average temperature of the day ( [High + Low] / 2 ) . For example, if on a winter day the high was 40 degrees and the low temperature is 20 degrees the average temperature would be 30 degrees (40+20=60, 60/2=30). 65 minus 30 is 35, which means that we have seen 35 degree-days go by.

It is on a fairly more expanded version of this model that we base our expectations of who is in need of oil.

Based on past deliveries every customer has a K factor, this is the number of degree days which elapse for every gallon of oil your burner consumes (In simpler terms, degree-days per gallon).
If you play around with this formula, you will realize that the higher the K factor is, the less oil will be consumed. Our area typically has somewhere around 5000 degree days per year so the house with a K factor of 6 should use about 834 gallons per year and likewise a house with a K factor of 10 would use about 500 gallons per year. A house with a K factor of 1 would use about 5000 gallons per year.

Interested in taking the headache out of these formulas and scheduling your own oil deliveries? Contact ustoday and inquire about our Automatic Delivery Program!

Our knowledgable staff are always here to help you: Call (718) 984-2466 today!