Waking up in the middle of the night to a freezing cold house is the home equivalent to running out of gas on the road – it’s incredibly inconvenient and potentially dangerous. Running out of oil can let your home’s temperature plummet, creating the risk of frozen or burst pipes in the walls.
If your oil tank has a gauge, look at the position of the small floating piece inside the gauge. The lower the piece is in the tube the lower your oil level. If you don’t have a gauge, insert a long oil stick into the tank until it just so hits the bottom of the tank, then pull it out and measure how high up on the stick the oil goes.
