Do you repair gas heating systems in an emergency, or only oil?

Both. The same technicians repair oil burners and both oil and gas boilers and furnaces, so one call covers whatever is in your basement.

How fast can a technician get to my house?

The same day in most cases. The phone is answered 24 hours a day, including weekends and holidays, and no-heat calls go to the front of the line when the temperature is below freezing.

What does an emergency heating repair call cost?

A service call is $189 plus any parts. Calls outside regular hours, weekends and holidays included, carry an additional charge, and you get the full price before the truck leaves. There is nothing to sign and no membership.

The burner reset button keeps tripping. Should I keep pressing it?

No. Press it once. Each extra press pumps more unburned oil into the combustion chamber, which can turn a small repair into a cleanup. If the burner locks out again, leave it off and call.

My boiler is leaking water. Is that an emergency?

Yes. Turn off the burner at the emergency switch, and if you know where the water feed valve is, close it. A leak from the boiler body or a relief valve that will not stop dripping calls for a technician the same day, before the water reaches anything electrical or the boiler runs dry.

I ran out of oil. Can you still get the heat on?

Yes. Once there is oil in the tank the burner usually needs to be bled and restarted, because air in the line stops it from firing. The technician primes the pump and checks the flame before leaving. A clogged filter gets replaced at the same visit. Our heating oil delivery page explains how to order a fill.

Do I need a service contract to get emergency service?

No. Anyone on Long Island or in Queens can call, whether we have been to the house before or not. You pay for the visit and the parts, nothing else.

What if the system is too old to be worth repairing?

The technician will tell you on the spot, with the repair price next to the replacement price, and the repair is still yours to choose. If you go with a new system, financing is available and the old unit is removed as part of the job.

Emergency Heating Repair Long Island

Heat out? Calls are answered 24 hours a day and a NORA-certified technician comes out the same day anywhere on Long Island or in Queens, with the price quoted before the truck leaves.

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Emergency Heating Repair for Oil and Gas Systems

You get one number to call no matter what heats your house. The same trucks that handle a locked-out oil burner at 2 a.m. also handle a gas boiler that will not fire and a furnace blowing cold air. Here is what the emergency crew works on:

Oil burners of every make, including Beckett, Riello and Carlin. See the emergency oil burner service page for burner-specific problems.
Steam and hot water boilers, oil-fired or gas-fired. Our boiler repair page covers leaks, low water cutoffs and circulators in more detail.
Warm air furnaces, oil or gas. The emergency furnace repair page goes into igniters, blower motors and limit switches.
The controls around them: thermostats, aquastats, zone valves, oil pumps, nozzles, electrodes and fuel filters.

If you are not sure which page you need, this is the one. Describe what the system is doing when you call and the dispatcher sends the right technician with the right parts.

Checks to Make Before You Call for Emergency Heating Service

A few of the no-heat calls we get are fixed by the homeowner before the truck arrives, which saves the $189 service call. Take two minutes on these first:

The thermostat is set to Heat and a few degrees above the room temperature. A dead battery in a digital thermostat shuts the whole system down.
The red emergency switch, usually a plate at the top of the basement stairs or beside the boiler, is in the On position. Guests and kids flip it by mistake.
The breaker for the heating system has not tripped. Reset it once; if it trips again, leave it off.
The oil tank gauge shows oil. A gauge stuck at a quarter tank has fooled plenty of people, so tap it and watch whether the float drops.
The burner reset button has been pressed once, and only once. Repeated resets flood the chamber with oil and turn a small repair into a bigger one.

If you smell gas, do not touch any switch. Leave the house, then call your gas utility from outside, and call us after the utility has made the line safe.

Same-Day Service Across Long Island and Queens

The phone is answered around the clock, weekends and holidays included, and the dispatcher gives you a real arrival window instead of a promise to call back. When the outdoor temperature is below freezing, no-heat calls go ahead of everything else on the schedule because frozen pipes cost far more than a burner repair.

Each truck carries the parts that fail most often on Long Island heating systems: nozzles, electrodes, oil filters and pump strainers, cad cell eyes, igniters, thermocouples and circulator pumps. That is why most emergency calls end with the heat running on the first visit. When a part has to be ordered, the technician gets the system running safely in the meantime wherever that is possible, and tells you plainly when it is not.

Safety comes before speed. A technician who finds a cracked heat exchanger or a carbon monoxide reading will shut the system down and explain why, even in January. Nobody wants that news, but it beats the alternative.

Emergency Heating Repair Cost on Long Island

The price is the same whether you are a longtime customer or calling for the first time. There is no service contract and no membership; you pay for the visit and the parts.

Service call: $189 plus parts, with the parts priced before they are installed.
Calls outside regular hours, weekends and holidays included, carry an additional charge. The dispatcher quotes it on the phone, before the technician is sent.
Annual tune-up: $219, with an optional extra vacuum of the chimney base and flue for $95. One tune-up a year prevents most of the emergency calls on this page.
Replacement: when a repair would cost more than the system is worth, you get both numbers side by side. Financing is available for a new system.

Heating Problems That Cannot Wait Until Morning

Some heating faults can sit until business hours with the thermostat turned down. These cannot:

No heat at all with the outdoor temperature below freezing, especially in a house with baseboard pipes on outside walls.
A carbon monoxide alarm sounding, or anyone in the house with a headache or nausea that clears up outdoors.
Smoke or soot puffing back out of the burner, or a burning smell that does not fade after the first minute of a cycle.
Water on the floor around a boiler, or a relief valve that keeps discharging.
A burner that locks out again within minutes of a single reset.
An oil tank that has run dry, because a dry line pulls sludge into the pump and filter.

For anything on that list, call (631) 867-2231 now rather than waiting to see whether it gets worse overnight.

Family-Owned Emergency Heating Service for Over 30 Years

Domino Oil Burner Service is a family business that has been answering no-heat calls on Long Island for more than 30 years. The technicians are NORA-certified, work on oil and gas equipment, and hold a 4.5-star Google rating from homeowners across Long Island. You can read some of them on our reviews page.

What that means on an emergency call is simple: the person who shows up has seen your make of burner or boiler many times before and carries its common parts. The repair is quoted before anyone touches it.

Call Now, Day or Night

Call (631) 867-2231 any time, day or night. If it can wait until the morning, book online and we will confirm your appointment, usually for the same day.