Bigelow Oil & Energy

Bigelow Oil & Energy has been delivering heating oil out of the same Newton yard since 1945, when Nick and Kay Nicolazzo bought their first truck; the company says it's still family owned three generations later, with Nick III now among those running it. Today it pairs oil delivery with HVAC work — boiler and furnace repair, plus heating and cooling — across Newton, Waltham, Brookline, Wellesley, and the rest of its stated MetroWest/Greater Boston service area. On Google, the storefront shows a 4.6-star average from 79 ratings, and the one written review available from the past six months lines up with that: a customer this February called a boiler repair and oil delivery visit responsive and said they'd recommend the company. Weighed against the tone of the fuller set of written reviews over time, though, the picture reads more mixed than that headline star average alone suggests. Independent detail beyond Google is thin — write-ups on directory sites like BestProsInTown, EcoHome, and FuelWonk mostly repeat Bigelow's own copy about its 1945 founding and family ownership rather than adding fresh reporting, and only that single review has posted in the last six months, so there isn't much to go on for how the company is performing right now. For an established oil-delivery and furnace/boiler outfit inside its stated towns, the long run and steady Google number are worth something; just ask about current response times and get a recent reference before signing up for a service plan, since the freshest written detail is sparse.