Cubby Oil

936 Google ratings averaging 4.9 is a lot of agreement for a heating oil company, and the reviews explain why: people keep writing about the technician, by name. Al, who traced a smoking oil furnace to the parts that needed cleaning and adjusting rather than reaching for a quick fix. Cody, on a heater tune-up for a brand-new customer. Ronald D., who checked a leaking oil tank on a scheduled burner service and cleaned up afterward. Lon, working from a project Tim the assistant service manager had set up. Cubby Oil & Energy runs out of 36 Jonspin Road in Wilmington and the company says it has been family-owned since 1945, with Charlie Uglietto as president; it lists Boston plus Arlington, Belmont, Cambridge, Malden, Melrose, Newton, Somerville, Watertown and Wilmington as its territory. Bioheat fuel delivery is the core, wrapped around furnace, boiler, water-heater and air-conditioning installation and repair, service plans, automatic deliveries and 24-hour emergency burner service. Its Massachusetts HVAC licence is active with the state registry, held by the company itself, and its BBB page is an A+. The cold-snap stories are the ones that matter. One customer ran out of oil during a cold spell, and the company fit in a delivery on a short-staffed day, then found and replaced a heating component within 48 hours. Another had no basement heat in freezing weather and got a technician within a few hours in a review posted in January 2026. Repeat customers mention getting the same technician back — one noted the tech already knew the layout of the house. Price is the open question, and it comes from Reddit rather than from the reviews. In a January 2026 r/Somerville thread about Cubby's prices, a customer on the capped price-protection program worked out that the cap looked worth it at Cubby, but said they could have saved money by going with a different provider altogether. Another Somerville commenter, back in December 2021, said flatly that Cubby was the best oil company they had dealt with; a second in the same thread said the oil companies were all pretty close on price. If you want a full-service oil company — delivery plus the burner service and the emergency call at 11pm in January — this is the shape of business people describe. Ask what your capped price actually caps, and compare it against a spot quote before you commit to a program.