Snow's Fuel Company

Snow's Fuel Company works out of 18 Main Street in Orleans and covers the Lower Cape — its own site names Orleans, Brewster, Harwich, Chatham, Dennis, Yarmouth, Eastham, Wellfleet and Truro. The company describes itself as owned and operated by members of the Snow family for six generations, family-owned for more than a century, with a sibling retail business, Snow's Home & Garden, on the same street. What it sells is broader than the name suggests. Alongside heating oil and propane delivery it installs and services heating and air-conditioning equipment, standby generators, EV chargers and residential electrical work, and does plumbing installation, repairs and seasonal-home winterization. The independent record is thin but favourable on the electrical side. A Cape Cod commenter in December 2022 pointed people to "Harmen Electric at Snows Fuel", called the work good and reasonably priced, and said jobs were being scheduled four to six weeks out from the first call. That is one person's account from several years ago, not a current service guarantee, and the wait it describes is worth confirming before you plan around a date. Two things are worth raising when you call. The Better Business Bureau rates the company B-, and states that grade rests entirely on a failure to respond to one complaint on file — the company is not BBB accredited. The same profile also tells a different story about age and ownership than the company does: it records the business as started in 2009 with a file opened in 2018, and lists a president who is not a member of the Snow family. For a Lower Cape homeowner who wants fuel delivery and the heating, electrical or plumbing service that goes with it under one roof, this is a plausible call. Ask for the scheduling window on your specific job, and ask the company directly about the unanswered BBB complaint and about which entity holds the licences for the electrical and plumbing work.