Members of the CT Valley chapter led by Dave Sousa of J&A recently completed an Oil Heat Cares Project for a family in desperate need of a chimney relining.

The Baldinos of Naugatuck, CT have been customers of J&A for more than 15 years and recently fell on hard times. Gerald Baldino has cancer and is dealing with the difficult rigors of treatment. In addition, he had not been working. He and his wife fell behind on their bills and ran the risk of losing their house because of the cost of treatment and being on a fixed income. 

Energy Kinetics' Ascent Combi boiler seemed like the right appliance to give the Baldinos more efficient heat and hot water.

“I would like to thank Roger Marran and Mark Santangelo at Energy Kinetics and Rich Lyons and John Dunleavy at Carlin/Hydrolevel for their combined generosity in donating the boiler, some near boiler piping and the burner,” Sousa said. “Thank you as well to Roger Stolting at EDOS for donating the Resideo T4 thermostat and Lou Spada and Rich Drapeau for donating the team at Cromwell Energy to help in doing the installation.”  

Dave arranged for Kris Pereira of Advanced Chimney Solutions to donate both the materials and his labor. This was Kris' first undertaking for Oil Heat Cares; OESP would like to thank him for his efforts.