Reply #15: In addition to what everybody else has said about oil... [View All]

[Chan790]

Go around the house and find the thermostat(s). Close off as many rooms and areas (you can use towels to seal-off door-gaps) that you don't need to keep warm except the one with the thermostat in it and any room with plumbing. Bake something now or before you go to bed. Using the oven at 350'F for an hour will raise the ambient temperature of the living space (I'm assuming after closing off spare bedrooms, closets and the such we're talking under 1000SF) by about 10'F. When you get up in the AM, bake something else...or just turn the oven on but don't leave it unattended.

That should get you through until you can get more oil tomorrow sometime. It won't be toasty but it should keep you around 55'F at-least which is bearable.