About Skaggs-Walsh
Not many home services companies can say they’ve been around since 1933 — but Skaggs-Walsh is proud to celebrate over 90 years of keeping New York City homes comfortable.
Why have our customers trusted us for so long? Well, we’ve been family-owned and operated throughout our entire history, so we know our customers, their heating systems, and exactly what they need from their service provider. As a full-service home comfort provider, we offer services such as automatic fuel delivery to oil tank replacement, comprehensive service plans to convenient budget plans, installation of high-efficiency heating equipment to regular tune-ups and efficiency tests. Skaggs-Walsh does it all.
Skaggs-Walsh History: Over 90 Years of Quality
The year was 1933. America was in the middle of the Great Depression, Bonnie and Clyde went on a gun-toting crime spree in the Midwest, Franklin D. Roosevelt became the new president, and “King Kong,” was the first film to be screened in the newly-built Radio City Music Hall.
Norris Skaggs and Stanley Walsh seized the opportunity to cultivate a clean and comfortable community for generations to come. And so their work began. Partnering with local tradespeople, they modernized their city, one oil burner at a time. They built a trusted brand, served their community, and transformed NYC from old-fashioned coal to clean, modern oil heat.
A Skaggs-Walsh Story
In the 1950s, Fred Heaney purchased Skaggs-Walsh, which he ran until 1960, when his son, Peter, took over. The company doubled in size when it acquired Sunrise Oil in 1980, at which time the headquarters were moved from Long Island City to College Point. Skaggs-Walsh remains in this location today along with a 400,000-gallon oil terminal. Several more acquisitions followed, increasing the company’s influence in Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens, Manhattan, Nassau County, Western Suffolk County, and Southern Westchester County.
As the business flourished, it remained steadfast in its commitment to NYC and its people — our neighbors, friends, and family. It continued to contribute to the community, providing customer care and concern.
In 1994, Peter’s daughter, Allison Heaney — and Skaggs-Walsh’s sales manager — became the company’s owner and president.
More than 90 years after introducing New Yorkers to the benefits of oil heat, Skaggs-Walsh is still discovering new ways to help its customers get the most value for their energy dollars.
Expanding Our Horizons
More recently, Skaggs-Walsh’s growth journey has focused on increasing the number of services it can provide its customers. The goal is to bring the same high-quality, friendly, value-driven mission to every home service that New York customers need.
To do this, we acquired local companies and continue to employ their local expert teams to offer the following services:
Our Own Storage Facility
Skaggs-Walsh owns and operates its own state-of-the-art oil storage facility, which can store up to 400,000 gallons of greener, more efficient Bioheat® fuel. Thus, we’ll have a constant supply of top-grade oil heat, no matter how long and cold the winter is. In fact, in our 90 years of business, we’ve never run out of oil and have always been able to make deliveries to our customers.
Having our own storage facility helps keep your prices down, too. That’s because when we buy in bulk we pass the savings on to you! Not every oil heat dealer has its own storage facility, but here at Skaggs-Walsh, it’s one more way we go the extra mile to serve you better.
The Full-Service Difference
The Skaggs-Walsh team is proud to be a full-service comfort company. It provides many benefits that save you energy, money, and time. It delivers fuel and other services right to your door, including automatic delivery, service plans, payment options, and much more. These are unique value-adding features that the discount fuel companies do not provide.
Skaggs-Walsh proudly serves all of the following areas:
Choose Skaggs-Walsh For Premium Home Services
Superior service involves more than merely getting the job done. Skaggs-Walsh is celebrating 90 years of serving you with top-notch heating and cooling services and reliable fuel deliveries. We have accomplished this by providing the highest quality fuel, heating equipment, and service to every single one of our customers, regardless of the local team serving them.
Contact us today for more information on our full-service heating services.
