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Services We Offer in Georgetown
Repairs & No-Heat Calls
No heat, short cycling, or a system that will not fire.
Maintenance & Tune-Ups
Keeping it running before the cold arrives.
Installation & Replacement
New furnaces, boilers and heat pumps.
Systems & Controls
Heat pumps, conversions and smart controls.
What winter actually asks of a system in Georgetown
Georgetown drops below freezing on about 147 nights a year, and below 10°F on about 22 of them. Those coldest nights — not the average winter day — are what a furnace, boiler or heat pump has to be sized for. A system that keeps up in November and struggles in January is usually a sizing problem, not a broken one.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, recorded at the Groveland station — the nearest reporting station, about 4 miles away.
Local systems
Georgetown systems & permits
Heating is the whole ballgame in Georgetown — the nearest NOAA normals station records 6,323 heating degree-days against only 621 cooling degree-days. Roughly half the town's occupied homes, 1,613 of 3,188, heat with utility gas, but 957 households, almost exactly 30%, still burn fuel oil or kerosene, and another 285 run on bottled or LP gas. That oil fleet sits directly over the town's drinking water: Georgetown's own source-water assessment lists residential fuel oil storage among the threats inside the Zone II recharge area that feeds all three municipal wells. Gas and plumbing inspections are done by the town on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1pm to 3pm.
Sources: www2.census.gov · georgetownma.gov · data.census.gov
Of 3,188 occupied housing units, 1,613 (50.6%) heat with utility gas, 957 (30.0%) with fuel oil or kerosene, 285 (8.9%) with bottled, tank or LP gas, 234 (7.3%) with electricity and 57 (1.8%) with wood (ACS 2019-2023, table B25040, GEO_ID 0600000US2500925625).
Georgetown's source water assessment rates the town's overall susceptibility to contamination as high, and lists "residential fuel oil storage" alongside septic systems and cesspools among the potential threats within Zone II, the primary recharge area for the aquifer that supplies the entire municipal system.
58.7% of Georgetown's housing units were built before 1980 and 30.2% before 1960, with the largest single wave — 41.4% of all units — built between 1950 and 1979; the town's 2026 planning document attributes its current demographics partly to "aging in place of residents who moved to Georgetown during the population boom in 1960s and 1970s."
Utility gas heats 50.6% of occupied homes in Georgetown (1,613 of 3,188 households, ACS 2019-2023 5-year).
Why Georgetown Chooses Spencer
Straightforward heating work from a local team — clear pricing, licensed technicians, and appointments that actually happen when we say they will.
Licensed & Insured in Massachusetts
Every heating technician we send to Georgetown is fully licensed, insured and background-checked.
Upfront, Flat-Rate Pricing
You approve the price before any work begins. No hidden fees, no surprise charges, no overtime rates.
Same-Day Service
Same-day appointments across Georgetown and the surrounding North Shore communities.
Family-Owned and Local
A local family business, not a national call centre. The person who answers is the person who dispatches.
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Heating service in Georgetown, and 66 nearby towns
We cover 67 towns across the North Shore, Greater Boston and southern New Hampshire.
67Towns covered
Essex County
- Amesbury
- Andover
- Ballardvale
- Beverly
- Boxford
- Danvers
- Essex
- Georgetown
- Gloucester
- Groveland
- Hamilton
- Haverhill
- Ipswich
- Lynn
- Lynnfield
- Manchester by the Sea
- Marblehead
- Merrimac
- Middleton
- Nahant
- Newbury
- Newburyport
- North Andover
- Peabody
- Plum Island
- Rockport
- Rowley
- Salem
- Salisbury
- Saugus
- South Hamilton
- Swampscott
- Topsfield
- Wenham
- West Newbury
Middlesex County
Rockingham County, NH
Norfolk County
- Brookline
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