Backdrafts in your home can potentially expose you to carbon monoxide poisoning. Here's how to protect yourself.

Bob is a service technician who is well trained and nationally certified. However, he has sometimes suffered from the same confusion that all technicians occasionally do — the facts that he gathers ...

Most noncondensing residential furnaces use natural draft to drive the combustion process. Even 80%-AFUE furnaces with combustion blowers are natural-draft furnaces. The combustion blower in an 80% ...

Q: We have a high-efficiency condensing furnace that vents out a side wall. Should I be concerned about the icicles I see built up on the plastic pipe outside the house? -M.C. Kalamazoo. A: No. What ...

QDEAR BARRY: We're buying a 12-year-old house and there is a difference of opinion between our home inspector and a heating contractor. Our inspector checked the forced-air furnace for carbon monoxide ...

Q. We had a chimney cleaning service inspect our chimney and they suggested that we install an insulated flexible aluminum flue liner in our chimney connected directly to our gas water heater vent.

Since this is the start of the heating season, here are my eight top safety tips and suggestions for performing your own furnace and fireplace inspections. 1. If the fossil-fueled furnace is more than ...

I'm going to guess that you have a newer furnace. If that's true, you're probably getting condensation in the flue. Older furnaces didn't have that issue. The hot flue gas they produced literally shot ...

Amid Sunday night’s blast of chilly weather, James F. Smith decided to warm his Essex home by turning on the furnace for the first time this season before settling in for the night. But he didn’t ...