Whether you have a gas furnace, a heat pump or something else, regular upkeep can save you money and keep your home's air cleaner. Andrew King is an award-winning journalist and copywriter from ...

Discover the key differences between heat pumps and furnaces, including energy efficiency, cost, and climate suitability. Learn which heating system is best for your home and lifestyle.

I'm renting an apartment heated by natural gas, via steam radiators. The landlords are idiots (see below), so it's up to me to make sure the thing is maintained, and then I just submit the bill to ...

A draft hood used to effectively ventilate the area around older “gravity vent” furnaces. Because current furnaces lack this feature, the condition described below results in some unburned gas ...

Derived from the Latin word fornax, meaning oven, a furnace is a large heating appliance designed to evenly distribute heat throughout a building. Furnaces accomplish this by burning fuel internally ...

Natural-gas suppliers have been warning about higher than normal prices this winter, and ``normal'' is already a lot more than a few years ago. Which means it's definitely high time to start thinking ...

With so many heating systems on the market, it can be hard to know what's best for your home. This is a classic option that ...

Keeping your furnace clean is important in order to have it run properly in winter (or year-round if you have whole-house air conditioning). A clean furnace will burn less fuel -- thus saving you ...

Gayle Zook of Blaine had a 19-year-old furnace until Monday, when it was replaced after being red-tagged on Friday. Red-tagging, the practice of a heating and air conditioner technician shutting off a ...