A heat exchanger in simple terms is a heating component inside of a furnace that transfers heat to the surrounding air, which is commonly distributed throughout the home through a furnaces ducting ...

Homeowners looking to replace their furnace can expect to pay approximately $4,800 on average, according to recent industry ...

Q: Our house does not heat evenly. It is a 160-year-old Greek Revival structure. It has two stories in the center and a one story wing on each side. There is a basement under the center two-story ...

Your furnace needs ductwork to transfer heat into your home. If you live in a newer home, your home's ductwork is likely already well taken care of. However, ...

We had our ducts commercially cleaned five years ago, when we were having a new furnace ... No routine brushing job by a duct cleaning outfit would be able to penetrate an intact metal heating duct.

These furnaces are safer as well as more comfortable because they don't pull cold air into the living space. Older furnace designs need the "tube" you describe, an insulated flexible duct called ...

QUESTION — We read you columns in the Free Press every week, many thanks for the articles. We have one problem that has not been addressed. Our three-bedroom-and-bathroom house, built in 1962, i ...

Although transite ductwork was obviously popular in the 1960s and 1970s, most of the sub-slab ductwork used today is not the same. It contains PVC materials instead of the cement-asbestos mix. However ...

Although improving the efficiency of your heating/cooling system can be as simple as changing the filter in your forced-air heater, it may well be more expensive and complicated than that. Heating ...

And it could actually work against what you're hoping to accomplish. When the furnace fan comes on to push cold air through the duct, the hole you describe would pull more air from the basement ...