Q: We are looking to buy an older house that has a very unusual furnace. The home inspector calls it a gravity furnace, but I think it looks more like an octopus with these large pipes that protrude ...

Q. After living in this 80 year old house for 15 years and suffering through 15 hot and steamy summers, we've decided that this is the year we're going to get air conditioning. Our problem is the ...

Dear Jerry: I have lived in an English Tudor since 1975. It was built in 1928. It has the original octopus furnace with a gas conversion unit and asbestos insulation. I have selected the company 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 ...