Q: In your piece “Here are cold, hard facts about your thermostats” (2/11/05), you described how a gas/oil furnace thermostat works. The Northwest probably has more electric heat than anywhere in the ...

For those who get heart palpitations each time they open electric and gas bills, saving money on energy usage might be an important goal. If you don’t want to save money by lowering your heating or ...

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 ...

Newly-manufactured indoor residential gas furnaces will have to be at least 95% efficient starting in late 2028 under a new rule issued by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In an effort to save ...

MAPLE GROVE, Minn — Furnace technicians say the colder it gets, the harder our furnaces have to work to keep our homes warm. This is the time when a lot of the smaller issues in your furnace can turn ...