Each week, I receive quite a few emails from readers of this column. I treasure each one because they provide a window to view the real problems and challenges you face with your homes. Some messages ...

Winter is prime time for flue and chimney fires in Northwest Arkansas as people fire up their wood stoves and fireplaces for the colder weather, but firefighters say people should take precautions ...

Best time of year to clean a chimney pipe Best tools for brushing down a chimney or wood stove pipe and clean up Yearly maintenance tips, including how to replace fireproof gaskets in and around your ...

Like many buildings of its era, the 47-year-old CHA Flannery Senior Apartments were due for a mechanical retrofit in 2009 when Primera-Hill landed the big Chicago Housing Authority contract. Just one ...

Installing a freestanding wood stove requires installing chimney pipe to vent the wood stove. This step by step guide will explain the typical chimney pipe and stove ...

“That’s too much — no one else even mentioned we’d need an expensive liner — you trying to rip us off here?” Chimneys — you can’t live with them and you can’t live without them — or at least you ...

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% ...

My house is heated with a gas-fired furnace. How can I seal the house's ducts to prevent carbon monoxide (CO) leakage? First, let's clarify this. Ducts carry heated or cooled air. Under normal ...