Is this thing on? It's never a bad idea to call your gas utility for help when lighting the pilot on your gas wall heater. (Karen Garcia / Los Angeles Times) The recent drenching rains and the future ...

Q. I would appreciate your opinion about ventless propane wall heaters. We have two of these heaters in our cottage and use them on a seasonal basis - short term in the spring and fall months. The ...

Q. I rent. And last winter the landlord replaced the gas space heater with a wall unvented gas unit, and no fan. What is it doing to my lungs? The combustion byproducts are too great to handle. I have ...

Replacing the old furnace in your central heating system with a new, more efficient model can offset volatile energy prices. Money aside, today’s furnaces pollute less and boost comfort by producing ...

Your furnace's job is keeping you warm. Get to know the parts of a furnace so it will do that job better and last a lot ...

After Alice Parker received the first central air heating system patent in 1919, it didn’t take long for other home heating innovations to appear. The first coal-fired wall furnace, designed to ...

Bob is a service technician who is well trained and nationally certified. However, he sometimes suffers from the same confusion that all technicians occasionally do - the facts that he gathers may or ...

The recent drenching rains and the future storms predicted to hit Southern California are enough reason to stay home where it’s dry and warm. For many renters, though, keeping the house warm means ...