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 ...

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% ...

With proper care, a flue pipe made of good single-wall steel should last many years. I use a German Weso “tile oven” woodstove for night and sunless-day heating in my passive solar home. The design of ...

SAN ANTONIO – Experts are asking people with new roofs to check their vents. Improper venting can lead to potentially deadly carbon-monoxide buildup and exposure. "If there's anything that allows ...

[Editor’s Note: This is part two of the two-part series on combustion analysis.] Safety of the appliance should be the primary goal of all technicians. The production of carbon monoxide (CO) in the ...

What Is Flue Gas Analysis? The term "flue" refers to the long pipes that are used to discharge exhaust gases, and are commonly found as chimneys, ducts, or simple pipes. The gases ejected by flues ...

Q: I think my flue pipe might be loose, is this be something I should be concerned about? A: When was the last time you visually inspected the metal flue pipes or vents from your furnace and hot water ...

A heating specialist in Wagoner is noticing an alarming trend; he's finding some people's exhaust pipes from their furnaces and water heaters have come loose, leaking dangerous Carbon monoxide into ...