Q: My wife and I recently bought a small ranch that had an old, inefficient furnace in the crawl space. During the fall, we disconnected the old furnace and decided to install a new one in our attic ...

Q: More than 40 years ago, I read an article about a man who heated his small home by centralizing the source of heat into the crawl space. Each room had a floor register placed under a window, and ...

Dear Ken: I've moved into a townhouse with a crawl space. Why would the builder put the furnace and water heater in there? It seems very inconvenient. - J.S. Dear J.S.: It's either an economic or a ...

Q. This week: My five year old second home has a five foot tall crawl space with a concrete floor (copper and PVC pipes and ductwork are down there, and a suspended 80,000 BTU transverse furnace).

Q: I have a crawlspace under our home where the north and east walls are insulated on the inside with 3/4-inch blue foam board. Do I need to have a fire-resistant or -retardant covering over it by ...

Q: I’m confused about maintenance of my crawlspace, which also serves as a cold-air return plenum for an oil furnace. No cold-air return ducts, just crawlspace. The crawlspace looks quite dirty, and ...

Asha Gowda returned to her Westlake home Wednesday to find her crawlspace under two feet of water and her 74-year-old mother chilly. The furnace had shut down. "It was very cold in here," she said.

Changing your furnace filter is one of those home maintenance chores that's easy to forget until you've got a problem. Typically located in tucked-away spots like a basement, crawlspace, or attic, ...