Turning on your furnace, you expect warm air, yet sometimes you get just the opposite. When your furnace is blowing cold air, it tells you something is not working properly in the system. The problem ...

A failed furnace can leave you stuck without heat in the dead of winter. Find out when your furnace is most likely to fail ...

Keeping your furnace clean is important in order to have it run properly in winter (or year-round if you have whole-house air conditioning). A clean furnace will burn less fuel -- thus saving you ...

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 ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa - March 16, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Northwest Plumbing, Heating & AC, a century-old Quad Cities ...

Erin Gobler is a personal finance writer based in Madison, Wisconsin. She writes about topics including budgeting, student loans, credit, mortgages, investing and insurance. Her work has been ...

Nick is a writer with nearly a decade of experience in the home improvement industry. Now one of Forbes Home’s in-house writers, he previously wrote for Forbes Home as a freelance writer. He has ...

It’s frustrating when a customer complains that their older, inefficient furnace did a better job heating their home than their new, high-efficiency furnace. Some common issues they mention are that ...

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 ...

Lexie is a former Staff Writer at Forbes Home and has over 6 years of professional experience as a writer and editor in the home improvement space. She's previously worked at sites such as HomeAdvisor ...

A recent blog post about fall maintenance mentioned having your furnace inspected/tuned up by a qualified heating contractor annually. One reader sent an email asking if this was really necessary – ...