Q. After living in this 80 year old house for 15 years and suffering through 15 hot and steamy summers, we've decided that this is the year we're going to get air conditioning. Our problem is the ...

Dear Jerry: I have lived in an English Tudor since 1975. It was built in 1928. It has the original octopus furnace with a gas conversion unit and asbestos insulation. I have selected the company to ...

Last week I began a reply to J. McC.’s questions about replacing his 1920s gravity warm air furnace (the “octopus”) with a new forced-air furnace. He was also concerned about how to find a ...

Gravity furnaces are those huge 'octopus' furnaces that can just about fill up a whole room with ductwork. They are called gravity furnaces because it's gravity that distributes warm air – the warm ...

In days gone by, autumn was a time of celebration and harvest. Food stuffs were processed, canned and stored. Fields that required back breaking labor throughout the summer would now lay fallow until ...

Q–In May, I bought a 90-year-old frame bungalow home “as is.” I was prepared to make the necessary improvements, one of which is to replace the furnace. The existing furnace was coal-burning before it ...

WINNIPEG – A furnace that started heating a Winnipeg home during the Great Depression has finally been retired. The 79-year-old beast found in a Luxton-area home – it filled the entire basement – won ...