Gas appliances are divided into four venting categories based on vent operating pressure and whether they are condensing or non-condensing. Category I is negative pressure, non-condensing. Category II ...

Chances of carbon monoxide poisoning rise during the winter months when a home is sealed tight. Checking and correcting a natural gas water heater vent is a simple step toward preventing the back ...

Q: We bought a new town house in 2007. It has a stacked washer/dryer set located in a utility closet that backs onto the interior shared wall of the third floor. The dryer is an electric model, which ...

Q: We have a high-efficiency condensing furnace that vents out a side wall. Should I be concerned about the icicles I see built up on the plastic pipe outside the house? -M.C. Kalamazoo. A: No. What ...

Q: I need your advice. My clothes dryer stopped getting my clothes dry. The problem was traced to the vent line being squished behind the dryer. I was also told the flexible plastic pipe was inferior.

Did your dryer feel like a freezer every time you opened it this past winter? Did the vent pipe develop frost on the outside surface between uses? If your dryer vent is like most in Canada, it’s ...