Keeping down the costs of heating your house, while avoiding sitting and shivering over your supper, has become a bit of a balancing act for some people over the last few winters. So I'm always keen ...

Q I am thinking of putting a multi-fuel stove into the existing fireplace of a Victorian cottage. While it is preferable to put in a flue liner, do Building Regs require the flue to be lined in these ...

I have a one pipe steam heat system in a 2 story house. The upstairs is consistently about 6 degrees colder. Currently, I have Maid-o-Mist #4 air valves on the first floor and Maid-O-Mist #5 valves on ...

THEY may not be the newest smartphone, or next big thing in high-speed broadband, but radiators have been getting a distinctly modern makeover. Remember those dirty-grey plastic boxes with grills at ...

Does your Chicago heating system rely heavily on old steam radiators? You're not the only one -- across the US, this type of heating is common, with some systems boasting radiators that are decades ...