There is a common misconception that it’s impossible to have a furnace — a major component to an HVAC system — installed in the attic due to tight space and minimal access. This is not the case. As ...

Faulty Consolidated attic furnaces, cited by firefighters as the cause of several home fires this month, continue to bedevil hundreds of Southern California homeowners. Residents from Lancaster to ...

Q. I have a question about ice dams, which are affecting us and our neighbors in our recently constructed adjoined condominiums. We all have 2-zone HVAC with the second zone furnace in the attic crawl ...

Q: I have two furnaces, one in the basement and the other in the attic. Is the one in the attic bad for ice dams? Why was it put there? A: Hot air furnaces in the attic generally cannot be insulated ...

Defective attic furnaces blamed for scores of home fires around California in the last decade were recalled Monday, meaning that tens of thousands of the potentially hazardous units can be repaired or ...

Tens of thousands of defective attic furnaces that caused scores of residential fires in California in the past decade will finally be subject to mass replacement or repair under a recall announced by ...

Q. I have two furnaces, one in the basement and the other in the attic. Is the one in the attic bad for ice dams? Why was it put there? A. Hot air furnaces in the attic generally cannot be insulated ...

Q: Last year we replaced our rock roof with asphalt shingles, and the strangest thing has been happening ever since. Whenever the weather is hot, the forced air furnace in our attic turns on. The only ...

Question: My husband and I just recently purchased a tract home in the North Patterson Avenue area in Goleta, and the house doesn’t have many cabinets or closets for storage. The houses in our ...

Q: Six years ago, we purchased a two-story, gas-heated, centrally air-conditioned home built in 1970. The home had two separate furnaces (one in an unfinished basement and the other in the attic) and ...

Q: I have a question about ice dams (as do many of late, I'm sure), which are affecting us and our neighbors in our recently constructed adjoined condominiums. We all have 2-zone HVAC with the second ...

Q. I have a question about ice dams (as do many of late, I’m sure), which are affecting us and our neighbors in our recently constructed adjoined condominiums. We all have 2-zone HVAC with the second ...