In my experience, properly sealing and insulating a basement can improve heating efficiency by around 20%," Mitchell explains ...

In addition to any damage that may be done, a furnace or water heater can be a bear to get out of a basement. Rather than a flood, it's more likely that sometime in the future you'll be plagued ...

And, in both heating and cooling season, the finished basement is frigid. In order to improve the heating system’s performance, I added a duct and register down there a few years ago.

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In her basement, workers were installing a new hot water heater. She may have to wait another day or so for them to put in a new furnace. "It's been hectic, because both my kids are asthmatic ...

KITCHENER -An expensive repair bill may be hiding in the ceiling of your basement. If you have black-plastic pipes venting your natural-gas fired hot-water heater or furnace, the pipes may have to ...

Meanwhile, about 100 residents still don't have functioning furnaces and are living ... "And so we've got to get the heat back on, we've got to get the basement sanitized, and we've got to ...