Nick has seven years of experience in the home improvement industry. He started his career marketing for dozens of flooring providers and related home services across North America. Today, he is a ...

The first modern oil furnace with a high-voltage system for self lighting was unveiled in 1918. By the mid-1920s, demand for oil furnaces was high and rising. Being a liquid, oil flows and can be ...

Bob is a service technician who is well trained and nationally certified. However, he has sometimes suffered from the same confusion that all technicians occasionally do — the facts that he gathers ...

The author’s air-source heat pump resembles an air conditioning unit, and it pictured here alongside one of the heating oil fuel tanks. Photos by Adam D. Bearup The following story covers our recent ...

When facing a residential oil-fired furnace that is acting up, you want to get the situation under control as quickly as possible. A problem during the heating season will bring a call from an anxious ...

Follow the steps one homeowner took in his Northeast home to switch from heating oil to a heat pump for all-electric home heat. Homeowner Peter Callaway’s shared his experience switching from fuel oil ...

People working in the oil furnace repair industry say something is causing potentially costly problems for Nova Scotians who heat with furnace oil. Shannon Gotell, who works for A.S.A.P. Burner ...

The federal government says it has a plan to start phasing out the use of oil-fired furnaces in new construction and get homeowners and businesses to switch to heat pumps over the next several years.