With the polar vortex and arctic blast hitting most of the country this week, people are looking for ways to warm up and keep the chill out. If you don’t have a furnace to heat your home, it’s more ...

If your home's HVAC system uses a heat pump, it's likely that there is an emergency heat or EM heat setting on your thermostat. As its name implies, this functionality works as a backup heat source ...

(NEXSTAR) – With frigid temperatures, ice and snow in the forecast for much of the U.S. this week, heaters practically everywhere are going to be working overtime. If you’re not feeling the warmth, ...

Your backup heat is supposed to be the quiet safety net in your home’s comfort system, not the star of the show. Yet in many ...

Heat pumps work more efficiently than furnaces, but they don’t actually produce heat. Instead, they transfer heat from outdoors to indoors via a refrigeration system similar to that in an air ...

It's cold this week in Tennessee and with a winter storm preparing to hit the state and much of the South it is important to keep warm. A winter storm at the beginning of the week ushered in frigid ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NEXSTAR) – With frigid temperatures, ice ...