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A furnace room is a room for locating the furnace
Furnace

File:Piec krepa.JPGA furnace is a device used for heating. The name derives from Latin fornax, oven. The earliest furnace was excavated at Balakot, a site of the Indus Valley Civilization, dating back to its mature phase ....
 and auxiliary equipment. Such a room minimizes the visual impact of the furnace, pipes and other gear. A modern compact furnace can readily fit into a small closet
Closet

A closet is a small and enclosed space, a Cabinet , or a cupboard in a house or building used for general storage or hanging clothes. A closet for food storage is usually referred to as a pantry....
. However care must be exercised to provide adequate ventilation
Ventilation (architecture)

Ventilation is the intentional movement of air from outside a building to the inside. It is the V in HVAC. With clothes dryers, and combustion equipment such as water heaters, boilers, fireplaces, and wood stoves, their exhausts are often called vents or flues — this should not be confused with ventilation....
 as the exterior of the furnace unit puts out a significant amount of heat
Heat

In physics and thermodynamics, heat is any transfer of energy from one body or thermodynamic system to another due to a difference in temperature....
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A furnace room is a room for locating the furnace
Furnace

File:Piec krepa.JPGA furnace is a device used for heating. The name derives from Latin fornax, oven. The earliest furnace was excavated at Balakot, a site of the Indus Valley Civilization, dating back to its mature phase ....
 and auxiliary equipment. Such a room minimizes the visual impact of the furnace, pipes and other gear. A modern compact furnace can readily fit into a small closet
Closet

A closet is a small and enclosed space, a Cabinet , or a cupboard in a house or building used for general storage or hanging clothes. A closet for food storage is usually referred to as a pantry....
. However care must be exercised to provide adequate ventilation
Ventilation (architecture)

Ventilation is the intentional movement of air from outside a building to the inside. It is the V in HVAC. With clothes dryers, and combustion equipment such as water heaters, boilers, fireplaces, and wood stoves, their exhausts are often called vents or flues — this should not be confused with ventilation....
 as the exterior of the furnace unit puts out a significant amount of heat
Heat

In physics and thermodynamics, heat is any transfer of energy from one body or thermodynamic system to another due to a difference in temperature....
. An unheated attached garage
Garage (house)

A residential garage is part of a home, or an associated building, designed or used for storing a vehicle or vehicles. In some places the term is used synonymously with "carport", though that term normally describes a structure that is not completely enclosed....
 can make for an ideal furnace room as the exterior heat from the furnace will warm and dry the garage. However, care must be taken to prevent air leakage from the garage into the house via pathways either through or around the furnace and ductwork. Such air leakage could act to transport potentially dangerous contaminants from the garage into the main body of the house. In the picture the airflow is from bottom to top with an electronic air filter on the bottom, followed by a natural gas
Natural gas

Natural gas is a gas consisting primarily of methane. It is found associated with fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, and landfills....
 high efficiency or condensing furnace (98% efficient) in the middle and the air conditioning
Air conditioning

An air conditioner is an appliance, system, or Mechanism designed to extract heat from an area via a refrigeration cycle. In construction, a complete system of heating, Ventilation , and air conditioning is referred to as "HVAC." Its purpose, in a building or an automobile, is to provide comfort during either hot or cold...
 coils on top.

See also

  • Mechanical room
    Mechanical room

    A mechanical room or a boiler room is a room or space in a building dedicated to the mechanical equipment and its associated electrical equipment....
  • Utility room
    Utility room

    A utility room is a room in a house, which is the descendant of the scullery . The utility room typically contains washing machine, tumble dryer, and other appliances which, in houses without such a room, would be in the kitchen or laundry room....