Boston Globe Handyman Peter Hotton is not writing today. This column originally ran on June 22, 2008. Q. I am getting a lot of condensation around two of the air conditioning vents coming out of my ...

Q:I am getting a lot of condensation around two of the air conditioning vents coming out of my cathedral ceiling. No other vents in the house do this. It is enough to wet the plasterboard around the ...

It could be a lot of things, but the most common source of condensation is a poorly or unvented bathroom. If your bedroom has an attached bath, that could be the culprit. Years ago, builders thought ...

The dust bunnies surrounding dirty air conditioning/heat vent covers not only call attention to no-dusting zones, they also tell the world that you haven’t been changing the filters enough. But ...

Q: My furnace is in my attic, and I recently had insulation blown in. Ever since, the air-combustion vent on my furnace is sweating and causes the ceiling to get wet. How do I stop the condensation?

Q: We live in a fairly new home with an air exchanger and have noticed that we constantly have condensation. Now we are getting areas of black mold in the basement. How do we treat this, and how do we ...

He'd slipped and fallen on the wet floor in his home caused by water dripping from the ceiling. But is it a water seepage issue? The resident, surnamed Wang, 62, claims it's due to the room ...