horizontal venting

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Permalink Reply by Kari Sauder on January 21, 2013 at 7:14pm

Found this in the basement of our recent purchase.  Only thing worse than one long horizontal vent is two.  Our HVAC guy looked at the big blob of white cement at the chimney breech and said, "That's scary".  Fortunately the price was right and we will be putting a 95% AFUE sidewall vented unit in for a replacement. (And a power vented WH).

Permalink Reply by John Nicholas on January 21, 2013 at 8:35pm

You didn't even need a level to show the negative slope on those.  Wow!  Scary Indeed! The only thing worse would be disconnected before the chimney - and these might have been!

Permalink Reply by David Meiland on January 21, 2013 at 8:40pm

Look on the bright side... you could have gotten this: http://inspectorsjournal.com/forum/pop_img_preview.asp?usersImgPath...

Permalink Reply by Kari Sauder on January 26, 2013 at 6:00am

yep --people get creative with their venting options-- thanks for sharing.

Permalink Reply by Eric Kjelshus on January 24, 2013 at 8:27pm

you made a good purchase.   With a stone/brick chimney takes a 50-60,000 BTU/hr to keep the draft up.  Look at the top of furnace full of rust and drips its not drafting 

Permalink Reply by Kari Sauder on January 26, 2013 at 5:58am

I don't think there was much of a draft.  The tops of both furnace and WH were pretty rusty.  But then the furnace had not been used in a while probably b/c there were two kerosene cans in the yard -- can anyone say orphaned water heater?  But then there were so many bypasses (no sheeting on the house above the porch ceilings & balloon framing basement to attic) that the plumbing inside the house was not safe from freezing so the CO probably didn't have too much chance to stay!  This week temps dipped below zero here and we were forced to take some hours in the basement for air-sealing -- band joist on a stone foundation = $80 of spray foam.  Already brought the temp of the basement up 20 deg. (heating with elec. space heaters last month was expensive-- can't hardly wait for the HVAC guy to get here with the gas furnace)

Permalink Reply by Bob Daley on January 30, 2013 at 10:32am

YIKES! I'm glad you got that fixed up.