quatrixPremium
join:2005-02-11
South FL
kudos:2 | reply to bobrk
Re: New Water Heater! Wait... a basement in California? I never saw one in 25 years there. |
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| 1. there's no need to have it off the floor, unless your local code says so, or it's in a designated environment (ie. garage commercial or residential)
2. The paint cans, or any chemical really shouldn't be in the same room as the heater...however the majority of new tanks (rheem included) have a flammable vapor sensor that would protect from an explosion/fire.
3. We cant see the start of the gas line, so there could be a drip leg behind the tank. |
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 jack bGone FishingPremium,MVM
join:2000-09-08
Cape Cod
kudos:1 | IMO, drip legs should have been discontinued as a gas piping requirement long ago when manufactured gas was phased out. Natural gas typically contains no moisture so condensate accumulation is not something we really need to be concerned with anymore.
In all my years in the gas business I've never found anything other than maybe a tiny bit of excess thread-cutting oil in the cap of a drip. If the plumber who put it all together knew what he was doing, there would be no oil inside the pipe in the first place.
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 bobrkYou kids get offa my lawnPremium
join:2000-02-02
San Jose, CA
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said by quatrix:Wait... a basement in California? I never saw one in 25 years there.
You just didn't get to the right neighborhoods. I've always been attracted to older homes, like those made in the early 1910's and '20's. Most of those have basements... |
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 John GaltForward, MarchPremium
join:2004-09-30
Happy Camp
kudos:5 | said by bobrk:said by quatrix:Wait... a basement in California? I never saw one in 25 years there.
You just didn't get to the right neighborhoods. I've always been attracted to older homes, like those made in the early 1910's and '20's. Most of those have basements... There are MANY basements in the older section of San Jose...
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 Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | reply to sempergoofy
said by sempergoofy:I did not know residential water heaters could be acquired in colors other than white.
Same here I've only seen white and off-white. |
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iknowPremium
join:2012-03-25 | reply to jack b
said by jack b:By the way, it's perfectly okay to pipe the relief valve away from the tank like this, other than straight down to the floor, provided:
as taken right from a typical State residential heater installation manual:
quote:
—Must be installed so as to allow complete drainage of both
the temperature-pressure relief valve, and the discharge
pipe.
this part here is violated, in this case, it can't do this by itself!. and no one really thinks they expect you to manually drain the pipes when they fill right?. this is to prevent the T&P or drain pipe from freezing, if that happens, the pressure can't be relieved because of the ice in the pipe or valve. |
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jack bGone FishingPremium,MVM
join:2000-09-08
Cape Cod
kudos:1 | I really don't think his T&P discharge pipe is gonna freeze inside his cellar, but maybe that's just me... |
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iknowPremium
join:2012-03-25 | said by jack b:I really don't think his T&P discharge pipe is gonna freeze inside his cellar, but maybe that's just me...
maybe not, but the manufacturer wants it to be self draining, so it can't freeze. |
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