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Venting a gas hot water heater searay45 01-15-2007
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Posted by Bubba on January 18, 2007, 7:42 pm
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:51:23 GMT, "Bob_Loblaw"

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>> Bob,
>> You and I are obviously on two different pages. I DONT downsize them.
>> They ARE 3" drafthoods and the links I provided show this. Read them.
>> I have a 50 gal Rheem/Ruud 40,000 btu gas heater. Nothing special. No
>> venter, no high recovery or anything strange. It comes with a 3 inch
>> draft hood and it is NOT downsized.
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>It must be a regional thing.
>I checked the links and saw some 50's with 3" venting.
>All the 50's and 40's here are 4" unless they're a low input.
>That's why I couldn't understand you pushing for the 3".
>I stand corrected.

Thats what I was wondering. I didnt realize they made the same water
heater with a 3 and/or 4 inch connection.
I too could stand a little correcting.
Bubba

Posted by on January 17, 2007, 10:57 pm
"Bob_Loblaw" wrote:


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>...there a thousands of 50 gallon wh's vented with 4"....
>Unless it's a 40 gallon low input heater, all 40's and 50's that I've seen
>in the last 20 years are 4" venting....conventional type of course..


just curious here Bob, do you ever seen super old venting done with
transite? That's the norm around these parts. most all resi- gas
venting 20 yrs or older is 4-5" transite.

Posted by danger@heat.com on January 17, 2007, 11:58 pm
bubba, even if he water heater had a 3" draft hood, he could still adapt it to
4" bvent. His question was if he could vent the single appliance up an
interior 4" bvent. Simple.

You still havn't amswered by telling us how you would vent his appliance?
Would you replace all the bvent with 3", run a 3" liner down the bvent? What
would bubba do? Maybe get the customer to replace the thermostat HAHA

bubba I would run circles around you in the service dept! ;)


-Canadian Heat



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Posted by Noon-Air on January 18, 2007, 7:52 am

> bubba, even if he water heater had a 3" draft hood, he could still adapt
> it to
> 4" bvent. His question was if he could vent the single appliance up an
> interior 4" bvent. Simple.
>
> You still havn't amswered by telling us how you would vent his appliance?
> Would you replace all the bvent with 3", run a 3" liner down the bvent?
> What
> would bubba do? Maybe get the customer to replace the thermostat HAHA

Can't tell a thing without actually *SEEING* the application, and
installation.
Under most *normal* circumstances, for what has been described here I would
be looking at 3in B-Vent, unless the manufacturers instructions specified
otherwise. If the vent pipe is too big, you will have condensation problems.

> bubba I would run circles around you in the service dept! ;)

I don't believe I would want to go there.



Posted by on January 18, 2007, 10:19 am
"Noon-Air" wrote:

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>"DANgER" wrote
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>> bubba I would run circles around you in the service dept! ;)
>
>I don't believe I would want to go there.
>

my money's on Bubba.

of course he's hosting alt hvac's 3rd annual fishing party, so i
suppose that has some bearing... :-)

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