Couple pictures of a Vitodens combi installed on Thursday. All rough in installed in the wall. With a cosmetic piping cover in place to conceal piping connections. This is the first time I have used the cosmetic piping cover, with the boiler in an exposed location like the laundry room I think it is a nice option. Boiler is supplying the radiant floor heat as well as the domestic hot water for a guest house.
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That' some nice clean work.
KC, how about we turn those pics the right way up :)
Never be afraid to try something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark, Professionals build the Titanic.
Just following the latest issue of FHB that says we should be exercising and stretching I didn't want you to forget those neck stretches.
Take it in lazy viewing mode. Lay down. Remembering to get back up is optional.
KC,
Does Vitodens have any warranty disclaimers if a laundry or drier vent is located near combustion air souce? The chlorine from a drier rotted out the stainless heat exchanger in a buddy of mine's new furnace in under 2 years a while back.
Clampman
Clampman
Up here in Canada our gas code (B-149.1) Does not allow the vent to terminate within 6 ft. of a (mechanical air supply inlet) a dryer vent is considered to be a mechanical air inlet by the code. I am not sure what the code in the U.S. dictates but would assume it would be close to ours. So around here that would not be a problem.CHLORINE? That drier would have to be exausting a lot of it to be a problem. Was it the furnace installer that came up with that one?
KC,
I read the warranties on a number of high efficiency gas furnaces when I switched from oil to gas in my house, and most stated that the warranty on the stainless heat exchangers was void if the combusion air intake was on the same side of the house as the dryer vent. Some even mentioned the proximity of laundromats or commercial cleaners would void the warranty. The exchanger that rotted out in two years had the installers shocked and flabergasted, and they replaced it free of charge. In that case, the furnace used basement combustion air, and the laundry and drier were in the basement - the dryer was not vented to outside either.
Evidently, chlorine combines with something in the combustion process of natural gas to form a stainless gobbling compound. I learned about the problem through "Consumer Report" or "Consumer Research" before purchasing a furnace. The German metalurgists have probably since changed the receipt for their stainless.
The problem (if it even still exists) was not with the codes, but with the furnaces.
Clampman