I had two furnaces installed in my house a couple years ago. The vent they use has a single pipe through the wall, but it is divided so that fresh air comes in and exhaust air goes out. There is a special cap on the ned so it is not an open pipe end. Blessings, Tom
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Lee A. Stone Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 3:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] the furnace is on order David, keep us posted on the results and the installation of that new furnace. Might I suggest that if that furnace exhaust is out the side of the house as you asked for that the man or woman put a 90 degree elbow on the end of the pipe that way no snow / rain can blow in at all. . I only know that because when we all had here in NY the big power outage in the fall of 87 the one calleer on my battery operated radio said all the problems they had with that new furnace and right after a man called in and said he was a service man with another company and for proper discharge of the air and to keep snow and rain out simply add a 90 degree elbow facing the ground and 99 per cent of the problems are solved. I have a 21 year old Lennox hot air furnace I would like to replace with a high efficency unit but dollarwise it is not possible but I will tell you. knock on 2wood., there has been no problems in 21 years. keep us posted. Mr. Lee On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 11:06:37AM -0400, David Ferrin wrote: > We've decided to go with the 95% efficiency model furnace. It's $240 more than the 94% unit but I figure with the price of natural gas and electric spiking around here almost every day that minor cost adjustment won't even be noticeable at all. It's a Lennox if I spell that correctly unit and the guy first said they vent them out the roof but I killed that idea toot sweet. I said vent it out the side of my house which in fact is not the storm side which is closer to where the furnace room is located. He said that he had already been up on roofs shoveling snow off of the vent pipe so a customer's furnace would light but like I said not here no way. I'm sure as many of you out there know if that vent pipe gets blocked your furnace is not going to do it's thing. It will be no sooner than next month some time, when exactly though I have no idea. With 2 guys it is billed as a 1 day job as the saying goes a turn key system. I'll post more if anybody is interested as things pr! ogress > . > David Ferrin > www.jaws-users.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch. Come and chat with me at #quietzone on irc.newnet.net [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
