Exterior Vents
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- Опубликовано: 25 ноя 2013
- Rohit Communities presents the customer care video, providing general maintenance tips for your new home that apply to the exterior and interior. Click play to learn more information about your exterior vents.
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Funny you mentioned "Don't worry about birds". My HVAC installer said the same to me but a year later my furnace was not working because there was a bird stuck inside the pipe. Once it got in the pipe it looks like it could not turn around and got all the way to the furnace and trapped there (dead). Long story short YES, worry about birds! I put an adapter to make the pipe bigger on the at the end and a mesh. I live in Minnesota and never had a problem with snow or freezing.
I'm an HVAC tech in RI and just this winter I had 4 calls for that. One of them the squirrel got all the way down into the heat exchanger.
To KK: With anything, If someone tells you not to worry. Don't believe them. Let your mind perk up and heed.
Had a similar problem, a bird started building a nest in there. completely obstructed vent gases, fortunately the tankless water heater wasnt damaged.
Not only birds, mouse,rats and many more other animals looking for shelter on winter cold weather running inside pipe if not protected with a mesh or something special for vents flue
Would nylon screening work better than metal mesh to prevent the water vapor from freezing onto the screen? If no screening is used, how are bugs and critters kept from coming inside? I really don't want the smell of burning bugs, mice, or birds filling my house if they got into the vent pipes and to the burners.
went to the site for more info on your types of outside vents,, site confused me
Thank-you. Our furnace recently died so we got a new one and capped off our roof and the new exhaust went out the side of the building, and I was wondering if I should put a mesh there. We have a steel cage type of thing over our dryer lint exhaust and was curious if I should do something similar to the furnace exhaust. I see some people saying animals will go in, but the pipe doesn't really look that big. I guess I'll just leave it since it's covered under warranty for 10 years.
How far from the soffit can you get away with the placement of the hvac outlet? Getting condensation in my attic on a 2021 furnace instal. I’m 8 hours north of the US/CAN Border.
Question please, I have 80 mph winds and my Goodman dual fuel furnace vent pipe end seems to get overwhelmed with the vacuum caused and then the furnace will not go on. It is a 2"pipe. Vertical out the side of the house. Any suggestions? Thank you so much
Using a Burnham 5 section gas boiler and a AO Smith 50 gallon hot water heater, can you tell me what is the proper PVC fresh air pipe size should I be using ?
How the hell do you quiet these down?
the intake on my 90+ furnace was freezing up, watching (while running) from outside the house, exhaust pipe was blowing down , intake was picking up moist air, and creating ice to form on intake, so I sawed off last second pipe elbow allowing the moist air to blow straight out away from my house, and away from intake pipe and that stopped the freezing problem
wish I could mine is up at soffit level, tired of cleaning out over n over in sub-zero temps up here... guess have to go solar and move to electric instant-on heater... use a Takagi for in floor heating thought the high efficiency save me some money, just created more headaches.. who wants to go out 4AM when -45F windchill to clean out a pipe, not me..
I have a pretty old Lennox furnace. On the fresh air intake there's a tee with a cap on it. About a year ago we had it serviced and the service technician took the cap off for some reason or another. Would that cause my house to have dry air.
You need a humidifier
No not at all. The fresh air only enters the furnace's combustion chamber, not your home.
That was quick.
I think he's pointing wrong exhaust pipe is upward intake always down. Hot air always gonna go upwards. The way he is pointing good luck to new home owner.
Outside the home can the exhaust pvc pipe go up higher than 10 feet or is there some danger in doing that?
Depends on manufactures specs. Read your install books like they’re your bible. Lennox for example has very specific guidelines which stat that the length of the pipe should be less than 25 inches once they break the exterior wall
Birds actually do get into these vents, and if they aren't successful building a nest, all those twigs and debris they left end up falling down the pipe. Spiders make webs in PVC as well.
Which is the fresh air intake? High or low one?
He’s absolutely wrong here. The short one is intake. My water heater just stopped working because the intake got frozen. Know it on my personal experience.
I never understood venting your exhaust downward. gas rises up Wouldn’t it make more sense to put your exhaust higher than your intake
Keeps water from running into the exhaust which is a much bigger concern.
William Barker but his intake is socking the gas back in
William Barker I know that its turned so water don’t get in
Normally the intake faces down. The exhaust either comes straight out or goes up. Never saw it done any differently.
@@Guillotines_For_Globalists the way this guy is saying it sounds like the intake is going up and the exhaust is pointing down and if he is doing that the exhaust would be sucked into the intake
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Don't listen to him about the exhaust mesh. id rather have a service call that is just to melt ice on the exhaust mesh than having to cut the PVC to get a dead squirrel out.
"Don't worry about birds and critters" ...execpt it DOES happen. My neighbor has had bad luck with bird poop requiring an HVAC call two years running. There must be a better solution that does not cause frost build up and still keeps bees, wasps, birds and others OUT.
That's it? lol.