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AC, Furnace, HWH all share closet aproximately 3' deep x 10' wide x 6' tall (air return build into platform beneath) The door was not luvered, there was no way for air to be pulled into the room to allow the Nat. Gas furnace to freely vent. After I got to looking there were 2 6" class A vent pipes side by side coming down from the ceiling, one stopped about 6" from the ceiling and the other stopped about 8" off the platform aprox. 1' from the pilot access door. I made a note of it so when I was in the attic i would look for them and figure it out. The 2 pipes just stopped open about a foot above the insulation. In the attic there was a thermostatically controled fan, which actually moved quite a bit of air (4k sq ft house). Not sure if this means anything but it may suck that CO2 right out of there lol... My question is, is this right? wrong? My experience is limited with gas products. My town of origin, gas cooktops, ovens, furnaces, and HWH are not very common, and for the longest time, I did not know what a gas dryer was. Matt the typo king.

Umm.. Nobody was mean to mean, it was very shorthand very fast i had to go and had a few questions so I just described what I had seen and tried to leave it sort of open, I did a very bad job of it. My fault. No one needs to argue over me lol. I deleted the posts cause they were useless for any body to learn off of because I assume you all knew the answers, but my background. I started working for my uncle building when I was about 12 or 13.. however old I was in 6th grade. I haven't built in a number of years. I moved to Tahlequah Oklahoma, famous for their "Indian houses" built in a very primitive, not old but primitive style. This is not my opinion, but every opinion in town. My uncle was famous for being heavy duty on everything. If we built a block wall house, it was reinforced with #4 rebar, ladder bars between every row, and filled with 5k psi concrete. I have never built a "hiddey hole" as they are called here(storm room? safe room?) But from what i have seen, every block house we built is the same methods these storm rooms are built, aside from the ceiling and welding brackets inside concrete, although we built a few metal trusses inside of concrete for tensile strength any time it was a concrete balcony etc. without supporting columns beneath. I don't mean to rant, just trying to explain, sorry. Slabs for a driveway are not 3-1/2" thick or even 4" thick, but 6" thick minimum. Take that and apply it to digging footings for the slabs (if Anyone is near Dallas they will see how the slabs are poured here, I never knew any difference, but whats a soil test? soil tests are not conducted before any small commercial or any residential structures. The last building we built was 1600 sq foot, a small doctors office. The footings were one foot wide and 20" deep, or on the back where the ground was lower, it was almost 24" of solid concrete 1 foot thick with a brick ledge extending out wards 5-1/2" with an additional 20" of concrete. The 1600 sq ft building required somewhere between 50-60 yards monolithic pour. Fun with 2 man crew and a couple wives =) If you feel I'm ranting, let me know, I'm trying to figure out my boundaries here. =) Matt the typo king. EDIT: I also have this problem of typing about one topic, and mid-sentence I will start another without knowing it. Not when I talk, just when I type or write. I had a head injury about 2 years ago and my short term memory is not near as good ever since, this may have part to do with it.

Something similar to CSST? Not sure what CSST is, but I will go google it =), but I think its either polyethylene or something very similar. Maybe they doped the pipe for corrosion resistance the same way you dope the outsde of black iron pipes below grade. Except that stuff is abotu as messy as oil tack, and thats awful smooth... Maybe they take great pride in that work, or somebody needed extra hours and took a buffing pad to it =) Matt the typo king (my new call name )

Thanks again Matt, the uninterpretable

The City Department of Gas here in Tahlequah Oklahoma uses a flexible hose for new gas lines underground, and even use them to stub up into a regulator going to natural gas meters. Most times if there is a problem they will dig up before the leak (relevance to gas flow) cut the line and run it inside the old black iron pipes. They use it for high pressure and low pressure lines, although im unsure of the material its somewhat flexible, almost like aluminum core flex pex. I beleive this is sunlight resistant similar to above/underground pvc conduit. I think the hose should be yellow though, I beleive thats code just about everywhere.

On many pre-made inspection programs I have demo'd, there has been a spot for testing safety devices on furnace and A/C unit, what would this all consist of testing exactly? (Assuming its not a package unit, but a central heat and air with outside condensing unit)

thanks =)

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