Mike Lamb Posted January 13, 2017 Report Share Posted January 13, 2017 Click to Enlarge 31.21 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leighton Jantz Posted January 13, 2017 Report Share Posted January 13, 2017 I can't find the pic. but that reminds me of when there was a new gas range/oven installed in a home, they thought they would save the cardboard packaging for handles, burner covers etc. in the drawer under oven. Luckily the drawer was tight enough the fire choked itself out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted January 13, 2017 Report Share Posted January 13, 2017 Ya mean stuff like this ain't OK! Click to Enlarge 45.06 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHI in AR Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 Just curious... I've seen problems with single wall pipe, but has anyone ever seen problems with double wall (B vent) piping closer than 1" to combustibles? Honestly, in 17 years I can't recall that I ever have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 I've never seen a dryer fire either but according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than 15,000 fires are sparked every year by clothes dryers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AHI in AR Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 I've never seen a dryer fire either but according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than 15,000 fires are sparked every year by clothes dryers. I had a woman tell me that when she was a kid they had a dryer fire caused by a mouse nest in the vent (presumably) constructed while they were on vacation. Don't newer dryers have thermal fuses to prevent this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 Just curious... I've seen problems with single wall pipe, but has anyone ever seen problems with double wall (B vent) piping closer than 1" to combustibles? Honestly, in 17 years I can't recall that I ever have. Click to Enlarge 28.13 KB Click to Enlarge 25.33 KB Click to Enlarge 24.72 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 I've never seen a dryer fire either but according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, more than 15,000 fires are sparked every year by clothes dryers. I finally found one last year. I kept smelling something burning, looked and looked, finally found this weird little mechanical space behind a closet, found the plastic duct snaking through there, felt it, kinda warm, then when I lifted it slightly, it kinda melted/fell apart, and all the smoldering that had been going on inside burst into flame. Then it was me frantically stamping out a bunch of little lint brush fires. The client just stood there with their mouth in a little "O" shape..... I got to look smart that day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 My dryer started on fire, but not as most would imagine. The drum bushing went bad an lint was blowing around the drum into the cabinet, collected on the drum bearing ( a steel ball joint in a HDPE socket with high temperature grease) until there was enough fuel and friction to ignite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lamb Posted January 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 This is from my website: http://www.inspection2020.com/newsletter.pdf I also have personally never seen a problem with B-vents next to combustibles. Jim's pictures are certainly atypical. Maybe they put the B-vent on after the single wall vent did the damage? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 When attic insulation runs up against a B-vent coming from a fireplace, I sometimes see burned insulation. Marc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Amaral Posted January 17, 2017 Report Share Posted January 17, 2017 I did a restaurant a few years back.. (Mcd "Type" of structure, trusses, mansard roof,etc). The baking-oven (for bagels) was disconnected in the attic.. Massive char going on all over the place....a 'Study in Pyrolysis" .... It's the only inspection where I told the occupant that I was sorry... but next stop (for me) was the FD... they (FD and occupant) thanked me.. ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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