dmacy
(David C. Macy, CMI)
March 22, 2013, 7:17pm
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Questions for today’s inspection.
Home has a dual fuel 11 year old forced air, heat pump system.
A 9 year old gas water heater in an unfinished basement venting to a metal chimney.
Patio enclosure (uninsulated), there are 2 distribution openings at enclosure. ducts much larger than the rest of the system.
There is a open vent at enclosure that terminates by the furnace. The furnace is high efficiency vented to exterior with intake from exterior.
The only reason I can see for the opening is for make up air for the water heater, seems like a waste of energy to me.
I think heating, cooling this enclosure is a waste of energy.
What are you thoughts on the openings to the enclosure?
Also the A/C lines were held to the sub floor with modified plumbing piping, seems like an unorthodox method of hanging the lines. Any thoughts there?
One more question.
Home has a balancing, zoned distribution system, as a generalist I would not be testing the effectiveness of this system, what about you?
cbottger
(Charley L. Bottger)
March 23, 2013, 1:19am
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dmacy:
Questions for today’s inspection.
Home has a dual fuel 11 year old forced air, heat pump system.
A 9 year old gas water heater in an unfinished basement venting to a metal chimney.
Patio enclosure (uninsulated), there are 2 distribution openings at enclosure. ducts much larger than the rest of the system. I don’t decide what is to be heated and or cooled just report what is there
There is a open vent at enclosure that terminates by the furnace. The furnace is high efficiency vented to exterior with intake from exterior.
Is this a supply air vent or what where does it originate
The only reason I can see for the opening is for make up air for the water heater, seems like a waste of energy to me.
I think heating, cooling this enclosure is a waste of energy.
What are you thoughts on the openings to the enclosure?
I think it is senseless but again I just report what is there
Also the A/C lines were held to the sub floor with modified plumbing piping, seems like an unorthodox method of hanging the lines. Any thoughts there?
I see nothing wrong with the way it is hung your being to picky
One more question.
Home has a balancing, zoned distribution system, as a generalist I would not be testing the effectiveness of this system, what about you? I test all zone dampers for operationn
No comments as of yet so I guess I will take a stab
dmacy
(David C. Macy, CMI)
March 23, 2013, 10:41am
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There is a open vent at enclosure that terminates by the furnace. The furnace is high efficiency vented to exterior with intake from exterior.
Is this a supply air vent or what where does it originate
The vent terminates in the enclosure (white vent that looks like a bath, dryer). This is the open pipe by the water heater.