Never underestimate the creative ability of morons.
They probably wanted to pre-heat the shower before getting in:mrgreen:
Nice!
Which hat did you have on during that inspection?
That was a home inspection. Foreclosed home.
It looks silly but does it really violate anything except common sense?
Maybe changing it to a stainless steel or plastic louver is all that is needed.
What will happen when water gets inside the ducts?
It depends on how it was fed.
I wasn’t there.
You could certainly put a hooded deflector over it to prevent water ingress.
Other than common sense did it violate any code?
I wasn’t doing a code inspection. I’d have to research it to know for sure what the code says about location.
Is there a possibility of water getting inside the wall system (hood or no hood)? What might happen?
That’s why I asked.
These are the situations were being on site makes it easy to determine if there is a real problem.
Pictures by them selves just don’t do it.
They certainly could have provided a better solution than what is pictured.