Originally Posted By: rkuntz
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Originally Posted By: Lee Hammerstein
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It could be. Water heaters were manufactured in the 1980s and 1990s that vented through a flexible hose like the one in the picture. They were power vented and terminated through a wall cap that looked like a large dryer vent cap (no damper of course).
Were the installation instruction available?
Originally Posted By: rcloyd
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Check the installation manual or the manufacturer’s web site for proper venting.
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Originally Posted By: chorne
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no vaccume breaker and the wiring is wrong.
was there a tpr valve with extention?
also appears to be very old
Originally Posted By: Lee Hammerstein
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What is a vacuum breaker and what is wrong with the wiring?
Originally Posted By: pdickerson
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Are you sure that’s a water heater? I have never seen one that looks like that.
Originally Posted By: Blaine Wiley
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I’m not sure why you need a vacuum breaker there. We do require expansion tanks on the cold side around here, but that didn’t start until 2002, and that there water heater is much older than that. It will die soon!
The power cord runs the power vent motor. It is usually clamped at the motor, so I'm not sure that it needs a clamp at the top of the cabinet too.
That thing is old. 