KiltLifter
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Ah HA! DevilsCreek, You said that AC units bring exterior air IN, they do not, they just recirculate the air already in the room! BRING ON THE TUTU!
Ah HA! DevilsCreek, You said that AC units bring exterior air IN, they do not, they just recirculate the air already in the room! BRING ON THE TUTU!
Ah HA! DevilsCreek, You said that AC units bring exterior air IN, they do not, they just recirculate the air already in the room! BRING ON THE TUTU!
The water heater is 28,000 BTUs.
-Cameron
snip.. coupled with things such as a bathroom fan, furnace etc that are exhausting interior air out. As the AC unit is inside, exhausting inside, the reverse is true here.
I was just pulling your chain man, but here's the quote. I was searching hard for a typo or something to call you on, but honestly, I don't really want to see you in a Tutu.
Just to contribute something actually useful to this thread:
I have a concern about getting combustion air from the garage. In many places, water heaters have to be up off the ground if they are in a garage (like 2 feet or so?) so that the pilot or burner will be less likely to ignite gasoline fumes. Personally I wouldn't want to wait til i had 2 feet of fumes before I ignited it, but perhaps it's an air/fuel thing.
There, something helpful. Oops, helpfulness waning, must stop typing.....
Tutu Brewing Company, where we're man enough to wear pink and hoppy to do so.
The point I was making, and tyring not to get to technical for the OP since he doesn't have knowledge in this area, was that sufficient make up air is ESSENTIAL. Recommending a 1/16" gap at the bottom of the door is not something that should be recommended, or would pass a codes inspection. The main goal here is safety.
Not to beat a dead horse, but there are some flaws in your reasoning. The hot air being pulled out of the closet into the garage is not going to radiate through the ceiling as quickly as it is being pumped in, and it will cause the garge to heat up. You are basically adding a heat pump to the garage.
And I didn't see any mention of the CFM of the A/C unit. Maybe I missed it? But most window units blow plenty strong enough to put out a pilot light, especially in a confined space where it is circulating such a small amount of air.
So in a nutshell, DevilsCreekBrewing, you think this is perfectly safe and doable assuming I keep "4 sq in of free area duct, or 2 in dia round duct" of venting into the room available. Is that correct?
Thanks, everyone, for all the comments and discussion.
Cameron
Any update on this?
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