Can You Spot the Defect in This Natural Gas Install?

coalkirk · Post by **coalkirk** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 8:41 am

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This was in a home being rehabbed. Work was being done by some non-English speaking fellows from south of the border. At least they put in a shut off valve!

Poconoeagle · Post by **Poconoeagle** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 8:45 am

burners put in for suicide as opposed to heat???

coalkirk · Post by **coalkirk** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 8:47 am

I think maybe it's an automatic duct cleaning system.

Poconoeagle · Post by **Poconoeagle** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 8:49 am

un real what goes on out there. even with instruction sheets in 15 languages, doo-doo occurs if they don't know how to read!!

real clean install also

classic hand prints

JB Sparks · Post by **JB Sparks** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 5:17 pm

Man, that is some sloppy workmanship. Hard to see but, is that valve in backwards?

009to090 · Post by **009to090** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 5:30 pm

What a MESS!!! Don't they believe in cleaning off excess pipe dope? And the blue pipe dope should not be used on the PVC.

coalkirk · Post by **coalkirk** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 8:58 pm

OK, for those who haven't noticed, the gas line is piped into the condensation drain for the A coil. If the gas is turned on, it will send gas through the entire duct system.

Poconoeagle · Post by **Poconoeagle** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 9:03 pm

it will automatically clean all the ducts of those pesky spiders..... ben-deck-ko!!!!

Hambden Bob · Post by **Hambden Bob** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 9:07 pm

Best Ever ! What could go wrong ? Ohhh Mi Dios !

rockwood · Post by **rockwood** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 9:09 pm

Nice! What got connected to the burners?

Let me guess...the little plastic plug is still in place on the gas valve assembly

009to090 · Post by **009to090** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 9:10 pm

I saw the pvc pipe for the A-frame condensation drain. Strange, that the gas would be connected alongside of it.... thinking..... thinking.... Nope, can't figure it out, must be some kind of new-fangled burner that I haven't seen yet

Now that you pointed it out, Yep, the gasline should be below, where it would normally be.
Duh, I questioned it, but missed it

coalkirk · Post by **coalkirk** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 9:11 pm

rockwood wrote:Nice! What got connected to the burners? Let me guess...the little plastic plug is still in place on the gas valve assembly

Yep.

rockwood · Post by **rockwood** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 9:21 pm

coalkirk wrote:
rockwood wrote:Nice! What got connected to the burners? Let me guess...the little plastic plug is still in place on the gas valve assembly
Yep.

Incredible. I'll have to show this one to my HVAC buddy.

coalkirk · Post by **coalkirk** » Fri. Nov. 19, 2010 9:31 pm

Yea, that's some scary *censored*. I don't have a picture of it but a few years ago in another rehabbed house, I found a woodstove newly installed in a basement recreation room. The only problem was that there was only one chimney and it was used for a fireplace on the first floor. The wood stove vent pipe was connected to the ash dump for the fireplace. If a fire had been started, all the smoke and flame would have come out of the ash dump in the bottom of the fireplace. Again mexican "craftsmen."

Poconoeagle · Post by **Poconoeagle** » Sat. Nov. 20, 2010 8:33 am

looks more like "cursed are the gas burners"