Furnace Fire hazard
I want to make everyone aware of a potential fire hazard I encountered while I was trying to figured out why my furnace (AFMD35121_ _A) made by ATWOOD was smoking, almost killed my family and burned m...
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charlesdennis01 wrote:time2roll wrote:
Let's see those pictures....
if you can give me a hand on how to post pictures here I will post all the pictures I have, with a detail explanation of what is that you are looking, some folks here are really critical of how things are being said, but is ok it takes all kinds to make this world go around.
This pictures is a close up of what happened, the pipe from the furnace was just to close to the linoleum and of course with time the flooring got dry from all the heat to the point of ignition.
The picture shows the pipe in question you can see that the pipe is just to close to the edge and the furnace should have been place with the spacers not directly on the linoleum or plywood.
This picture you can see the unsafe installation of the sheet metal, the linoleum and ultimate the furnace. Who ever did this was just lazy didn't even put enough aluminum tape to cover the edge and instead of putting the sheet metal over the linoleum or at least cutting the linoleum it was just left as is.
This picture is just a little further out of where the furnace goes in, again, according to the installation manual that comes wit the furnace it saids that the installation should be done from an exterior wall, if I'm wrong please illuminate my ignorance so I can learn more.
