At 02:08 PM 12/5/2011, Alistair Bell wrote: >Funny how the owner's manual says the vent should be uncovered >except during car washes. Well a) it makes it *really* hard to light.** And b) the covers deteriorate in the sun. I can't see any other actual problem with leaving them on, and it keeps wasps etc from building nests in the flues. **I once had a house trailer. It had a little six-inch-high mushroom thing called a roof jack instead of a proper chimney for the furnace. I went away for a week, there was a big snow, I came back and it was ten below (Fahrenheit) inside the trailer. The spider plant didn't like it but surprisingly the plumbing survived. Anyway I was pretty slow - I had the propane furnace puff back in my face three or four times before I thought to go clear out the roof jack. Yours, David |
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