Crawlspace furnace

[Buck Hartley, CMI]

Furnace laying directly on the dirt floor of crawlspace.

Thanks!

[Larry D. Kage]

Originally Posted by bhartley

Furnace laying directly on the dirt floor of crawlspace.

Thanks!

Well, that's not a good plan.

It looks like single wall vent pipe there too.

[Buck Hartley, CMI]

Good eye! It was and passes through the pantry.

[rdimmerling]

saves space and is easy to install....looks pretty good

[jbettencourt]

Should be pretty easy to change the filters on that bugger. I have seen a few like that in our city as well.

[Frank P. Newman]

That type of installation is pretty common around here, although they are usually sitting on bricks or blocks depending on the space available. At least this one is on a gravel bed, which should work out ok as long as there is no water under the house. Of course, we can't see if there is a vapor barrier in place as it should be.

[Buck Hartley, CMI]

Frank,

No vapor barrier installed

[Dan Bowers, CMI]

Do you have a readily accessible area directly in front of the burners? Looked like the cast iron pipe stops that.

[Buck Hartley, CMI]

No, wrote that also.