Is this legal?

Specific Inspection Topics Inspecting HVAC Systems
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Inspected a condo unit in a multi-family building with 6 units the other day. Inside the master bedroom closet, there is another closet with a solid door. Inside there, is a high efficiency gas fired HVAC system that has an intake that draws air from the exterior. No other means of make up air are installed and both doors to the closets are solid.

In my opinion, it is incorrect because the closets are inside of a bedroom. I’ve been told that multi-family building standards allow for this opposed to the standard residential code.

Need an answer ASAP.

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Seen plenty of those here but I am in Wisconsin.

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If it’s drawing combustion air from the exterior why does it need makeup air?

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G2406.2 (303.3) Prohibited locations.
Appliances shall not be located in, or obtain combustion air from, any of the following rooms or spaces:

  1. Sleeping rooms.
  2. Bathrooms.
  3. Toilet rooms.
  4. Storage closets.
    Exceptions:
  5. Direct-vent appliances that obtain all combustion air directly from the outdoors.
  6. Vented room heaters, wall furnaces, vented decorative appliances and decorative appliances for installation in vented solid fuel-burning fireplaces, provided that the room meets the required volume criteria of Section G2407.5.
  7. A single wall-mounted unvented room heater equipped with an oxygen depletion safety shutoff system and installed in a bathroom, provided that the input rating does not exceed 6,000 Btu/h (1.76kW) and the bathroom meets the required volume criteria of Section G2407.5.
  8. A single wall-mounted unvented room heater equipped with an oxygen depletion safety shutoff system and installed in a bedroom, provided that the input rating does not exceed 10,000 Btu/h (2.93 kW) and the bedroom meets the required volume criteria of Section G2407.5.
  9. Appliances installed in an enclosure in which all combustion air is taken from the outdoors, in accordance with Section G2407.6. Access to such enclosure shall be through a solid weather-stripped door, equipped with an approved self-closing device.

and

IRC 2009

M2005.2 Prohibited locations.
Fuel-fired water heaters shall
not be installed in a room used as a storage closet. Water heaters
located in a bedroom or bathroom shall be installed in a sealed
enclosure so that combustion airwill not be taken from the living
space. Installation of direct-vent water heaters within an enclosure
is not required.

From: http://www.nachi.org/forum/f22/gas-water-heater-bedroom-closet-57783/