One guess… I stared at this for several minutes in disbelief!
Yes… it is installed upside down. This guy did more work to make this work… would have been much easier to just run back to the shop and get the proper unit. It has been in this house like this for two years. Above it was also some undisclosed charring to the joists and decking. Also note the flex line running into the unit. You cant see it but the vent pipe is disconnected about two feet above the cabinet. Also missing a reducer for the vent pipe.
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Kindest Regards,
Darren Montgomery, MBA
318-294-4444
Certified by the Louisiana State Board of Home Inspectors;
License #10575
National Association of Certified Home Inspectors;
License #07030403
International Code Council #5323222
About 5 years into my HI career, I was feeling pretty cocky, not having had any serious complaints against my work and, like you, thought I must have seen it all by now…until…
I inspected a rural property that had a certified older wood/oil combination furnace. As I moved around to one side of it, out of the side of the original casing was a run of #2/3 cable. Upon further investigation, I found that the insides of the oil section had been removed and replaced with an electric forced air furnace, “lock, stock and barrel”! This invalidated any certifications on both units.
Asked the owner (an insurance salesman!!!), “Who did the work?”. “An electrician”, he says. I ask “A Licensed electrician??” “Yes” says he. What!!! Since then my saying has been: "if I don’t see something odd, bizarre, different, “what were they thinking” stupid every week, I must have had my eyes closed. And sure enough, in busy times, every week I find something.
This unit is designed as for downdraft or horizontal applications only. It is mounted in an updraft configuration. But you are correct in that in a horizontal application it would be ok.
