Water Heater Vented To Basement Slab

[John Evans]

Inspection today, new gas water heater with powered vent. The vent pipe terminates in the basement slab. Any thoughts? Can't re-size the photos correctly to meet the size limitations imposed on this board.

[Larry D. Kage]

Originally Posted by jevans

Inspection today, new gas water heater with powered vent. The vent pipe terminates in the basement slab. Any thoughts?

Well, it needs to vent to the outside properly and, typically, slope up on its way.

Originally Posted by jevans

Can't re-size the photos correctly to meet the size limitations imposed on this board.

Go here and download the image resizer. Then you can highlight as many pictures as you want to resize, right click on them, click resize image and chose the size you want and it will save the original pics and create the new pics of the size chosen. Works great. Try it.

[John Allingham]

Originally Posted by jevans

Inspection today, new gas water heater with powered vent. The vent pipe terminates in the basement slab. Any thoughts? Can't re-size the photos correctly to meet the size limitations imposed on this board.

Well, that's one way to keep the radon out.
Seriously, I can't believe that you could get proper venting with that much back pressure.
Go online and see what the manufacturer has to say.