Originally Posted By: dnewton3
Do not worry about rain getting into either the exhaust or intake. Both systems are designed to deal with moisture. In fact, there's likely a p-trap in the system so that there's no gases that pass back into the system. If you remove the door and really study the system, you'll see what I mean. Both intake and exhaust have a tie into a drain (or at least should) that will exit the unit.
I'd just stub them out like the clean install you modified and leave it at that.
Yeah, I'm going to just leave them as-is. And you are correct, there are drains for both in the furnace itself, which then dump into the drain for the house, I plumbed that in when the furnace was installed.
Do not worry about rain getting into either the exhaust or intake. Both systems are designed to deal with moisture. In fact, there's likely a p-trap in the system so that there's no gases that pass back into the system. If you remove the door and really study the system, you'll see what I mean. Both intake and exhaust have a tie into a drain (or at least should) that will exit the unit.
I'd just stub them out like the clean install you modified and leave it at that.
Yeah, I'm going to just leave them as-is. And you are correct, there are drains for both in the furnace itself, which then dump into the drain for the house, I plumbed that in when the furnace was installed.