Originally Posted By: Nick1994
Originally Posted By: dishdude
Originally Posted By: tom slick
In California that installation would only meet half of code. No straps and sitting on the floor along with no drip leg on the gas line wouldn't pass.
Phoenix isn't in an earthquake zone. Everyone keeps applying local codes to this install!
Lol yeah I'm not the least bit worried. This is how water heaters have been installed for at least the 43 years my grandparents have owned the house, more than likely longer. No issues.
And what are people talking about with "code"? Do the water heater police come in to your house in California and write you tickets for not having drip legs?
The items being suggested are additional safety items. If you take pride in your work, you'd want to have your job look like a professional did it and either meet or exceed code. The fact that you haven't had an issue yet doesn't really mean anything. In theory you don't need a pressure relief value either if nothing malfunctions, but it's there as a safety feature. Same thing with the vacuum breaker, people can get sick if there's any reverse flow of water from an outside hose. If you never use an outside hose, then you might never encounter that problem, but if you sell the house and the next person does, they could get sick.
As for the water heater police, it depends, it's more of inspection item, depends if the local authorities there for other reasons like a heating system install or an electrical upgrade looks around the basement and notices that the water heater wasn't installed to local code. Usually they just tell you to get it permitted and to correct any violations. Some towns that are hard up for cash will issue fines.
Also many states now require carbon monoxide detectors in the basement. Do you have one? Again, just a life/safety issue. I think there's some statistic that says in about 1/3 of the fires, there's no smoke detectors or the batteries were taken out of the smoke detector.
Originally Posted By: dishdude
Originally Posted By: tom slick
In California that installation would only meet half of code. No straps and sitting on the floor along with no drip leg on the gas line wouldn't pass.
Phoenix isn't in an earthquake zone. Everyone keeps applying local codes to this install!
Lol yeah I'm not the least bit worried. This is how water heaters have been installed for at least the 43 years my grandparents have owned the house, more than likely longer. No issues.
And what are people talking about with "code"? Do the water heater police come in to your house in California and write you tickets for not having drip legs?
The items being suggested are additional safety items. If you take pride in your work, you'd want to have your job look like a professional did it and either meet or exceed code. The fact that you haven't had an issue yet doesn't really mean anything. In theory you don't need a pressure relief value either if nothing malfunctions, but it's there as a safety feature. Same thing with the vacuum breaker, people can get sick if there's any reverse flow of water from an outside hose. If you never use an outside hose, then you might never encounter that problem, but if you sell the house and the next person does, they could get sick.
As for the water heater police, it depends, it's more of inspection item, depends if the local authorities there for other reasons like a heating system install or an electrical upgrade looks around the basement and notices that the water heater wasn't installed to local code. Usually they just tell you to get it permitted and to correct any violations. Some towns that are hard up for cash will issue fines.
Also many states now require carbon monoxide detectors in the basement. Do you have one? Again, just a life/safety issue. I think there's some statistic that says in about 1/3 of the fires, there's no smoke detectors or the batteries were taken out of the smoke detector.
