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John Kogel
11-23-2009, 05:06 PM
This was a 1995 1500 sq ft one storey home with a 3 foot crawlspace and an electric furnace in the utility room. There were heat registers in the floors of all the rooms, a central thermostat, and the house was comfortably warm. Seemed all pretty ordinary till I opened the hatch to the crawl and felt a blast of heat instead of clammy damp air! Whadya know, the furnace is dumping hot air into the crawl and there is no ductwork installed! I got a pic of the heat coils by sticking my camera into the housing below the furnace, neat!

Lucky for me the buyer is a fairly savvy guy and it wasn't hard to convince him that ducts would be more cost efficient. :D

Jim Luttrall
11-23-2009, 05:39 PM
Needless to say, there was no permit unless the local AHJ had his head where the sun don't shine.