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WARNING: This heater shall not be installed in a
room or space unless the required volume of indoor
combustion air is provided by the method described in
the National Fuel Gas Code, ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54, the
International Fuel Gas Code, or applicable local codes.
Read the following instructions to insure proper fresh air
for this and other fuel-burning appliances in your home.
Today's homes are built more energy efficient than ever. New materi-
als, increased insulation and new construction methods help reduce
heat loss in homes. Home owners weather strip and caulk around
windows and doors to keep the cold air out and the warm air in.
During heating months, home owners want their homes as airtight
as possible.
While it is good to make your home energy efficient, your home needs
to breathe. Fresh air must enter your home. All fuel-burning appliances
need fresh air for proper combustion and ventilation.
Exhaust fans, fireplaces, clothes dryers and fuel burning appliances
draw air from the house to operate. You must provide adequate fresh
air for these appliances. This will insure proper venting of vented
fuel-burning appliances.
PROVIDING ADEQUATE VENTILATION
The following are excerpts from National Fuel Gas Code ANSI Z223.1/
NFPA 54, Air for Combustion and Ventilation.
All spaces in homes fall into one of the three following ventilation
classifications:
1. Unusually Tight Construction
2. Unconfined Space
3. Confined Space.
The information on pages 6 through 7 will help you classify your
space and provide adequate ventilation.
Unusually Tight Construction
The air that leaks around doors and windows may provide enough
fresh air for combustion and ventilation. However, in buildings of
unusually tight construction, you must provide additional fresh air.
Unusually tight construction is defined as construction where:
a. walls and ceilings exposed to the outside atmosphere have a
continuous water vapor retarder with a rating of one perm (6 x
10
kg per pa-sec-m
) or less with openings gasketed or sealed
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and
b. weather stripping has been added on openable windows and
doors and
c. caulking or sealants are applied to areas such as joints around
window and door frames, between sole plates and floors, be-
tween wall-ceiling joints, between wall panels, at penetrations
for plumbing, electrical and gas lines and at other openings.
If your home meets all of the three criteria above, you must provide
additional fresh air. See Ventilation Air From Outdoors, page 7.
If your home does not meet all of the three criteria above, proceed to
Determining Fresh-Air Flow for Heater Location.
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AIR FOR COMBUSTION AND VENTILATION
Confined and Unconfined Space
The National Fuel Gas Code ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54 defines a confined
space as a space whose volume is less than 50 cubic feet per
1,000 Btu per hour (4.8 m3 per kw) of the aggregate input rating
of all appliances installed in that space and an unconfined space
as a space whose volume is not less than 50 cubic feet per 1,000
Btu per hour (4.8 m3 per kw) of the aggregate input rating of all
appliances installed in that space. Rooms communicating directly
with the space in which the appliances are installed*, through
openings not furnished with doors, are considered a part of the
unconfined space.
* Adjoining rooms are communicating only if there are doorless
passageways or ventilation grills between them.
DETERMINING FRESH-AIR FLOW FOR HEATER LOCATION
Determining if You Have a Confined or Unconfined Space
Use this work sheet to determine if you have a confined or uncon-
fined space.
Space: Includes the room in which you will install fireplace plus any
adjoining rooms with doorless passageways or ventilation grills
between the rooms.
1. Determine the volume of the space (length x width x height).
2. Multiply the space volume by 20 to determine the maximum Btu/Hr
3. Add the Btu/Hr of all fuel burning appliances in the space.
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Length x Width x Height =__________cu. ft. (volume of space)
Example: Space size 22 ft. (length) x 18 ft. (width) x 8 ft. (ceiling
height) = 3168 cu. ft. (volume of space)
If additional ventilation to adjoining room is supplied with grills
or openings, add the volume of these rooms to the total volume
of the space.
the space can support.
_______ (volume of space) x 20 = (Maximum Btu/Hr the space
can support)
Example: 3168 cu. ft. (volume of space) x 20 = 63,360 (maximum
Btu/Hr the space can support)
Vent-free fireplace ________Btu/Hr
Gas water heater* ________Btu/Hr
Gas furnace
________Btu/Hr
Vented gas heater ________Btu/Hr
Gas fireplace logs ________Btu/Hr
Other gas appliances* + ____Btu/Hr
Tota
=_______Btu/Hr
* Do not include direct-vent gas appliances. Direct-vent draws
combustion air from the outdoors and vents to the outdoors.
Example:
Gas water heater ________Btu/Hr
40,000
Vent-free fireplace +_______Btu/Hr
33,000
Total
=_______Btu/Hr
73,000
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