Furnace Inspection

[bjarvis]

With a new furnace installed, we need to have it inspected. Rather, we need it inspected twice: once by the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (our water & sewage service) and again by Montgomery County.

This morning, the WSSC inspector visited and approved the furnace with one catch: he wants us to remove the door off the basement rec room which leads back to the furnace & laundry room. He'd be willing to have us replace it with a louvered door --I'd prefer that option so we can physically section off the furnace room, etc., for safety when the kiddies are visiting.

The county will be dropping by to inspect the new beast tomorrow.

The question in my mind: why does the water & sewage service care in the slightest about our natural gas furnace? The installers told me its because the air conditioner unit of the combo might pump the collected condensed water into the house drain and god forbid WSSC process a few extra gallons of drained water they didn't initially provide. Still, our AC drains to the side yard outside the house so WSSC should just confirm that and go away, IMHO.

Whatever.

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

And as I think you noted, you had to pay for both those inspections.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Well, it's not a line item in our invoice and I didn't have to write a check during the inspection itself. That said, I have no idea if the inspections are built into the package price of the furnace installation --I didn't think to ask at the time. If nothing else, I'm sure I'm paying for this via my local taxes and/or service charges. Nothing comes for free.