Gas Furnace Louvered Door

Insufficient clearance need metal door or fireproof door to reduce clearance requirements.

Gas furnace louvered door.

Do not install your furnace in a storage closet. If you don t want to or can t use a louvered door here are your other options. Insufficient combustion air need outside air or a full louvered door or a standard door with high and low vents. Note if a louver is used than this will decrease the size of the opening.

Sometimes there is a small grill in the floor that some goof covered up with a piece of carpet that was not ok. The heat can safely escape if there is space around the furnace. Door furnace 22 x 78 5 finished opening size 22 5 x 80 5 free air space. Door furnace 20 x 78 5 finished opening size 20 5 x 80 5 free air space 238 sq.

Some furnaces allowed off sleeping areas with outside air and solid sealed fireproof door. Fresh air is required. A louvered door has horizontal slats for venting if the door is fully louvered over its entire surface then this will work as long as the combined input rating of the gas appliances is less than 175 000 btu hr. Single panel full louvered doors.

Electric furnace no combustion. For a gas or oil furnace a louvered door or a pipe to supply combustion air is required. White finish is electrostatically applied baked on enamel. Sometimes the door is sealed but a pipe comes into the closet to supply combustion air and that s ok.

The heat that the furnace radiates may lead to a fire hazard. Combustion air can be drawn from adjoining spaces. You can connect the furnace room to the rest of. For a 100 000 btu furnace gas fired or oil fired than a 50 square inch fresh air vent is required.