What Is A Concentric Vent

Follow these instructions as well as the basic furnace.

What is a concentric vent.

Subscribe for more great learning videos from alpine. Each two circles in the pencil are concentric and have different radii. This is an alternative to the standard two pipe intake vent shown in the basic furnace installation instruc tions. A concentric vent termination may be used on a power direct vent tank or tankless water heater to get the same benefit of a single wall or roof penetration with an aesthetic vent termination.

Install y concentric fitting and pipe assembly through the hole. The concentric vent allows both the intake for combustion air and the exhaust vent to pass through a standard roof or sidewall. Thanks for watching. Concentric vents make it easier to have a two pipe installation for high efficiency furnaces.

These vents simplify. This is an alternative to the standard two pipe intake vent shown in the basic furnace installation instructions. In that installation separate intake and exhaust vent pipes are run between the water heater and interior wall and only the wall penetration and. The region of the plane between two concentric circles is an annulus and analogously the region of space between two concentric spheres is a spherical shell.

Cement the rain cap to the smaller diameter kit pipe see fig. Cap for 4 cvent. A concentric vent runs both intake and exhaust thru a double wall pipe to the outside of the home either thru the roof or sidewall. Cap for 2 cvent.

Vent screen 3in for concentric vents. Leaving the intake inside the roof in attic as john ask can lead to problems. And check us out at. Vent screen 2in for concentric vents.

Walk through for concentric vent pipe kits. The concentric vent allows both the intake for combustion air and the exhaust vent to pass through a standard roof or sidewall. Vent kit or 5 in diameter for 3 concentric vent kit. Partially assemble concentric vent termination kit.

For a given point c in the plane the set of all circles having c as their center forms a pencil of circles.