Direct venting or side wall vent chimney and flue systems are a method of venting the exhaust gases from a heating appliance directly out through the side wall of a building while eliminating the need for a vertical chimney of any sort.
Venting a gas heater through wall.
Gas or oil fired side wall power vents are provided by several manufacturers listed at the end of this article.
Typical vents are usually galvanized sheet metal ducts vented through the wall or vented through the roof with a flue.
Illustrations of proper gas fired water heater venting using type b double wall vent pipe through a roof above or through a chimney below include details for the flue vent connector such as the requirement of a minimum vent connector upwards slope of 1 4 per foot of horizontal run.
Instead both systems typically expel exhaust through a pipe that runs.
Venting a garage heater through a wall the other solution to ventilating your garage when installing a gas heater is to run the vent duct through the wall of your garage.
You ll need to same tools as the ones required for a roof vent.
You ll want your ductwork and the flange to be of the same size.
Direct venting and power venting systems offer greater flexibility because neither requires a direct line to the roof.
Direct vent water heaters with a direct vent system air for combustion is drawn from a vent pipe that runs through an exterior wall or the roof.