Raising Water Heater Off Floor

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Raising water heater off floor. The pilot light from your water heater is the flame that will ignite the fumes from any spilled flammable liquids. How high should your water heater stand lift up your water heater unit. Raising a water heater off the floor posted by fishfighter on 6 24 16 at 6 07 pm to plazadweller first off you going to need a platform to sit the heater on. I have never seen a hot water heater that was not sitting on legs or concrete blocks.

Old 37 year old water heater needing to be raised 18 inches and brought up to the current code. The floor drain is about 3 away. If you know how to weld no big deal just build one out of metal or have one built. Raising hot water heater off basement floor.

I just had a new hot water heater installed and it is sitting directly on the concrete floor in my basement. I am just wondering if i should call the installer back and have him put it up on something. The water heater lasted through all these situations as a result of its raised height. Fvir water heaters exempted but even with the requirement to elevate any source of ignition up above the floor numerous house fires continued to be attributed to the gasoline fume ignition in the garage.

There have been times were the basement has gotten several inches of rain due to flooding etc. An open flame close to the floor like the pilot light in a water heater can set off an explosion and subsequent house fire. I just replaced a 25 year water heater by my parents house. The uniform plumbing code which establishes standards nationwide says that the flame or sparking mechanism in a gas water heater must be at least 18 inches off the ground.

The unit had a water heater stand that kept it off the ground by 18 inches or so. In the span of 25 years there were lots of incidents such as flooding in the basement.