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Dan Espen

(capitol) writes:

We hired a local construction company to install a french drain and to
finish off our entire basement. Along one of the walls sits the hot water
heater. They plan on moving it but not until the start the actual
'finishing' of the basement. Anyway, they cut the concrete floor and
installed the drain around the hot water heater, coming out about three
feet. Should they have moved it then proceeded with the french drain. Our
basement does get wet so I'm a bit concerned. The contractor says its no
big deal.

He's right.
They went around my furnace.
Absolute worst thing that can happen is that you have a trickle of
water flow from the wall to the drain.
It's not going to hurt anything since you won't have a finished floor
under the water heater.