On Nov 20, 1:50*pm, "Percival P. Cassidy" wrote:
On 11/19/08 10:38 am HeyBub wrote:

I've been reading various installation/operation manuals online and
see that the pipe from the T&P valve should go to a floor drain. We
don't have a floor drain in the basement utility room where the water
heater and HVAC is located; the present overflow pipe has a bucket
under it. The sump (with pump) is two rooms away. There is a wimpy
little pump that pumps the a/c condensate to the sump via a skinny
plastic tube that runs up and above the suspended ceiling.
An alternative configuration is to run the output of the T&P valve up into
the attic, across, and out the soffit.

You don't want to be around the output of the sucker when it blows.

People tell me that that would be a code violation:: T&P valve must not
discharge uphill.

Perce

That's true. There's also a limit to the number of bends in that
line. Mine are dumping on the floor for that reason as well, although
I have thought about just ignoring the code and piping them into the
deep sink. (I could do it easily; just not without having too many
bends.) I have a small catch container under each one; if I see any
moisture in one I will replace T&P valve immediately.

nate