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Jim Redelfs Jim Redelfs is offline
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Default Need a new water heater
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A.O. Smith 50 gallon powervent.

OK. *Now we know.

This is NOT a "conventional" water heater in that it is
presumably not a "direct vent", common heater. *Given
that, the installed price doesn't strike me as excessively
high.

What makes you think it's not a direct vent model?

The word "powervent".

To me, that implies that it is a substantially more expensive POWER
VENTED heaters that have its exhaust gas fan-forced out the SIDE of the
house through a PVC tube - just like a condensing, high-efficiency gas
furnace.
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JR
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