On Mar 7, 8:09*am, jamesgangnc wrote:
On Mar 7, 6:37*am, Mikepier wrote:

My water heater has a 3/4" copper pipe from the T&P valve extending
down about 8" from the floor. I have a sump pit about 5 feet to the
left. I wanted to somehow route this discharge pipe into the pit in
case somethig happens.
Obviously it would be easy if I used some kind of flexible hose rated
for high temps. Is there anything wrong in doing it this way? How is
it usally done?

What kind of floor do you have? *If it's concrete I'd probably just
leave it alone. *I've never seen one of those valves blow myself. *I
have seen them develop leaks that you will not notice if you route it
into your sump pit. *I have seen slow leak failures of hw tanks as
well as catastrophic failures. *All were the tank leaking, not the
safety valve. *If you want to do something to protect the floor area
of your basement I'd suggest a pan under your hw tank and route a
drain from it to your pit. *The pan will cvatch the pipe as well.

I've had it happen at least three times that I recall. Made an unholy
mess. next place I have, if there's not a floor drain in the room w/
the WH, will have some kind of setup like the OP is describing. The T/
P valves do weaken with age, and have an unfortunate habit of sticking
open once released.

First time was Xmas morning @ my parents' house while I was home from
college. I went downstairs before anyone else got up and was going to
run some laundry; stepped into the (carpeted - really? don't worry,
that's been fixed) laundry room and was greeted with warm
squishiness. Merry freakin' Christmas, hope you weren't going to take
a nice hot shower.

nate