On Jan 30, 6:34*am, John B. wrote:
On Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:56:51 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:25:02 -0500, wrote:

Houses should have basements - that's where water heaters belong. And
not hidden in a closet - you want them out where you can see it every
day so you see the first sign of seapage.

Right, destroy all those homes than cannot have a basement. *You can
always settle those people on reservations in the Dakotas.

I wonder, with the automated heat systems that are now the norm, how
often does the average home owner go down and snoop about in the
cellar?
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Cheers,

John B.

The problem here is that some folks think that because using basements
as living spaces is common in Canada, where they are from, that it's
done everywhere. Here in the northeast USA, many basements, probably
the majority of them, are not finished. And even those that are,
the water heater, furnace, etc are almost always in an unfinished
area seperated off from the finished space.
So the idea that if you put a water heater in a basement someone is
likely going to see it every day is bogus.