Buying a house and the inspection report noted a safety hazard for a flue pipe serving the gas furnace. They said there is not sufficient clearance from combustible materials and state a clearance of at least 1" is required. They noted it may result in pyrolysis.
Given that we have some 100% necessary work that we need to do/things we need to buy; how urgent is it that we fix something like this? Obviously there's no way to know for sure, but on a scale of "you have a fire next to a plastic bucket of gasoline" and "you have one outlet in the house that doesn't work" where would you say this ranks on the "must fix" spectrum?
There is also some other HVAC work we want done (pulling up ducts off the floor in the attic, taking a look at some A/C differential, etc.) so we'd prefer to wait a couple months and get some other stuff done first, but wanted to get thoughts of experts.
We have reached out to a couple local HVAC companies, but they all say they want to come take a look (which is certainly fair, but we don't close for a couple of weeks, so we can't have it inspected right now and would like to just get an idea of what the notation even means).
Given that we have some 100% necessary work that we need to do/things we need to buy; how urgent is it that we fix something like this? Obviously there's no way to know for sure, but on a scale of "you have a fire next to a plastic bucket of gasoline" and "you have one outlet in the house that doesn't work" where would you say this ranks on the "must fix" spectrum?
There is also some other HVAC work we want done (pulling up ducts off the floor in the attic, taking a look at some A/C differential, etc.) so we'd prefer to wait a couple months and get some other stuff done first, but wanted to get thoughts of experts.
We have reached out to a couple local HVAC companies, but they all say they want to come take a look (which is certainly fair, but we don't close for a couple of weeks, so we can't have it inspected right now and would like to just get an idea of what the notation even means).
source https://hvac-talk.com/vbb/threads/2228242-Gas-Flue-Without-one-inch-Clearance-How-Much-of-a-Safety-Hazard?goto=newpost
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