vtxdude,
I pinned you down on some exact pinpointing steps to resolve your issue with your water heater, about that draft gauge, #460 air meter from dwyer.
I discussed fpms, *feet per minute* draw to determine the problem if that flue chase is pulling those combustion gases up that flue.
I then asked you to pull that base cap off the tee that serves the vertical of that stack, and I still haven't seen you do anything to that effect.
Now, I watched you start numerous threads, "claiming" you care about your family, but you are implying the exact opposite by ignoring what you call the "good professionals" here on this forum board.
Tell me why you are ignoring my crucial advice that pinpoints the issue of whether or not that flue is drawing to the roof,
Tell me why you can't do for yourself what others are not doing for you at this point (sears installers)
You whining to Sears is getting you nowhere is it? There's no way you took any of the advice from here, or me and shot it to sears to demand a properly working unit.
And now you're drifting away from the gas water heater to electric, double or triple spending at this point because you don't know how to analyze a problem, target the issue and nail it to the cross and fix the damn problem.
You got the sympathy of many that you were wronged on the install, but I can tell you without a doubt; that water heater is not the problem, it's the flue it's attaching to and since Sears touched it, they own the responsibility to fix it because they cannot touch a water heater and not assume the responsibility to make it operate properly.
You are dropping the ball worse than they are because you haven't dug in and fixed it by means of addressing the responsible parties to demand it be done, correctly.
I'm starting to think your overreaction is just the impulse decision to enjoy the audience you are building, because I'm counting the days you've been tinkering with this issue, and that water heater probably has been running every day.
So here's the speculation you create when you sit and ponder "what do I do" semantics:
Attention?
IF, you cared about your family you'd be out of that house, hammering those phones to Chicago Illinois at the Sears headquarters and living in a hotel room with sears footing the bill the whole way through.
But you haven't bought a draft gauge to protect you and others
You haven't pulled that cap off to look up that flue
You are using an internet community for something other than your plumbing related problems.
The answers have been here all along and you just keep ignoring the pertinent ones, glancing over.
Better ask yourself why, and you better think who has the best interest of your family when you're showing the world how much you don't care at this point.
Sometimes when things aren't even your own fault, you have to stand up for yourself and others and protect when situations like this happen.
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I shouldn't have to tell you this, I really shouldn't.