Bruce and All, Sorry, I hit send before I had a chance to complete my thoughts. What I meant to say was that I've found AHJs often allow us to cover cold plumbing vents but I've never tried or had any luck with covering hot vents including condensing boiler PVC vents. Once again, if in doubt you could see what the plan checker or inspector thinks.
Best, August -----Original Message----- From: August Goers [mailto:aug...@luminalt.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 4:15 PM To: 'RE-wrenches' Subject: RE: [RE-wrenches] Modules over vents Bruce, I'll send you the CA plumbing code vent section offlist (attachment too large for this list). The way I read the code is that you technically can't cover any type of plumbing or hot vent. However, and I've run into little resistance from AHJs in the Bay Area by covering these. You might want to check in with your plan checker. Best, August Luminalt -----Original Message----- From: RE-wrenches [mailto:re-wrenches-boun...@lists.re-wrenches.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Leininger Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 3:49 PM To: RE-wrenches Subject: [RE-wrenches] Modules over vents Hi all. We're designing a system on a roof that is literally infested with plumbing, exhaust and combustion vents. The combustion vents are PVC and none of the vents are more than 1.5' above the roof. A racking company says that we can cover them with modules, since the modules will be at least 4' above the roof. They have not yet provided any building code references to say that this is ok. Do any of you know if the building code allows this? Thanks. Bruce _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.htm l List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Redwood Alliance List Address: RE-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org Change listserver email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/re-wrenches@lists.re-wrenches.org/maillist.html List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out or update participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
