Water Heaters - Manufactured Home waterheater

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curtisd
05-18-05, 01:44 PM
What is the difference between a regular water heater and a manufactured home waterheater? Is it just a liability issue or is there othere specific reasons?

594tough
05-22-05, 08:23 AM
Due to installation requirements, a so-called manufactured home WH may have the cold wate inlet on the side vs the top, and it may be a direct vent vs vertical flue with combustion air from the room.

If the installation situation is proper, a " conventional" water heater is often used in manufactured homes; but a labeled "manufactured home" WH cannot be used in any other type of dwelling.
mbk3
05-22-05, 10:21 PM
Not knowing where a mfg home may end up and the type of gas it will be using, many are equipped with water heaters that are easily converted from LP to Nat and vice versa. Pretty much the same as mobile homes

notuboo
05-26-05, 07:13 AM
Manufactured home (mobile home) water heaters are made different in that the clearances are tighter.

Space requirements usually require shorty units and as mentioned in other posting, water inlet configurations creat other special considerations.

Also the venting, as mentioned by 594tough requires air to be from directly outside, usually from the floor of the area, and exhausted back to the exterior.