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That will melt. You need a stainless steel one.im going to fit my water heater on the weekend. I'm going to fit a flue to the roof. In the picture surely if that was fitted to the top of my van the rain could go down into it any suggestions thanks
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I would contact Hamilton Gas Products and ask them to measure the size of that adaptor collar as you need it to fit on the exhaust sleeve of your heater
Another local windie used a "universal Rinnai 58e gas water heater flue kit" which he got from the same company. It would appear they supply this one now
You will need to get some heat resistant adhesive/sealer to seal the cowl onto the roof. I can't find the name of it but I'm sure it was available from B & Q. You need the cowl to sit about 4" off the roof to stop the heat burning the paint on the roof.
There was another cleaner on the other forum who had his vent melt and he replaced it with a metal mushroom vent. That was his experience when he went hot so we pass that info on. But he then had problems with the heater as the gases weren't escaping properly. So in my books anything that's not metal is suspect.would you not want something more low profile like this @spruce ?
Flettner 2000 Rotating Wind Driven Van Roof Air Vent Black
Surely the exhaust heat (after running say 10ft through piping from heater to vent) would not be hot enough to melt polypropylene?
Of course I can accept I may be wrong.
I used a dryer vent that looked like this, only with a bigger overhang (This one is designed to be wall mounted - mine was roof mounted) and made of metal because exhaust fumes are still hot enough to melt plastic even after a few feet of vent hose: Lambro 222W Plastic Dryer Vent Hood, 3" | eBay
You should actually keep the vent hose as short as possible - otherwise fumes can start building up in the van. I had an ecotemp L5 heater from the USA - but the only ones you can get these days have a 20 minute cut-out built in, so they're no good for window cleaning - plus it was hard to fit a vent to that one.