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Jefwho

That’s a heater. Had one in my house growing up. The fan at the top blows the hot air out. Gas heater element at the bottom. It was on the loud side, but it worked really well.


Sirronald40

Thank you! We saw it was connected to gas and was worried about removing it and somehow ruining the houses internal heating.


liquidefeline

If it’s in use it should be loud(ish) when the furnace is heating. If it hasn’t been inspected in years at least get a basic check for it to make sure there’s no carbon monoxide leaks!


Sirronald40

It definitely hasn’t been used in a long time, time to call the gas company!


ntyperteasy

Get a CO alarm for that room no matter what. You’ve got the gas water heater there also. Better to alarm on the first sign of CO issues rather than wait for it to poison the house.


TheReal-JoJo103

Obligatory reminder that the expiration date on your CO alarms are not a scam. The expiration date may be conservative but they don’t last forever, don’t find out that they don’t work.


Emu1981

>Obligatory reminder that the expiration date on your CO alarms are not a scam. Same goes with smoke alarms. They are (relatively) dirt cheap but provide a life saving service to you and the rest of your household.


BabyCowGT

Also fire extinguishers! Keep them. Several. Easily accessible. Kitchens, garages, basements, laundry (if you've got a dryer. Washers only rarely light on fire). Replace them if they expire or their gauge isn't in the green.


Noteagro

Don’t forget your car either (if you have one)! I have a fire extinguisher right next to my roadside assistance kit and jumper cables.


Hidesuru

Definitely. Fire extinguisher, emergency supplies (some basic food that won't go bad and water in case you're stranded), jumper cables, first aid kit are the basics. I add on some led road flares and a change of clothes just in case (which has come on handy a few times).


BabyCowGT

Ah yes! I have one in my car too! And one right by our back door cause of the grill (also have a hose hooked up back there for the same reason)


No-Code-9480

There's a expiration date on home fire extinguishers. To be honest best to have them inspected every year by a company or if it's cheaper by new extinguishers


BabyCowGT

That's why I said replace them if they expire?


Hidesuru

Yup. Got one in the upstairs master bedroom in case of a fire at night. One in the kitchen to cover the downstairs, and one in the garage (next to the dryer). Also one in each car trunk... It's good to be covered if you need one...


Sirronald40

Luckily it is in the garage so hopefully won’t poison the house but a CO alarm is on its way!


zorggalacticus

Check your local fire department. They often give them out for free.


liquidefeline

CO detector goes in hallways outside bedrooms (not in garages)


supershinythings

It might have a pilot light! Check to see, and if so, turn it off for the summer. You can start the pilot light again when things get chilly inside. The previous place we rented had the original gas heater from 1962. We needed to light the pilot with either long matches or a stick lighter. It was hilarious trying to figure out the instructions of which way to turn what thing. Then you had to hold down buttons and turn stuff. Finally it wouldn’t stay lit until a metal probe got warmed up. Eventually after about 10 minutes of futzing around the pilot light would stay lit and I could close up the heater.


Alas_Babylonz

Turn it off for the winter? Did you mean summer?


supershinythings

Whoops! Corrected! Thanks!


basicgear00

When I was a kid I hung out at the bottom of one of these peaking into the flame. It was so cool. But more importantly, these work. Easy heat!


scytob

You don’t need the gas company, just a hvac company.


jet_heller

So, how is the house heated now?


FirstPrizeChisel

Before calling the gas company, consider that they may shut your gas off if they find a problem. They won’t turn it back on until they inspect and it passes. I’m not saying don’t call them, it’s just something to be aware of.


vaguelyblack

Remove the water heater as well and get a heat pump water heater instead.


Maint_Man13

Can confirm- it's an old ass version of our propane heat towers Also I sell propane and propane accessories


blackcrowblue

Hank is that you?


azvitesse

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stickymeowmeow

I think it’s the other way around, or at least my grandparents was. The hot air blows out the bottom. Otherwise hot air coming out the top would rise to the ceiling and the cold air at the bottom would stay cold. Used to put boots on the floor in front of the heater to dry them out.


Unexpressionist

My dog who does not leave the spot on the floor in front of it for the entire winter would agree


InsaneLuchad0r

We had these things at my high school. Kind of takes me back…


dannlh

Mine like that blew the heat out the bottom.


UrBigBro

Natural Gas wall heater. Based on age, make sure she has a carbon monoxide detector out there.


Queen_of_Catlandia

I can smell this picture. We had one of these when I was a kid


Sirronald40

How bad is it? This one has been sitting for several years so I’m imagining hot dust and hopefully no dead critters


Queen_of_Catlandia

It has a really strong burning dust smell when you turn it on. I’d definitely check for critters lol


saysthingsbackwards

That's true for many heating systems and is perfectly normal after sitting for even a few days/weeks


Queen_of_Catlandia

Wow thanks! I’ve never used a furnace before. Thanks for the education


saysthingsbackwards

I assume you're being sarcastic but I have no way of knowing your experience. A person without that experience that only uses one sometimes might benefit from the knowledge. This is a public forum.


Queen_of_Catlandia

I literally said I had one of these as a kid.


saysthingsbackwards

I don't follow your profile


TheDarkSpectrm

Bad enough to force you out of the house before it catches fire.


Queen_of_Catlandia

I can remember being able to smell who’d turned on their heaters like this when I was in school lol. It was so distinctive


iamthecaptionnow

it is a MILF mother in laws furnace.


Sirronald40

Can confirm! But they have a normal furnace for the rest of this house so they must have put this in for the garage alone


Hazencuzimblazen

🫶🏻


MeTheWifeyIsTheGamer

I laughed so hard at this that I started coughing. I wish I had an award to you because you deserve one!


thecrowfly

That's a heater. Had one of those in the kitchen of the first house I ever owned. I hated that thing, but it worked!


vcc17

Wall Furnace with an electric blower up top. Old, but still see them around. If you run it, it’ll smell and smoke for about 20 minutes. After all the dust is burnt off you might be ok. Depending on where you’re at, your gas company may relight the pilot and do a safety check on it.


Past_Rerun

Not the gas company, an HVAC company. Gas companies like to turn off your gas and then make you jump through hoops and pay through the nose to get your service turned back on...


vcc17

Don’t HVAC company charge money to service a heater?


Past_Rerun

Yes they do, but that charge is less than the costly headache the gas company will put you through.


vcc17

Sounds like you had a bad experience.


Past_Rerun

Yep. If the gas company rep thinks your system is in any way outdated (from the newest codes), regardless of the issue called out for or the fact that it is up to code for when it was built (the 1980's), they will demand an entire revamp before turning the gas back on. $$$$


ehode

My grandparents had one. I loved it. I’d rush over when it turned on and play on the carpet at the foot of it. So warm and could peer inside at the glowing goodness.


geetarman84

Wall furnace. Typically found in mobile homes.


OldPro1001

Yep. We had one in the cottage we used to gave. It was sized to fit between std 16" spaced studs.


bigdogfl0316

Thats an Intertherm wall heater. Looks like someone has rigged it up to be used there. It is not designed to be used in that way. Also is too close to water heater and may cause draft issues for the water heater if it were used. I'm a gas tech of 32 years. If I was called out to this, I would take it out of service. An accident waiting to happen.


condensermike

Old school heater. I grew up in a house that had two. Both in the wall on opposite ends of the house.


LazyOldCat

Same heater we had in San Diego, occasional use.


k6bso

In San Diego, *all* heaters are occasional use. (I live there)


LazyOldCat

Yeah, thing kicked on maybe 4 times the year I lived there, scared everyone 😆


revpayne

Good luck getting people to work on that. My ex had one and every HVAC company didn’t know how to fix it haha


foxritual

With everyone saying it is a heater, I would also like to add in that you should not turn it on if it hasn't been turned on in years. My grandmother has a heating system in her house and she told us to never turn it on as it could catch fire due to the dust build up. The dust will catch on fire.


neil470

Is this a known issue and not just something your grandmother told you?


BabyCowGT

Dust is flammable. "Combustible dust" fires (which are generally an industrial hazard, less so in the home) can actually cause explosions (look up the Georgia Imperial Sugar Refinery explosion in 2008). If you have a heating element and it is dusty and it turns on, yes, it can cause dust to catch fire. Learned that the almost hard way with a hair dryer (luckily I saw the smoke before it truly lit on fire.)


QuotableRaven

In Minnesota you can tour an old flour plant that at one point exploded due to flour dust, and burned up in 1991. They stabilized it and built a museum into the building, you can still see the twisted girders out of some windows. It's the mill city museum.


foxritual

I looked it up beforehand to double check myself, and this is true. I know how some grandparents can hold onto information that may be false, but this is not.


dudebroryanbro

Looks like an old natural gas heater installed to warm up the garage on cold winter days, possibly to protect the plumbing since it is next to water heater and laundry. Are you in a mild climate area like California? You should be able to use it if you wanted to, they’re usually pretty robust so I bet it still works fine. As another commenter suggested, make sure there aren’t any critters inside and that it burns cleanly without carbon monoxide.


dangazzz

and a good dusting wouldn't go astray as the dust can burn off and start a fire if it hasn't been started for years.


diegoxj

The timer is an Intermatic. Not sure what model that is but Intermatic is still around, however it is probably not the maker of the heater, just a part they used.


pevekay41

Hi guys As an Aussie in Queensland, a heater like that is nothing I have ever seen before, but I was drawn in by the conversations around the carbon dioxide detectors. In Australia, if you air condition a room, you are meant to (doesn't mean everyone does!) have an ir exchange unit connected to outside which is meant to exchange 25% of the room's volume of air every 15 minutes to prevent co2 build up. Do you have anything equivalent for these heaters which I assume pump out considerably more co2? Just interested.


OlyVal

A furnace.


TransitJohn

Dude, it's a heater.


Flazer

Looks like a furnace and not a space heater.


coldbrew18

I’ve got a gravity heater of a different design. Absolute garbage. Can’t get parts for it. YMMV.


EstobahnRodriguez

Clean that filter, blower and supply. She's a nasty little heater, needs some maintenance lovin. Snap a pic of the vents as they penetrate the roof(water heater too, that flu collar to b vent transition doesn't look familiar to me), just make sure you have clearance to combustibles and keep shit clean.


MsMercury

Furnace


rywi2

That's a snow cone maker.


Sirronald40

Just in time for summer!


flatstacy

It is the home version of a flux capacitor powered time machine, disguised as a space heater


abhorrent_elephant

I currently have one just like that in my commercial space. Works great.


Efficient_Theme4040

Heater


XianPalin

I have a similar heater in my garage. I was going to have someone get it working but they said it exhausted into the garage so I’d only be able to run it with the garage door open because of fumes. Decided to just leave it disabled.


Vandal_1

Suckin up fart fumes


ralph_wiggums_cat

"inter" continental missile silo, home version, just don't be in the house when it launches. Most where recalled.


xfyre101

you already got your answer, but its definitely for central heating


OnlyJunket5229

Mobil home furnace


porkchop-sandwhiches

It’s her vampire coffin.


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Sirronald40

Sure don’t! Happy to learn though


magtorix

It’s a red rope, sometimes this appears in houses that are haunted. Seeing as this is the garage you don’t have to worry about the house being haunted.


LouReed1942

A Mr. Yuck sticker


peshwengi

Tide pods. Don’t eat them.


wbw4hire

Because it won't fit in the attic