[MatthewBrum]

So my friend want to buy this big house here in CT thats been foreclosed on. It's a new construction where a it only had tenants living in it for a little under a year.

So I go to fire up the furnace and I notice the house has no chimney. The furnace exhaust goes up about 4' from the furnace makes a 90-deg where there is a motor with a fan that sends the exhaust out of the house about 2' above outside ground level.

When I opened the furnace up I could tell it was running extremely rich and was abnormally dirty. I look at the air opening on the burner and see that it is almost completely shut-off.

So I fire the burner up and flames shoot out of the inspection cover. I cleaned the furnace and still the same thing. It seems like the fan in the exhaust can not properly exhaust the furnace and that why they were running it so rich.

Does any body have any experience with this?