Hooking up a tri-fuel generator to power a house | sound dampening, stealth enclosure, exhaust

Alright, we have some kind of project here where this trash can

enclosure

and you guys want to install a

generator

inside of here, there's too much noise right now, so what we're going to try to do is get the muted bins down. it hooks up with surprise

fuel

so it runs on propane gas or natural gas which is right here and basically we're going to hook this all up and we're going to try to look dead on this and we have to route the

exhaust

to help and so some interesting things to work on so far, the client has installed this

exhaust

fan as well as a vent here to create a cross current to keep the temperature down inside here, so let's add to this that we have to go through a thimble for the exhaust and we also have to run a gas line and an electrical line through this wall.

Now this is a flexible tube and we're going to bend it to where it is. It's not too stressed, but it's also far enough away from the wall and then we'll mark where the thimble will go through. Another very small tip is that we're not really worried about water intrusion, but we want to keep it down slightly. just so it doesn't drain water into the muffler, if there's ever a water intrusion, so I just slide my marker here on the exhaust pipe, I hold it flat and all I'm going to do is lift the bubble up and touch the line . the muffler side is just going to inscribe a little mark here so that it's on the top of my exhaust.

This is just a three inch gas heater vent with a double wall tube and all we're going to do is start transferring our measurements to this and then we're going to transfer our square over this, it's going to go over the end edge of the

enclosure

and then we have a storm collar that will slide over the other side and the way I prefer to insulate them, we have an appropriately sized spring that will wrap around the exhaust when it's coiled around the exhaust. The outside diameter should not match the inside diameter of our interior wall, which will give us enough insulation.

Well, we have these three in fire resistant foam. This is basically the same thing as cool stuff, but it's fire rated, it's rated up to 250 degrees Fahrenheit, so what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead, we're going to foam all of these closures, so we don't want to. The

sound

is coming through there and it resonates off this hollow wall here and we're also going to foam shut off our gas lines and read how to drill them and then we're also going to foam around our exhaust pinball. Okay, we have a regulator here.

I have this little stand. I just did it very quickly. How does a small C channel work? I have this. It's going to go over here and we'll come back with a one inch flat stamp and fold it over. I'll take this back to my store that way I have a template. I'm going to go ahead and fold it to the outside dimensions of this because if you look at the outside dimensions it will clean this air filter if we use this it's just one inch per eight inch flat bar that I grabbed from my stack you can easily walk into Home Depot Ace or Lowe's and buy it from the small parts bin for a few dollars, well this is what I came up with, the gaps will replace this piece Just like on that job we have this piece of bent flat bar to replace the frame we had to cut .

We'll start by installing, we have a few other things to connect and okay, we're getting ready to board. the exhaust part of this

generator

is installed now, this is going to run next to the

house

, there is a small risk of getting burned as it passes, there is also the issue of noise in order to combat both problems. I'm going to use some exhaust rattles now. I don't have much experience with exhaust wraps, but I have enough to know that these things can be absolutely miserable if you let these fiberglass splinters get on your skin. There are a couple of tricks to avoid that one of them: we will use a little water, we will wear some gloves and that will make the installation much more pleasant.

We'll also use some of this Permatex muffler up pipe sealant. To seal our joints here I have a soldering iron. I could solder all of this together, but we want to consider that if it ever becomes necessary to remove this generator from this enclosure, we want it to be quick and easy. Well, we have the pipeline. Clamp here, we have a nice screw and a washer and then that just to get us away from the wall a little bit, okay, we have our natural gas hooked up here, we leak test it and prime it so it shows. all nice and original now we need to adjust our spark plug and we should be fine so this is warm to the touch work to the touch I can handle this no problem all of this is cold to the touch again this is warm to the touch but it's not going to burn you if you grab it you definitely don't want to hold on to it we have the exhaust fan coming out it has some hot air it's not hot currently we're running on natural gas I had to make a small adjustment here on the governor on the carburetor at idle and the

fuel

screw or natural gas once we found out it's working fine, this is very hot to the touch, you don't want to touch it. but the insulation behind it is warm now again, this insulation is rated 250 degrees if you can touch it, the fan is running and it rips your hair out.