How hot is too hot ?

[40desoto]

On 1/5/2020 at 7:35 AM, James_Douglas said:

If you have a lawn or a tree or a shrub...just run the output of the water over that area and do the test...

I was being a bit sarcastic on my latest reply.  Thank you, Ill find a way to get rid of the water.

 

I'll post my results thereafter, Thanks for the advice

 

[James_Douglas]

Don't worry about being sarcastic...let me tell you a story...

 

In 2017 we tore down the small attached residential garage on the house we will retire to. I designed and we built as large a one as the space would allow.

 

I wanted to have a garage drain so that I could wash down the floor from time to time and to also wash a car out of the sun.

 

Turns out that the building inspector wanted a commercial oil separator system to put a floor drain the the garage. An expensive thing to do and maintain.

 

He went and made a call to another inspector in another jurisdiction, all here in Northern California, to talk about it. When he came back he told me that I could put in a floor drain as long as the drain emptied onto my front lawn and not into the sewer.

 

Now stop and think about that for a moment. I could not drain soapy water that had some floor oil in it to the sewer where it would get treated. I could however drain that same water onto the lawn, which is 4 feet from the storm drain which drains directly to a creek a 1/2 mile away that they are tying to re-establish the salmon runs on.

 

Here in San Francisco both the sewer and all the drains go to the treatment plant, including my c.1922 garage drain.

 

The idiots in this State. I can have a floor drain in new construction that will pollute the waterways, but not one which will capture it and treat it at the sewer plant!

 

When asked why, I was told that if there was a drain in the garage, that I might pour engine oil down the drain instead of taking it to be recycled. Of course in the toilet room off the back of the garage, which was part of the new construction, we could put a floor drain so the room could be washed down and the washing machine if it were to have a house fail would just go down the drain...The garage is on the other side of the door. I asked what was to stop me pouring oil down that drain? I just got a blank look from them.

 

Only in California.

 

James.

[greg g]

My brother just bought a new home. He asked for a floor drain for each bay of the two car garage.  Nope, gotta have an oil separator.  Ok, how about pitching the floor from back to front by 3 1/2 inches and putting in a trench drain just inside the door. Ok no problem!  The floor drains would connect to the sewer, the trench drain goes through a French pit which then goes to a line that goes into a retention pond in his across the street neighbors back yard.  Maybe the oil provides for mosquito control...Although here the major concern would be road salt not oil from he current model Hondas.

[YukonJack]

Just read this thread from start to finish. I would question whether ignition timing being incorrect would cause this problem or possibly an exhaust restriction or stuck heat riser. Just my 2 cents. 

[Hickory]

I'm still in on combustion gas test. I believe you may be able to borrow one but for the $50 I'd rather own one. I use them all the time at work. For the drain thing new York same deal. So I put in a drain and covered it with plywood and poured the concrete, inspector said good to go. When he left a couple whacks with a hammer and I had a drain ????

[maok]

Take @Plymouthy Adams advice.