Why is the air conditioning unit leaking
Why Is My Air Conditioner Leaking Water? AC Leaking Water Inside House
be prepared for a water mess when your
why does an air conditioner leak water why does an air conditioner leak water
well there's a number of reasons first of all the drain line is plugged up
typically it's a like a vinyl hose air conditioners we install we actually put
in a PVC a 3/4 inch PVC pipe which doesn't tend to plug up like a hose does
but a hose is either plugged up with gunk or maybe it's even kinked over time
you know they'll kind of King once it plugs up it the water backs up to the
evaporator drain pan and just overflows in the furnace so you'll see a lot of
water inside the furnace on the floor around the furnace the air conditioner
is leaking water but it's on the inside and actually water outside typically is
not a problem you might see some water coming out of your air conditioner and
it's a not a concern another reason so we had clogged up drain line weighted
double check that just pull the drain line off many times you pull it off and
now it's like Niagara Falls coming out of the hole put it back on ok there's my
problem let's try not to make a mess here be prepared for a water mess but
you could have gunk in the drain pan itself let's say we take the hose off
and nothing comes out of the drain pan well now you might want to look in there
sometimes there's a bug literally a bug dead bud so so if you pull the drain
hose off and there's no water coming out wait a minute it's it's beyond where I'm
at so you need to start looking inside that drain pan could be made out of
metal some are made out of plastic that can crack or rust so you could have a
drain pan problem so if you know you've got a clear and open drain hose and
drain line and still have a problem that's very possible
supposed to be water draining from the indoor unit into a pan yes it's not
supposed to be oh I supposed to be controlled it's supposed to be very
controlled so yes you should have water at the floor drain the gunk the gunk
that's in that pipe the gunk that's in the drain pan that plugs up we can treat
that we actually have a fan treatment most air conditioner tune ups that we go
on we put a pan treatment so that dream pan that's on underneath
the evaporator think about it it's wet it's cold it's dark they can you can get
biological growth down there these are a slow-release treatment to the water
that's in that pan and it virtually eliminates these kinds of problems oh
really oh yeah I thought it was just to treat the water but it helps in other
ways yes it cleans up the drain pan cleans out the drain hoses so they don't
clear and it will help them to not clog right how often would you recommend
replacing annually every year they give themself up they're a slow release
material but they literally turn part as a rock once they have depleted
themselves that they work extremely well it's similar to another problem we've
talked about ISTEP you could have a malfunctioning air conditioner that has
ISTEP and it can cause water to be all over the floor sometimes people aren't
aware of that they're not really equating the air conditioners not
cooling but I've also got water running on my floor well if you've got a
malfunctioning air conditioner that has ISTEP many times that's associated also
with water leaking on the floor yeah
