billy999
New Member
Hi guys, I could sure use some advice. Let me start from the beginning...
Last week we noticed the air conditioning couldn't keep up with the FL temps. It would run the whole day and yet the thermostat kept rising.
Our AC guy comes out and says it's algae growing on the interior fins and it needs cleaning and he recommends UV light. We go ahead with the cleaning and decline the UV light (because we're moving out next month). Everything seems great and it's running much more efficiently and not running constantly.
The next day we have a leak with the PVC drain line. I don't know if the condensate and the drain line are the same thing, but it's where it drains outside of my home after the float switch. Where the arrow is on the attached picture shows where it was leaking from. So I rang up the AC guy and he came out and replaced all of that pipe and the float with a newer float for $20.
The next day we notice it's warm in the house and that the outdoor unit is not running. We see that the float is triggered so we remove the float and shop vac the drain outside the house. We got A LOT of liquid. So we pour some bleach down and figure we're good to go. Well the line isn't clear. We keep draining the line, both from inside and outside with the shop vac. We're currently getting 2.5 cups of liquid every hour from the drain with the shop vac.
So I have a small tote underneath and a towel to hopefully catch any overflow and direct it into the tote while we sleep tonight and be able to keep the AC running.
I've put a call into the AC guy, but I'm looking for any advice you can offer in this situation. Do you think the line is still clogged? Is it normal for the system to produce 2.5 cups an hour for the drain?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Last week we noticed the air conditioning couldn't keep up with the FL temps. It would run the whole day and yet the thermostat kept rising.
Our AC guy comes out and says it's algae growing on the interior fins and it needs cleaning and he recommends UV light. We go ahead with the cleaning and decline the UV light (because we're moving out next month). Everything seems great and it's running much more efficiently and not running constantly.
The next day we have a leak with the PVC drain line. I don't know if the condensate and the drain line are the same thing, but it's where it drains outside of my home after the float switch. Where the arrow is on the attached picture shows where it was leaking from. So I rang up the AC guy and he came out and replaced all of that pipe and the float with a newer float for $20.
The next day we notice it's warm in the house and that the outdoor unit is not running. We see that the float is triggered so we remove the float and shop vac the drain outside the house. We got A LOT of liquid. So we pour some bleach down and figure we're good to go. Well the line isn't clear. We keep draining the line, both from inside and outside with the shop vac. We're currently getting 2.5 cups of liquid every hour from the drain with the shop vac.
So I have a small tote underneath and a towel to hopefully catch any overflow and direct it into the tote while we sleep tonight and be able to keep the AC running.
I've put a call into the AC guy, but I'm looking for any advice you can offer in this situation. Do you think the line is still clogged? Is it normal for the system to produce 2.5 cups an hour for the drain?
Thanks in advance for any advice!