If you see a bunch of water near your air-conditioner, before you start canceling all of your vacation plans, it
could be something very very simple. Particularly if your air conditioner is
still blowing out cold air. Now if your air conditioner is blowing warm air or
lukewarm air, or if you're draining something other than water, you
definitely need to get a professional HVAC person in there immediately.
But if it's just water, the first thing you want to do is check your air filters.
Lift this up. This is on my air conditioner, yours of course could be a little bit
different. When you lift this out, it loosens up this whole peg right here and
or it let's the pressure off that peg and turns your conditioner air off.
Ugh!!!
Air conditioning units produce a lot of condensation, and that condensation has
to get out of your house somehow. Depending on where the unit is in your
house there can that can happen in a couple of different ways.
If you have an air conditioner that is placed such that the condensation cannot drain out through
the natural use of gravity, you might have one of these pumps. You're likely to
have one of these pumps. So the condensation comes out of this PVC pipe
here, drains into the pump, and then the pump pumps it out against gravity, out
here out to the outside of your house. This pump or the line that's going out
of your house can get clogged. And you have water dripping from all over the
place up in here all of these pipes are just dripping with water. And that's a
pretty scary sight when you walk down here and see that.
If it's the pump that gets clogged, that's easy to fix. You just take it out and
clean it. It could also be that this pump is broken, which is also a relatively
inexpensive fix and probably something you can do yourself.
Disconnecting this thing is actually really easy you just unplug it.
There you go. You pull out this pipe.
Pull out this rubber hose, I mean. And then the PVC pipe. Now you're going to have some water
spill out all over the place. AAAHHH, IT'S A MESS!
But that's how easy that is to take off. And I'm going to go clean it.
It's going to be really gross.
So as long as I am changing the air conditioning filter downstairs,
I'm going to change the one upstairs as well. And for us I have to actually climb this all the way
up to up there to change it.
Wish me luck!
Woo, it's hot up here!
There's no pump, it has a drain pan and when that fills up there's a PVC
pipe here that is connected. I'm not sure you're going to be able to see much back
there but it's connected back there and then it drains out the excess water all
the way out to the outside of the house. That drain right there.
If your air conditioner has a drain pan and there's a lot of water around it, it could also be
that your drain pan has rusted through
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