Air Conditioners How to clean or de clog the air conditioning or heat pump condensate drain line. Inspect. APedia tolerates no conflicts of interest. We have no relationship with advertisers, products, or services discussed at this website. AC condensate drain de clog cleanout this how to article explains procedures for cleaning or de clogging a sluggish, blocked, or leaky air conditioning or heat pump condensate drain. Condensate drain cleaning and unclogging tools and methods are reviewed, including simple steps that a homeowner can take to clear a blocked condensate drain at little or no cost. Green links show where you are. Copyright 2. 01. 7 Inspect. Apedia. com, All Rights Reserved. AC or heat pump condensate drains can become clogged, leading to condensate leaks, spillage, or even bacterial hazards in a building. Clogged air conditioner condensate drain lines can form another source of air conditioner or heat pump condensate leakage that can in turn lead to hidden water damage or in some locations an indoor mold problem or bacterial contamination. Our photograph of a nearly full AC condensate overflow pan at left shows what can happen if the primary condensate air conditioner condensate drain line is clogged and worse, the condensate drain overflow pan is also itself clogged and not draining properly. Luckily we caught this attic mold and bacterial pond before it had soaked the ceilings below. We see air conditioner or heat pump condensate drain lines clogging for several reasons We like the clogged condensate drain vacuum cleaning approach better than the blow out approach if we can get this method to work because it is more gentle, reducing the risk of damaged piping, and because we minimize the risk of blowing a plug of crud downstream to a more distant location where it can form a new clog or plug in a long condensate piping run. Several air conditioning and plumbing suppliers provide easy to clean air conditioning condensate cleanout ports such as the one shown above, including the Easy Klear condensate line cleanout photo at left that is particularly useful if your condensate drain line has a long run with a slope of less than 18 per foot. This AC or heat pump condensate drain line cleanout is intended to be vacuumed using a connection to a shop vac. You should check out the Jones Valve, too, available at Supco and Watso, United Refrigeration and Johnstone, the latter two as Line Drive. Sources for AC or heat pump condensate drain blow out valves remember our warning aboveWatch out Cleaning out partly blocked, sluggish AC or heat pump condensate lines neither the vacuum method nor the blow out method will work very well for cleaning a sluggish condensate line that is not totally blocked, since you may simply move air past the blockage rather than removing it. If you encounter this problem, try hooking up your pump in the blow out configuration, then try filling the condensate line with tap water so that the pump pressure can act mechanically on the clog. Watch out connecting a blow out device or a vacuum device to a condensate drain that is connected to building plumbing drain waste or vent piping may cause some trouble. These devices should work well for condensate drains directed to the building exterior but depending on piping arrangement and eschewing for a moment the fact that DWV connections of condensate drains are not recommended without an air gap using a shop vac you may pull wastewater or even sewage back into the condensate drain. Continue reading at CONDENSATE TRAY CLEANING or select a topic from closely related articles below, or see our complete INDEX to RELATED ARTICLES below. Try the search box below or CONTACT US by email if you cannot find the answer you need at Inspect. Apedia. Reader comments May 1. Chris Nallie Courtney said Thank you This was very helpful. I was able to clean out my drain line myself. June 2. Sept 2. 5, 2. 01. Rana said Thanks so much I was able to clean out the drain myself rather than take off work to wait for the AC tech to come out. And Im happy to know more about the upkeep of my own home. June 2. Locate the serial number of your Club Car. Serial Number Location. The two letters 1 at the beginning of the serial number indicate the vehicle model.
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