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 07-06-2012, 15:54 Post: 184166
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My pan or condensate lines are clogged in my furnace.

I have to rework the way they are in now as they are fixed so that cannot suck it out with a shop vac or add any bleach etc. to the lines.. but I have plans for that.

Can you add a little bleach to the lines and or the pan to purge any growth or bloggage? Or will adding any bleach to the drip pan cause corrosion?






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 07-06-2012, 18:29 Post: 184168
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Frank this am it was really nice even a bit cool but it has gotten hotter and hotter all day long. Now at 6:30 PM about 95 degrees.

The pan is made of plastic, the cooling tubes in the evaporator are copper. Until I rework the drain pipes I have no way to just add a cap full of bleach to just the PVC drain pipes and not the pan.






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 07-09-2012, 09:50 Post: 184186
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I wound up opening the 5 x 5 inch access to the coil in the duct, which only lets you visually inspect the coil, you cannot even get your hand in there the coil is right up to the edge. I confirmed that there was standing water in the drip pan and that the coils were not freezing.

My condensate line services the humidifier and the condensate so I took the humidifier line and lowered it and stuck a short piece of 3/4 pipe with an end cap on it. I then removed the bracket attached to the furnace condensate line which allowed me to lift the pipe out of the drain hole in the floor. My house was built when it was still legal to drain through the basement floor. I then attached some short pieces to the drain end so that I could use my shop vac with this adapter


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This made a pretty tight fit, sucked out the clog, poured some more water with a bleach mix into the drip pan and sucked it out a couple of times.

Been running fine since, probably should have been doing this every year before I use the AC.






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Dennis, unless somebody botched the install ....



I have two HVAC units, both of which had a sink trap in the condensate lines that of course would always be full of water until it evaporates at the end of the season.

I reworked the lines on one of the furnaces to remove the trap last year. The clogged one still has the trap which I think is a problem, its not a sewage line after all !






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