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Sara
Lv 7

Air Conditioner has sediment or something in it...clogging the drainage line.?

I've been having a problem for a few months where water comes up through the floor tiles. I figured out it had to do with the a/c's exit pipe - but I thought when it rained it blocked the exit and caused the water to back up.

I did a few things to correct the problem and it worked for a few weeks and this morning the problem was back.

So I took the shop vac and attached it to the a/c and a bunch of what looked like mud came out. Not only that but when I was running water through the unit where no mud should ever be...crud kept coming out.

-- some background - a tornado hit my house back in feb and two trees ended up ontop of my house and in my house and I guess I thought the a/c was ok. So, how did crud get into the unit?

I flushed the pipes unit everything ran clear. Do I need to call an a/c repairman? Any help would be appreciated.

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  • Frank
    Lv 5
    5 years ago

    That could be rust as well. If it is magnetic then your indoor coil may be deteriorating at a significant rate and the muck will continue to build up more frequently clogging the drain more often. Unclogging the drain only fixes the symptom not the problem. Usually the coil is also leaking by now and it is time to replace the coil.

  • Marko
    Lv 6
    5 years ago

    Watch it for a while. It sounds like you cleaned it out pretty good if you are talking about the condensation line(s) which should terminate outdoors.

    Source(s): former ac techn
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