Water On Floor Around Furnace
Like water you should never see ice anywhere on your system during the cooling season.
Water on floor around furnace. If you ve got an old unit your drain pan might be rusted or damaged which could mean that the water is running right through it and dripping onto the floor instead of into the drain pipe. Since the furnace uses two instead of just one it absorbs a lot of heat that the exhaust gas converts from a gas to a liquid. This is typically flown out of a pvc pipe that comes from the furnace and drains into the floor drain in your furnace room.
Your drain pan is full. Most of the time this is through a floor drain. If the water is definitely coming from the furnace it could be coming from the furnace itself or the air conditioner.
The floor drain may be clogged. When these pipes either get clogged or break you ll get leaking condensation around the base of the furnace. What should you do.
Just below the evaporator coil in your furnace or air conditioner is a drain pan that catches the condensation coming off the coil. Shove the tablets into the drain pan opening and push. Indoor water problems aren t only during the summer.
However if this tube becomes clogged or if the drain on your floor becomes it can cause water to backup and leak out of the furnace. Many of today s high efficiency furnaces produce condensate as well. Any type of blockage can cause that water to back up creating the excess pooling you see around the furnace.
Furnace leaking humidifier leaking. Sometimes the indoor coil can actually ice up. Clear the floor drain of dirt debris and obstructions regularly to help reduce backups and flooding.