Serving Coleman
AC Condensate & Drain Line Leaks Coleman, FL
An air conditioner makes water every day it runs. When its drain clogs or its pan cracks, that water goes into the ceiling or the slab. The system is switched off to stop the water, and the ceiling, closet and floor below the air handler are opened where the overflow reached. A slow overflow can run for weeks before a stain shows.
Switch off the air handler if it is dripping
Often needed alongside
- Humidity & Moisture Drying
When the outdoor air is wetter than the building, opening windows adds water. Drying means a closed building and conditioned air.
- Slab Leak Water Damage
A line leaking under a concrete floor spreads through the slab before it shows. Lifting flooring or a warm patch is often the first sign.
Frequently asked questions
What softens the floor at the water heater closet of an older Coleman manufactured home?
Where the water heater stands in an interior closet directly on the floor decking, with no pan beneath it, a tank that has begun to seep at its base wets the wood a little every day. In humid summer air the decking never dries between drips, so it swells and softens around the tank. A pan with a drain line carried outdoors keeps that water off the floor.
Does wooden skirting keep the space under a Coleman manufactured home wetter?
It can. Manufactured homes are common in Coleman, and some older ones are skirted with plywood or wood lattice instead of vinyl. Wood takes up each August storm and holds it, so the skirting stays wet at the edge of the space under the floor, and the air beneath the home, where the cooled ducts run, stays damp with it. Panels that stay dark long after the rain are holding water.
Why does a drain field in the low corner of a Coleman lot fill so fast?
Coleman has 287 homes with septic systems on record. Where a field was laid in the lowest corner of a small lot, the rain falling on the yard above runs down to it, so in August the field takes that runoff as well as the rain on it, and has little room left for the household's water. A shallow swale that turns the yard's runoff around the field helps.
Each answer ties back to the Coleman overview.