Serving Crestview
AC Condensate & Drain Line Leaks Crestview, 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 are the small gaps along the bottom of a Crestview brick wall for?
They are weep openings. Brick veneer stands an inch or so off the house's sheathing, and rain that soaks through the brick runs down that gap and out through the weeps. Where a flower bed, mulch or soil has been built up over them, the water has no exit, and the gap stays wet against the sheathing through the summer. Keeping the weeps uncovered lets it drain.
Why does the yard below a sloping Crestview drain field stay soggy after July storms?
Where a drain field runs across a slope, the household water does not spread evenly; most of it moves to the lowest trench. Crestview has some 2,068 homes with septic systems on record, and after a run of July storms that lowest trench fills first and can seep out of the hillside, keeping the ground below it wet and sending water toward any foundation downhill.
Should an outside wall in a Crestview house have plastic behind the drywall?
Not in this climate. Plastic sheeting behind the drywall suits a cold place, where it keeps indoor moisture out of the wall in winter. Here, for most of the year the humid air is outside, and whatever reaches the wall cavity meets the cooled back of that plastic and turns to water. It runs down the sheet and collects at the bottom plate, out of sight from the room.
The page these come from: Crestview water damage.