On May 28, 1:17 pm, sylvan butler
wrote:
On Fri, 25 May 2007 23:59:01 -0400, mwlogs wrote:
When I first installed my A/C I drained it into a 5gal bucket until I could
get the materials to get to the basement floor drain. It filled the bucket
after about half a day. Of course humidity levels very, but even so, a
gallon of water a day in the wrong place is too much.

Yeah, and to make it worse, the higher the humidity the more condensate,
and the higher the humidity the more critical it is to keep any water
away from the "wrong place".

They sell condensate pumps. Easy, but not what I would call "cheap" and
I find them utterly unreliable. I cannot count the times a failed pump
has flooded my utility room in the past 10 years.

I'm currrently draining into a dry sump pit. This requires a PVC pipe
laid almost flat across about 6ft of floor. Works great. The ground
absorbs the water faster than the A.C. condenses it out. (Fill the pit
with water while the A.C. is running, the pit is empty in 30m or so.)

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My ac condensation tube runs out into a flower bed. I live in FL
where there is high humidity but there is not a great deal of water
coming out of there. It probably wouldn't cause any problem to let it
drain into the crawl space ... I never heard of one of those drains
connecting to a washer drain. Sounds like somebody messed up.