On May 9, 7:34*pm, aemeijers wrote:
On 5/9/2011 5:25 PM, hr(bob) wrote:





On May 9, 3:30 pm,
wrote:
Does anyone know if there is a pan made to fit under a typical HVAC
condensate pump?
I have a condensate pump in the basement for the furnace and AC that
pumps the
water outside. *I'd like to put a pan that's maybe 16 x 8 or so under
the pump. *I'd
then have the secondary drain (overflow) from the AC coil and the
furnace going into
the pan as well. *The pan should have a fitting so I can hook up a
hose and go from
there to the french drain. *That way if the pump fails or the primary
lines clog, the
water would go to the french drain instead of the basement floor.
I'd also put one
* of the small battery water alarms in the pan.

I can find big ones made to go under entire furnaces for attics, etc,
but nothing
small enough for just the condensate pump itself.

Go to your local hardware store and look around. *There are all sorts
of dish washing containers, and zillions of other things packed in
plastic that can be used for your 8 x 16" pan.

Sam's club has the gray plastic bus-boy boxes that would be perfect for
this. I think a 2-pack is about 12 bucks. I keep 2 in the back of my van
to hold grocery bags, and the local airport uses them (and the non-skid
dogfood bowls) for the x-ray machines. Nothing like adaptive
repurposing. The gray plastic is also easy machinable, if you want to
add a drain line.

Dumb question- if you have a french drain (and presumably a sump pit it
leads to), why are you using a pump? Back in the stone age, we put the
sump pit 6 feet from the furnace and WH, and just ran the drain pipes
across the floor.

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Yeah, if the sump pit was near the furnace, that would be my first
choice, but
it's far across the basement. And there is no sump pump because my
basement has been dry. From what I understand, the code guys are
OK with it being routed to a sump pit, but not into a french drain
with
no sump pump. Plus, I'm not sure about running that water into the
french drain for two reasons:

1 - While most of it's going into the ground, it probably adds some to
the basement moisture.

2 - The condensate from the furnace is acidic and I wonder if it could
damage footings, etc over time.

I found an old aluminum cake pan that is the right size. I just have
to
figure out how to attach a barbed fitting for a hose. Probably just
epoxy it in? It's not super critical that it be 100% leak proof. As
far
as code goes, I could just end the secondary overflow drain right
on the basement floor.