There SHOULD be a drain pipe coming from the pan, to some where like a
drain, or out of the house. Go back and look for it. Sometimes you can blow
the dirt out of the drain pipe with compressed air. Or as Stretch suggests,
vacuum the lin eout with a wet vac.

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Christopher A. Young
Do good work.
It's longer in the short run
but shorter in the long run.
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"QuangoJango" wrote in message
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Hi Folks,

I wonder is anybody can help with this problem a friend of mine in
Florida has?

She has a GrandAire GB3BM-042K-B-10A air conditioning unit in her garage.
One day, a few weeks ago, when she got home from work her garage floor
was flooded with water from the unit.

She called the A/C guy who tinkered with the system, told her it was a
crap system, said the coils where rusting, charged her quite a few
dollars and went away.

Whilst I was on vacation there, she asked me to have a look at it but I
have to admit that A/C is new to me as I live in quite a cool climate.
When I took the cover off, I could see smallish brown pipes (the coils?).
The brown appeared to be a protective coating of paint or plastic and
these did not look rusted to me. Under the pipes was a tray, with turned
up sides, that had about an inch and a half of water in it. She told me
that she has to keep emptying this on a daily basis. Part of the unit's
metal body protrudes into the tray and this has become rusty, probably by
the water rising to that level on occasions.

I am assuming that this tray is a drip tray to catch condensating (sp?)
water off the coils. Should the drip tray have some sort of a drain from
it or would the water be expected to evaporate naturally into the air? Is
this amount of water, or condensation, normal?

I don't know if she has big time problems or if the A/C guy was trying to
get a new A/C unit sale out of her.

I have tried to find details of this unit with an internet search but to
no avail.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated

QJ