Air Conditioning - Pouring Water & Sweating Coils

My AC started pouring water last night. I have shopvaced the drain and pulled out lots of slimy stuff, poured clorox in, and still water. AC guy I called said I needed a coil replaced. Does this sound right? I just bought the huse A/C is about 2 years old on second floor in a closet. Thanks

HSMITH9

Is AC still cooling? This just sounds like a stopped up condensate line that is not draining properly. I would shopvac line several times and if not successful, call for a service call.

Good Luck!

Do you mean water is coming else where around the furnace other than the drain itself?

Are you able to see the coil and see what shape the pan is under the coil inside? if it's not rusted or cracked, make sure the pan is tilted towards the drain line.

AC still cools. The coils look a bit rusty it is an A frame. We blew out the lines with the aircompressor today and sucked again with the shop vac. Lines seem to be open, clear water runs thru when we flushed it out. Drip pan seems to be ok, just cannot hold the amt. of water running off the coils. I give up! Any suggestions? This place is great by the way!

If the unit is only 2 years old it should be under warranty. How can he say you need a new coil over the phone without even looking at it.

What size is the condensate drain line??

I have seen this problem when there has been a change in the airflow across the coil (blower set to a higher setting) the higher speed air actually captures some of the water droplets and blows them out past the edge of the drain pan and it proceeds to run wherever it merrily wants to from there. Have we made a blower speed adjustment?

Not sure what size the drain line is. No adjustments, we just moved into the house 3 weeks ago. AC man is coming Monday. My dad thinks the motor to the blower or something like that is wrong. Of course he is 800 miles away! Thanks for the follow up. I'll post after the AC man comes.

:) Just to let you know, the ac line was clogged and we finally brought the air compressor in the house and blew out the line from inside. Still had a guy come out and check it. Thanks for all your help!

Had a similar problem when my wife set a storm window on the drain line. Water everywhere!! I found the problem, removed the window, straigtened out the tube and though I was in good shape.

We had just moved in after buying the townhouse from a landlord that never looked at anything. We knew we needed a new furnace (home inspector spotted an exchanger ready to go) and were in the process of getting one. During the installation of the furnace (no AC since it was 4 years old) the technician took a couple of handfulls of muck out of the tray and cleaned everything up.

AC did cool OK b4, but now it runs much much less and and holds a 22 degree drop comfortably. The combination of the cleaning and the variable speed fan did it. This is the first variable speed I have had and am just waiting to see how weell it works at minus 30. Thanks to Jay for guidance on the fan!!

The real point is the kink in the drain was really not enough to stop the drain - it was the crud that just found someting to catch it and let it build up. I wonder how many other units have a costly buildup wasting cooling power?

Dick