- Feb 25, 2011
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So, we have a Carrier condensing furnace and blower, original to the house (2006.) It's also the blower for the A/C in the summer. (Kind of standard forced air setup, I guess.) It's on the second floor of the house, and water is leaking down into our kitchen.
I took the covers off the furnace, mopped up what I could, and looked around with a flashlight. It appears that condensation is forming on the evaporator coils (in the "outflow" area of the furnace) and dripping down into the rest of the unit, pooling, then leaking onto the floor (the furnace was installed before the linoleum, so it's just on top of subflooring). The evaporator coils (they look more like radiators to me, with the fins) are the highest-altitude wet thing.
It's been in the 80s for a couple weeks and peaked around 100 today, so the A/C unit is working temp-wise, but house temp is 70F with ~70% Relative Humidity. (Dew point at ~60F.)
Is it possible that our RH is just too darn high? (Get dehumidifiers?) Or could this be a problem with our A/C unit? (This has never happened in the 12 years we've lived here, and the current weather is not abnormal.)
TIA
I took the covers off the furnace, mopped up what I could, and looked around with a flashlight. It appears that condensation is forming on the evaporator coils (in the "outflow" area of the furnace) and dripping down into the rest of the unit, pooling, then leaking onto the floor (the furnace was installed before the linoleum, so it's just on top of subflooring). The evaporator coils (they look more like radiators to me, with the fins) are the highest-altitude wet thing.
It's been in the 80s for a couple weeks and peaked around 100 today, so the A/C unit is working temp-wise, but house temp is 70F with ~70% Relative Humidity. (Dew point at ~60F.)
Is it possible that our RH is just too darn high? (Get dehumidifiers?) Or could this be a problem with our A/C unit? (This has never happened in the 12 years we've lived here, and the current weather is not abnormal.)
TIA