So, having been gone for 4 weeks in July, I prepared my mini split drains by pouring a bottle of PF 2000 drain line cleaner (bought at the orange store) in the pan of each head, and adding tablets to the pan that were supposed to inhibit mold growth.
All was fine, I thought. It's been humid here and the thing has been running constantly (at 80 F when I was gone).
This morning (6 days after getting home, luckily), one was leaking. I e. Pan overflowing.
So I stopped that head.
I have before used my shop vac at the end of the drain line to suck out any debris in there. But I had later a disconnected drain line section in the channel that covers the lines on the side of the home. (Water leaking out of the line set channel)
I don't know for sure but given that the line goes from 3 ft below ground floor to the second story, it's tall and I suspect that sucking on it with the shop vac might have disconnected an already poor connection halfway up.
Still I'm going to do that again later today.
And pour another bottle of that cleaner in there.
What do you all do? Is there a better way? Better stuff?
All was fine, I thought. It's been humid here and the thing has been running constantly (at 80 F when I was gone).
This morning (6 days after getting home, luckily), one was leaking. I e. Pan overflowing.
So I stopped that head.
I have before used my shop vac at the end of the drain line to suck out any debris in there. But I had later a disconnected drain line section in the channel that covers the lines on the side of the home. (Water leaking out of the line set channel)
I don't know for sure but given that the line goes from 3 ft below ground floor to the second story, it's tall and I suspect that sucking on it with the shop vac might have disconnected an already poor connection halfway up.
Still I'm going to do that again later today.
And pour another bottle of that cleaner in there.
What do you all do? Is there a better way? Better stuff?
