Water Leaking From Side of House

[Amorous]

If look at the pictures you will see excessive water dripping out a small pipe on the side of my house. Someone told me it can be the pan for my water heater or the A/C. Both pans in each A/C Unit I have in the atic are empty. I dont know where the water heater pans are. The Water dripping out is cold also. Check out the pictures.

[Nestor]

Well, the water is leaking out of a drain pipe, so it's intentional.

I fully expect that it's condensation off your A/C cooling coils, but I don't know enough about central air conditioners to know whether there would be more than one place that condensation would collect.

There are drain pans under your water heaters. Normally a water heater standing on a concrete basement floor won't have a big round pan under it. If you look at that big round pan closely, you should see a place where you can connect a garden hose to the pan. Those pans are there so that if the water heater is located on a finished floor or above a finished ceiling, the water that drips into those pans can be directed into a drain by the garden hose. Typically, you replace a gas fired water heater once the tank in it starts to leak, but normally the leakage will be small enough that it can be contained within that pan and carried away by the garden hose.

Maybe shine a flashlight into the round metal pans under each of those water heaters to make sure neither one of them are leaking. You might get a bit of condensation dripping down out of the water heater when it first fires up, but if you find that either water heater is leaking, it's time for a new water heater. (If not two water heaters cuz they look identical, were probably installed at the same time, are therefore the same age, and so the second one won't be far behind the first.)

[pushkins]

The water is coming from the AC unit, in the third picture you can clearly see the wet area on the far left of the pan, it will be coming from the little P trap from the unit that drops condensation into the pan and then to the exterior via the PVC pipe you can see coming out of the pan to the outside world. The Ptrap can be seen behind the insulated line the reason for the P trap is to stop little critters going back up the line and causing blockages.

[Amorous]

No Cold Air

Thank You. I went upstairs a couple of weeks ago and water was dripping from an L Pipe (see picture). Now there is not any water coming from the pipe and our vents in the house are blowing out air that is not cold.

Any Suggestions?

[HayZee518]

leaks

that pix looks like the condensate drain pan. you can tell because the discharge area contains rust or what was rusty colored water which has since evaporated leaving the stains. reason your not blowing cold air is simply the unit hasn't started its cool cycle.

[WillieJackson]

Fix Leaking Water Heater

It's possible to correct it or you might probably get in touch with a specialist to fix the actual water boiler outflow. Having said that if your seeping is the result of fragile link in one of the bolts which may be unfastened and worn out, it's possible you'll simply correct it through possibly tensing gaskets or switching the used up screws without bringing about too much expense for fixing your leak.