Water spilled down floor air vent problem.
Water down floor vent.
It was a significant amount of water.
Just to be sure you might want to check on the floor below under where the vent goes and see if water is running out on anything you care about air ducts aren t exactly water tight.
The bathroom is fairly small and the water was standing at maybe 2 3.
The vent often will take a rt angle turn right beneath the floor so you might try pulling the register cover off and see if you can sog up some of it with a.
A few days ago i heard a bubbling noise coming from one of the floor heating vents.
The sink in my apartment is clogged so my fiance loosened the pipe and put a bucket under it to catch water.
2 days ago my bathroom flooded the washing machine drainage backflowed through the toilet shower.
I noticed this evening when i returned from work that there was no air coming out of that vent.
You can also feed the hose down into the vent pipe as you would a plumber s snake to dislodge a clog that s not solid enough to dam water.
This is the purpose of a venting system.
The clog was dealt with but i now realize that a large portion of the water probably drained into the floor vent in the bathroom.
And third in extreme cases it can cause instability in the foundation and concrete floor slabs.
The best way to clear a frozen vent is by pouring really hot water into the vent pipe.
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We pumped out water for two hours but the vents filled back up.
What is the best way to fix this situation.
I m assuming that the heater is in the basement.
If it is only in one vent you need to first eliminate the possibility of an interior source such as over watering a house plant a leaking aquarium or.
My washing machine flooded the laundry room and water drained down the heat ac floor vent.
If the drain lines in your home have poor venting as in figure a for example water rushing down the drains will pull water from nearby p traps.
Ac heat smell carpet user name.
The home was built thirty years ago and we are the fourth owners.
The same holds true for plumbing vent pipe.
One vent has completely corroded on the bottom then and the ground water seeps in and fills that whole section of vents.
If you see water in any vent you should examine all of the other boots and ducts for water.
The heat is on it wasn t a huge amount of water.
I looked inside the vent and there was standing water.
I forgot to dump the bucket some water overflowed and went down the vent in the floor in front of the sink.
Blockages caused by frozen plumbing vents can be a problem for homes located in extremely cold climates.
But can the water damage anything in the vent or the heater.
