They Fish While I Fix Their Mistakes

I’m having more fun with tools. Today I saw that the air conditioning system had a problem. The air handler was dripping. Every so often, the drain tube fills up with bacterial goo, and you have to blow it out. Naturally, the imbeciles who installed it made no provision for this.

I dragged my butt to Home Depot and got an inline valve, two female fittings, a T, and a hose bibb. I put the hose bibb in the drain tube, using the T to splice it in. I left the spigot facing up, so it would be convenient for attaching a hose. I put two female fittings on the inline valve and stuck it between the hose bibb and the air handler. I bought a cheap hose and spliced a second female end on it.

I connected one end of the hose to the laundry sink, I connected the other to the hose bibb, I opened the bibb valve, and I turned on the water. Then I closed the inline valve, to force the water out through the drain tube. Problem solved. Why the monkeys who installed it couldn’t have done this, I could not tell you.

I still need to put an inline valve on the other side of the bibb, so I can force water back into the air handler, because that end gets clogged, too.

The final solution is going to be a sump pump that shoots this crap out to the location of my choice. I don’t know where to send it, though. I’d like to pump it onto the roof, since there’s access to it from that room. But that would be a little weird, and I’m not sure it would be great for the roof.

There’s a hot water pipe in the little room with the air handler. If I were any kind of man, I’d splice a hose bibb onto that and leave a short hose in place at all times.

I still have other stuff to do in there, to fix the stupid mistakes the monkeys left behind.

But homeowners who do their own repairs are jerks who hate the working man. Remember that.