Condensate Overflow Switch: When the Drain Runs Backward

Hey guys, this is Diego with SwiftPro. We noticed that there's water on the floor in this system and that could happen because the drain is clogged like we said earlier. There's something that we can prevent that with and that is with a wet switch. Even though you can put an easy trap in there, this is just for the drain, correct?

So when the drain is clogged, that's what we use this for and this is the sensor it uses. But we like to put more safeties for water preventions in your home because it could flood over time like we said. It takes about 5 to 20 gallons depending on how often you do your system and the humidity in the home as well. So this wet switch is a great thing to use when you have water leaking on the floor that the drain doesn't catch.

And I can show you there's more damage here than we thought. There's some water around here, a little bit in the system. In this drain, we're having a lot of water. It's coming backwards this way, which is not good.

So you see all this water that is coming down, that is why we recommend to get a wet switch. And the wet switch, that's something that it can prevent it. So once this is like a hockey puck, it's also connected to the board. Once we connect it to the floor, if there's a little soft spot at the bottom and when that has or detects or gets touched by water, automatically it turns off your system.

So there's two safeties. So you got the easy trap for the drain and the wet switch for the floor. And these are just water preventions for your system to last longer and potentially not ruin your basement.