The A/C drain in my house decided to clog up without me noticing it. My house has a "conventional" foundation with crawlspace, and the A/C was not original to the house. As a result underneath the A/C is just the hardwood floor from when the location of the A/C was a closet.

There is a good bit of visible damage. You can see mineral deposits from where the water drained out of the squirrel cage (brand new furnace, so know its from this). The trim board on the floor is moldy. The hardwood floor buckled to the point where there are two mounds. One mound is about 4" high. Inbetween the two mounds is about a 2" depression, which, when I discovered the leak, was full of water and had mold floating around in the water.

Looking back I saw signs of it for about a month or so ago... (noticed where it drains on the outside was not as wet as normal). Where it drains on the outside has this nasty slime stuff that was not there when the cooling season began. I took a shop vac to the drain hose this morning and I think the blockage is cleared, but have the A/C turned off today to let everything dry out so I have a nice baseline to compare things to.

It gets better... the floor area that has this damage is about two feet from the toilet. In the past the subfloor was damaged from the toilet and there are currently about 4-5 stilts supporting that area of the floor in the crawlspace. They added additional bracing in addition to the stilts. When the home was purchased the home inspector assured me that it was a good repair, which it did appear to be.

So the actual question.... how much damage did I cause? I am a college student and as such don't have much money and my time is cheap.... is this something I can fix myself?

I'll post pics of the floor, the crawlspace (seeing the damage down there will sure be interesting ), etc later on tonight when I get off work.

Thanks for any help!!!

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John Robbins
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