What Happens When My HVAC System is Flooded?
What Happens When My HVAC System is Flooded? A Flooded HVAC System. It happens from time to time. A bad storm moves in and everything is flooded as in recent times with the spate of hurricanes like Harvey and Irma. Whether you evacuated or stayed the flooding did its damage to your home and now it’s time to dry out.
What happens with a flooded air conditioner? A flooded heat pump? A flooded boiler?
What do you need to do to fix things again so you can have heating and cooling? I can speak to you as an expert in HVAC and with my direct experience with surviving hurricanes and then rebuilding after the storms are long gone. So what do you do?
Of course, the first thing to do is to make sure it is safe to return to your home. It may be a good idea to call an electrician to check the electrical infrastructure in your house. Depending on how severe the house was flooded some or several of your electrical circuits may not function properly.
Breakers may be tripping and as we all know water and electricity don’t mix. It’s better to be safe than sorry to have it checked out. We already have an article on flooded boilers here. (more…)
