SyntheticBlinkerFluid
SyntheticBlinkerFluid PowerDork
8/4/14 8:28 a.m.

So I just noticed that my window unit in my bedroom has specs of mold all over the vent and inside the vent. This thing ran all last summer and it didn't do this. I cleaned the filter about 2 weeks ago and it wasn't there.

This is probably why my wife's asthma has been acting up lately.

It there something I can spray in there to kill it? Or am I SOL?

Dr. Hess
Dr. Hess MegaDork
8/4/14 10:03 a.m.

Lysol spray or the private label equivalent. See if there is a drain at the evaporator, and if it is clogged. Pour some bleach in the area where the drain is.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid
SyntheticBlinkerFluid PowerDork
8/4/14 10:13 a.m.

Thanks Dr. Hess

I actually pulled it apart and used a bleach/water mixture. I was surprised how easy it was to come apart.

Now to let it dry in the sun.

Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon MegaDork
8/4/14 12:08 p.m.

Make sure it tips outward a degree or two when you put it back in, the faster it drains the less likely it'll sustain mold. Somewhere out there is a fungicide to spray on evaporator cores, too.

SyntheticBlinkerFluid
SyntheticBlinkerFluid PowerDork
8/4/14 2:22 p.m.

Oh I was going to say, this is one of those units that doesn't have a drain, it's just supposed to evaporate. Well it wasn't, so time for some drain holes.

Kenny_McCormic
Kenny_McCormic PowerDork
8/4/14 5:23 p.m.

Properly installed the condensate should drain out of the cold side very effectively and then be kicked up by the condenser fan and cooked off on the condenser.

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