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Originally Posted by Laker14
OOHHH!! Good answer, and thank you for that reminder. I made the mistake a few weeks ago of putting some anchovies in the garbage, a few days before garbage night. Usually I'd freeze something like that and put it out at the last minute.
The garage started to smell like dead fish.
I corrected that issue, however there has been a mysterious lingering "dead animal" smell that I can't pinpoint. I even thought it might be a dead thing in the attic. Yesterday I pulled the stairs down, went up there expecting to find a strong smell of dead thing. Nope, smells fine.
I'll bet it's from the A/C drain.
I'll attend to that and report back.
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There is a drain pan under your HVAC unit that collects the condensation from the evaporator coil. The drain pan then empties into a plastic pipe that has a trap in it before it drains to the outside of your house. If any part of this drainage system clogs, the drain pan can start to fill up with water. But, there is also an electrical float switch in the drain pan that is supposed to trip and shut down the entire HVAC system. So, if you have a clogged condensate drain and the pan is overflowing, you most likely have a defective float switch.