Category: Condensate Pumps

Every published troubleshooting guide, buying guide and how-to in this category, newest first.

One sentence in the installation sheet settles most of this: “Pump must be level and the inlet must…

September 15, 2026 8 min

Stop comparing these on maximum head. Four of the five pumps below publish exactly 33 feet — the…

September 14, 2026 9 min

Stop comparing these pumps on gallons per hour and maximum lift. Every pump sold for a furnace moves…

September 14, 2026 10 min

Empty the pump’s tank. If the air conditioning comes back within a minute or two, a float switch…

September 9, 2026 7 min

Most mini-splits do not need one. The indoor head hangs seven to eight feet up a wall and…

September 8, 2026 7 min

No. Most furnaces ever installed produce no condensate whatsoever, so there is nothing for a pump to move.…

September 7, 2026 6 min

Straight up, somewhere between about 15 and 62 feet depending on which pump. Sideways, far enough that it…

September 6, 2026 6 min

Three different things happen, and which one you get is decided by a single wire. Either the equipment…

September 5, 2026 7 min

Measure one thing: the vertical distance from the pump outlet up to the highest point the discharge line…

September 4, 2026 9 min

Read the model number off the label before anything else. If it ends in ULS there is a…

September 3, 2026 7 min