Condensate drain plugged and ruined ceiling?

Question

Two weeks ago I had some plumbing done and he was up in the attic. He turned on my attic fan and insulation blew all over the place. July 4th I came home and my ceiling was dripping and stained. It turns out the drain for the condensation was plugged up with insulation. It was working fine before he was up in the attic. Did this cause the plugging of the drain? If so I want the plumbing company to repair the damage. Is this reasonable? I opened up the ceiling and the drip pan was full of insulation and I vacuumed it out but can not get the drain unplugged.

Answer 1

Go to the end of the drain line and suck out the line with a shop vac(wet-dry). That shoud do ya.

Answer 2

lf you have a wet-vac, you may be able to blow in from the outside. That might do it. lf not get a wire puller ( for chasing wires)and you might be able to hook it from the inside ( the drain pan side ) and pull it out. A drain cleaner tool is probably be too big for that size drain, Proabally a 1'' inside diamater

Answer 3

You can try and get them to pay for it, but experience tells me they probably will not. Document everything, keep the insulation you got out of the drain pan and what you get out of the drain itself. Pictures, if you took them would also be helpful. Document when they were there and when the problem occured and what they did that you think caused the problem. Then contact the owner of the plumbing company and explain all this to him in person.