01/11/2024
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❄️ With Inclement Weather on the Way (Mobile Home Or Not) Here is some "Free" Solid Advice on ways to Prepare Your Home for Freezing Temps
🌨️ Passing this along so you can try to keep from having frozen pipes 🌨️
☃️ THE PROTOCOL IS DIFFERENT WHEN IT GETS TO SINGLE DIGIT TEMPS ☃️
🥶 We will be past dripping faucets: you need to let **both hot and cold** RUN IN A STREAM, on ALL interior faucets on exterior walls. Dripping will not cut it! If your home is on blocks, you need to do this on ALL interior faucets. Leave cabinet doors open so that warm air can get inside. We emphasize RUNNING IN A STREAM. If you have a tankless water heater, streaming that water is especially important‼️
🥶 On exterior hose bibs: fold a towel long ways, wrap *loosely* around hose bib, duct tape, then wrap a garbage bag around that, add more duct tape. You want some air inside to keep it warmer, hence the not wrapping as hard as you can‼️
🥶 If your washer and dryer is on an exterior wall in your garage or other unconditioned area, this is a point of danger. A clamp-on heat lamp directed at the valves is a good idea. Be careful that it doesn’t touch anything‼️
🥶 If your home is VACANT, we to strongly consider draining the water lines to the house. Please ask your own plumber for specific advice on this, but: turn off the water at the curb, then open all faucets to drain. Turn water heater to “vac low” (vacation low) so that it doesn’t turn on. Then LEAVE the taps and cabinets open (and re-cover your hose bibs once they’re drained)‼️