Learn about tips on utilities care in this GeoBeats series on preparing your home before a trip.
How to Prepare Your Home Before Travel - Utilities Care Tips
In the winter months, you need to think about the frozen water pipes. If you go out of town and you have a busted water line, its gonna be thousands of dollars over the damage, it'll be a huge headache. Before you leave town, walk around the house. You don't want to have any hoses screwed in to the faucet, because what happens when the temperature dips below freezing, the water's gonna freeze up the hose into the faucet, and the crack usually happens in the foundation of the house. Then you got problems.
So, just unscrew the hose, and then go inside and turn the faucet off at the main. Lefty loosie, righty tighty, so if you leave town, take it to the right make it tight, you won't have any problems.
How to Prepare Your Home Before Travel - Utilities Care Tips
In the winter months, you need to think about the frozen water pipes. If you go out of town and you have a busted water line, its gonna be thousands of dollars over the damage, it'll be a huge headache. Before you leave town, walk around the house. You don't want to have any hoses screwed in to the faucet, because what happens when the temperature dips below freezing, the water's gonna freeze up the hose into the faucet, and the crack usually happens in the foundation of the house. Then you got problems.
So, just unscrew the hose, and then go inside and turn the faucet off at the main. Lefty loosie, righty tighty, so if you leave town, take it to the right make it tight, you won't have any problems.
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