When winter approaches you have to pay attention to one of the things that can affect your home very seriously – the pipes. You don’t want them to start bursting on you when the atmosphere starts getting frozen. You have to prepare them so that you don’t end up with an expensive disaster this winter. We’ll show you how to perform your own maintenance tips to keep your home in tip-top shape.
- Turn your faucets on, both on the inside and the outside. That way you can stop water from settling within the pipes and freezing up. Let your faucet drip a little, for about five drops a minute.
- Keep your cabinet doors open. That way, the warm air that’s in your home can get to the exposed pipes in your cabinets from freezing.
- Try wrapping your pipes with warm, wet towels or, try wrapping them with dry towels and then pour boiling water onto them. This will help if your pipes have already begun freezing.
- Use your hairdryer or a heat gun to blow hot air directly on the pipes so that you can warm them up if they are starting to freeze. Don’t ever use anything that produces direct flames, because you will damage your pipe itself.
- If you realize that your pipes are already frozen, then shut the water off andclose off any external water sources as well – that way, water won’t fill the whole system or the freezing process won’t continue.
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