If you are leaving town for the holidays, professionals say dripping faucets is a bad idea. There are a few things you should do instead.
"No one wants to come home to water running out of their front door," said Mike Harris, the plumbing operations manager for Berkey's.Harris says there are some things you should do to prepare your home for the freezing temperatures.
"If you are going out of town 80% of damage is caused by water heaters. It is good to put it in what is called vacation mode before you leave town," he said."Say an attic or garage, these water pipes would be the first thing to freeze," Harris said."Just turn your cold water faucet barely to just a little more than a drip to make sure water is running through the pipes," Harris said.
Instead, Harris says you need to turn your water off to your home before you leave. Then, drain your pipes by turning on your faucets and flushing toilets before turning off the faucets again. Harris says the main shut-off is normally in a box with a green lid in a flower bed or somewhere close to the exterior walls, unless you have a home built before the mid 90s.
"Anything before that, even if you have it, you are probably not going to find it or it's not going to work," he said."Turn it clockwise. It will usually stop, if it doesn't, then there is going to be two holes as long as those two holes are lined up your water should be turned off," Harris said.Then you will hopefully return to a dry home.
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