How to Get Your Plumbing Ready for Winter

Taking a little time now to properly get your plumbing ready for winter can you save you a lot of money during winter.  The winter months are especially hard on plumbing.  Pipes can ze and burst, heat can be lost, and the cold weather makes your plumbing systems work harder.  Here are a few tips to get your plumbing ready for winter.

Winter Plumbing Tips:

1.  Insulate your Hot Water Heater.  Using a Hot Water Heater blanket is a great way to insulate your Hot Water Heater. Doing this will cut down on your energy consumption, leading to lower energy bills, and will extend the life of your Hot Water Heater, because it doesn’t have to work as hard.

2.  Insulate your Water Pipes.  Insulate pipes in your home’s crawl spaces and attic, even if you live in a climate where zing is uncommon. Exposed pipes are most susceptible to zing. Remember: The more insulation you use, the better protected your pipes will be.

3.  Turn off Water going to your outside Faucets, and remove hoses.  Putting an insulator on the spigot also helps.

4.  Perform Water Heater Maintenance.  Performing Water Heater Maintenance is a simple and cost effective way to extend the life of your water heater.  Having this done by a professional plumber, like Daniels Plumbing Company,  will also give our professionals the opportunity to check your system, and make sure it’s ready to survive the winter.

5.  Purge the water from your sprinkler system.  Having air blown to purge water from your sprinkler system, will prevent costly repairs due to a frozen system.

6.  Learn where your main water shutoff valve is.  This will let you empty the pipes if you are away on vacation, so you won’t come home to frozen, or busted water pipes.

Call Daniels Plumbing at (281) 351-6661 or contact us online to get a  estimate for a Daniels Plumbing professional to winterize your home, pool, or sprinkler system.