3 Simple Steps To Ensure Your Plumbing Is Ready For Winter

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If you are like many homeowners out there, you are likely taking this last bit of time before the winter and holidays begin in earnest to ensure everything around your home is prepared for the coming winter weather. There are a number of areas around your home that are particularly susceptible to the kind of damage that winter weather can cause, and one of them happens to be your plumbing. While there are a number of plumbing issues that tend to become more common during the winter months of the year, there are still things that you can do to prepare your home and ensure that you minimize the risk of your plumbing system suffering any kind of serious damage over the course of the coming months. To help you in that endeavor, our team of professionals have taken the time to put together this short list identifying just a few simple steps that you can take right now to keep your home’s plumbing protected during the quickly approaching winter season.

Prepare Your Outdoor Faucets

Your outdoor faucets are one of the most likely areas for your plumbing system to suffer damage over the coming months, and this is thanks in large part to the fact that they extend outside of your home and generally aren’t very well insulated. One of the best things you can do, if you haven’t done so already, to keep your outdoor faucets from freezing and bursting this coming winter is to remove and drain any hoses or other attachments that might be connected, and safely store them away for the winter. Ensuring that you take the time to perform this simple step can save you a great deal of headache and money in the coming months.

Fix Any Leaks Immediately

As the temperature continues to drop over the coming months, the risk of something happening to your plumbing is going to increase more and more, and if you pipes already have damaged areas that you haven’t gotten around to fixing, you might be giving the cold all of the opportunity it needs to get in and wreak havoc on your plumbing. Leaving any already damaged areas of your plumbing in place is especially dangerous during the winter as their structure has already been compromised and it is much more likely that something will go wrong if the temperatures take a particularly low dip in the coming months. Calling in a professional before the winter begins in earnest to repair any existing leaks in your system can make all the difference between a wonderful winter season and a period of time you would much rather forget existed at all.

Tune Up Your Water Heater

Your water heater is important at all times throughout the year, but even more so during the cold winter months. No one wants to get stuck taking a cold shower, but having to take an icy shower in the middle of winter is something that falls into a different realm of undesirability altogether. Taking the time to have a professional come out and ensure everything is functioning properly with your water heater can provide you with a great deal of peace of mind in the coming months that when you go to turn on the hot water for a shower at the end of the day, you aren’t going to be treated with a frigid blast of cold water you would swear came from the Bering Sea. Call the pros at Watermark Plumbing today!

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