Get your home ready for winter!
Check out our top tips below.
Photo Credit: Jay Janner
- Wrap pipes with cloth or pipe sleeves.
- Drip your faucets to keep water flowing through pipes.
- Know where your water shutoff valve is and have the tool to turn it.
- Fill bathtubs with water. If the water goes out, you’ll have water to boil to use for cooking with or to use to flush a toilet. This won’t be like last year when there was snow to melt for toilets.
- Bring in any plants that are not meant for freezing temperatures or cover them with an old blanket or sheet.
- Know where a copy of your home owner’s insurance is.Â
- Get a generator ready if you have one. Do you have gasoline ready for it? Never use it inside an enclosed space!
- Seal up drafty windows and doors. Tape plastic around them or use towels to block the draft.
- Get your fireplace ready. Clear off any used ash. Know how to open the flue. Make sure nothing is within 2 feet of the fireplace and that you have your screen and tools, fire logs or logs, starters and lighter ready to go.
- Change the batteries in the smoke detector and carbon monoxide detectors. If you didn’t do it with the time change, what are you waiting for?
Resource: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/2022/02/01/weather-snow-tx-freeze-tips-prepare-car-home-supplies/9298017002/
Photo Credit: Jay Janner, Austin American Statesman