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Top Tips to Winterize Your Home

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. 
  • 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

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