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stro1965
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Oct 07, 2013

Winterizing...did I forget anything?

Drained hot water tank, rinsed out by flushing with hose, left anode rod out. By passed hot water heater and ran the pink stuff through all the lines and into P traps, to include outside shower, also covered toilet seal with it. Cleaned everything, not so much as a crumb in there, fridge and freezer clean, dry and open. Cut power and pulled battery. Forgetting anything?

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  • Tanks are empty and flushed as well as I could. Low points were drained. Haven't ever done anything with the city water connection in the past, must have just been lucky to this point? Didn't do the black tank flush thing either darnit!
  • City water connection. At this point, best way to do it would be to get a short length of clear hose and fill it with pink. Then connect to city water with one end of the hose, and fresh water to other end. Crack the fresh tap and put the pink in the hose through the city water connection, shutting off the flow before the city water pushes all the pink away.

    Then you are really done.
  • Forgot once and froze and they broke. Learned my lesson. Black tank flusher and also if you have a toilet sprayer. Had to take down the undercover and replace flush unit and also forgot the toilet sprayer and found it exploded in pieces on the floor in the spring. Thought I had all the spots but forgot I added them the spring before. I always double check them now.
  • black tank wash,city water connection,washer prep hoses, drained the tanks?