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stetwood
Explorer
Feb 01, 2018

Family returns from vacation to find home flooded, frozen

A real simple lesson. Turn off your water at the source, whether a well or city water and open several faucets to allow ice expansion.Maybe add some pink stuff to toilet tanks and bowls. This may cos...
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Grit_dog
Navigator II
Feb 02, 2018
K Charles wrote:
With the water shut off the furnace auto feed won't work and it will quit running when it gets low on water. I will leave the heat on (and water) when we go away. There is a small brook in the basement when it rains hard so I am sure the water will find it's way out. If the heat is off to long the doors don't shut good, the drawers get stuck and the tables worp.

House sounds like a mess...lol.

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