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stetwood
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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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Farmboy666
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Feb 02, 2018
DutchmenSport wrote:
Standard practice for us when leaving for any activity where we are gone more than a day, shut the water pump off. At most, if something broke, it would only run until the water pressure ran out of the lines.

However, for the last 4 years, we've had my son living with us, with his (now almost 5 year old) son. So, the house is occupied 24x7x365 now. (hoping someday he'll finally move out again!)

Answer to that is shut supply off and drain the pressure then "at most" doesn't happen.

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