Winterize toilet while no shower connected?

[shades9323]

So I didn’t get my winterizing done before everything got frozen. Stupid mistake. Got everything thing thawed and started to pump antifreeze through. Turns out I had a small leak in my shower fixture near my toilet. Waiting on a new fixture. Do you know if it is possible to winterize the toilet/lines at this time? Or will the pressure in the lines shoot antifreeze shoot up and out of the open shower lines?

[ScottG]

Bobbo wrote:

2oldman wrote:
Blow it out.

But he will still need to block that line to get proper pressure to blow out the remaining lines.

Unless it's an enormous leak, the air will still come out everywhere.
I often have more than one faucet open when blowing it out.

[2oldman]

It's better than doing nothing.

[Bobbo]

2oldman wrote:
Blow it out.

But he will still need to block that line to get proper pressure to blow out the remaining lines.

[NanciL]

If the leak is at the shower head; then just keep the hot and cold faucets closed and you should be ok.
If it is in the faucet(s) you will not be OK.

Jack L

[2oldman]

Blow it out.

[All_I_could_aff]

If you have a helper and you open up other faucets prior to turning on the water Pump, it would be fairly easy to block off the open shower lines with a wine bottle cork or similar for a few seconds at a time, it won’t build pressure if another fixture is open.

[newman_fulltime]

1/2 inch pipe plugs plug off where the faucet is and winterize

[larry_cad]

When you pump the anti freeze into the system, I will pressurize all the water lines and yes, it will squirt out any hole in the system unless there is ice in the line blocking the flow!