Tips to winterize your home for the season

Now that it’s finally starting to get cold outside, local plumbers say now is the time to winterize your home.

A licensed plumber can professionally winterize your system. We’re told this is typically done through pumping non-toxic antifreeze down all the drains and hot and cold trunk lines.

Plumbers say if there’s any freezing that takes place, the antifreeze will fight it. Removing garden hoses from the outside spigot will prevent frozen water from getting trapped inside and bursting the pipe.

Joshua Martin, the president of Seaside Plumbing says, “There’s been tons of times where we just walk into a home and there’s water literally running out the front door. The whole home has been entirely flooded. Shut the water main off if you have to leave for any extended period of time. Call a local licensed plumber to have it winterized. You could save yourself a lot of time and hassle.”