A pipe that freezes in an empty house can run for weeks before anyone sees it. Draining it costs a fraction of the spring repair.
His own site put it plainly: winterizing is how you avoid extensive damage and expensive repairs in the spring, along with the stress of reconstruction and mold remediation. The work is draining the water out of everything that can hold it, so there is nothing left in the lines to freeze while the house is closed up.
- Homes and businesses that close for the season
- The heating system, the water heater and the fixtures, all drained
- NJ Master Plumber Lic. #7471, bonded and insured
Frank works out of Waretown and covers 15 Ocean County towns, among them Barnegat, Long Beach Township and Waretown. See all the towns he covers.
If you want Frank to look at yours, call him at (732) 269-7978 or send the job over.
Everything that can hold water comes out before the freeze.
The hot and cold lines
The water is shut off and the hot and cold distribution is drained, so the supply lines through the house are empty.
The heat and the water heater
The heating system and the boiler are drained, along with the water heater, which holds the most water of anything in the house.
Traps, fixtures and the dock
The fixture traps are taken care of, and at a bayfront house the dock lines are drained too.
Call (732) 269-7978 and describe the job to get a price for it. Call (732) 269-7978 or send the details online.
Winterizing questions
Each answer links to the source it was read from: the state code, a federal energy page, a township page or his own site.
What gets drained when a shore house is winterized?
Haskell's own winterizing page names the heating system, the boiler, the hot and cold distribution, the water heater and the fixture traps, and at a bayfront house the dock lines as well. The point is that nothing in the house is left holding water that can freeze while it sits empty.
Haskell's own site, archivedWhat can happen if I do not winterize an empty house?
A freeze in a closed house can split a pipe that then runs until somebody walks in, and his site names what follows: extensive damage and expensive repairs in the spring, and the stress of reconstruction and mold remediation. Winterizing is the cheap side of that trade.
Haskell's own site, archivedWhat happens to the water meter when an LBI house is winterized?
Long Beach Township's own guidelines say that if the meter comes out, the antenna stays plugged in and the meter goes inside the house, or its inlet and outlet get covered if it has to stay in a crawl space, because sand and flooding can ruin it. Non-toxic antifreeze can go in the meter, and in the spring you run water through it to check it spins.
Long Beach Township guidelines (Word file)