Preparing Your Outdoor Faucets For Winter

As winter approaches, you need to get ready for plummeting temperatures and an increase in your heating costs. Apart from the high costs of keeping your house warm, you will also be faced with additional expenses due to broken heating units and pipes that have frozen. You need to come up with ways of preventing this from happening.

When temperatures consistently go beyond the freezing mark, the water line that supplies the outside faucets may freeze and burst. This will mean you have to replace the faucets as well as the piping. This may be expensive for you. You can avoid these costs by protecting your pipes in advance. Continue reading →