Preparing in advance for the cooler seasons is key to being able to enjoy the season comfortably in your warm, clean, and problem free house. The following are some fall plumbing tips to make sure that is the case for you and your household.

 

 

Most Crucial Fall Plumbing Tips

With fall and the rainiest season of the year in the Lower Mainland right around the corner, you may be wondering what the necessary steps are to take to ensure that all preventative steps are taken in regard to unexpected plumbing issues. The biggest plumbing tip is to inspect your house. specifically to check your furnace, windows for cracks and holes, and roof and gutters.

The first step for our fall plumbing tips is to make sure that your house’s heating and furnace system is working properly for the colder months ahead. Servicing your furnace system once a year is essential for its maintenance and prevention of failure later in the cooler months. Taking preventative steps also ensures that you would not be left without heat during the cooler months. This is a job for professionals as furnace deals with gas and must be maintained by a professional. Call Mr. Swirl The Friendly Plumber today to have one of our friendly gas-ticketed technicians to come and service your furnace system.

The second fall plumbing tip is to check your house’s windows, doors, driveway, walkways, and stovetop. Why may you ask? For cracks and holes! You do not want any gaps, and it is essential to seal all the cracks before the cold winds of fall and winter arrive. Your house’s temperatures might drop drastically from any holes or other such in the walls and that would not be energy efficient.

Furthermore, stovetops are also essential to check as any cracks in a stovetop can also release gases that are harmful to humans and other living beings; thus, it is crucial to check your stovetops. Any corrosion or loose joints in the stovetop can also lead to release of harmful gases that can make you and your entire family sick.

It’s also critical a fall plumbing tip for you to check your roof and gutters to ensure that they are in good shape and are maintained well throughout the summer months. You can start by doing a personal inspection by going up your ladder and ensuring that there is nothing clogging your chimney, roof, and gutters.

Even leaves and other such materials can cause a clog in rainier and colder seasons coming up. The mixture of rain and what can be found in your gutters and roof can create a paste like texture that can harden over time and cause a major clog in the frozen seasons.

Checking the downspouts are the most essential fall plumbing tips aspects that you can do to ensure the drain is all the way clear on the ground, so that it does not clog and crack over time.

 

 

We highly recommend that you hire one of our professional friendly plumbers to come do these check-ups, as although it seem simple, to a non-plumber’s eye, that there may be no problems. However, to a professional plumbing expert, they can inspect to see if there are any potential aspects that needs repairs in the long run, in order to not run into potential trouble in the later months. Professionals can also check for missing and loose vents and shingles to repair and for any other molds, rust, and rotting, and general corrosions and clogs to further service and maintain your roof and gutters.

 

Some of the other fall plumbing tips you can follow yourself to prepare for the upcoming season are the following

 

Indoor Fall Plumbing Tips

• Service and drain your water heaters
• Check all your faucets and fixtures for leaks and trickling
• Inspecting our sump pump and pits to ensure its in great working condition and is clean and prevent malfunctioning.
• Make sure all the pipes are properly insulated as the colder months can cause frozen pipes

 

Outdoor Fall Plumbing Tips

• Clean your gutters first and foremost.
• Disconnect all your outdoor hoses to prevent freezing and bursting, turn off all your outdoor faucets completely, shutting off all of the valve’s interior and exterior for the faucets, and covering all the faucets outdoor with Styrofoam, or a hose bib to them prevent freezing.
• Clear debris, mud, and leaves from your downspouts to make sure the pipe drains easily through the freezing and thawing of winters.

 

 

Overall, our last and most important fall plumbing tip is to repair any leaky pipes, whether indoors or outdoors to prevent freezing and breakage in the colder months. And it is highly recommended to insulate all the pipes unheated areas such as crawlspaces, garages and uninsulated basement rooms with heat tapes or other such.