Advice
Draining a home left empty for a season
Draining a home left empty for a season is the one job that cannot be done after the fact.
A home standing empty is not a quieter version of a home being lived in. Nothing gets noticed, so a small failure has a whole season to become a large one.
The conditions ask what was done while it stood empty, and the answer is usually three simple things done before the door was locked.
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Worth doing
- Turn the water off at the stopcock and drain the system.
- Leave low heat on if the water stays in.
- Ask somebody to look in, and write down when they did.