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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YES.  10000000000%.  Unbelievable people don’t shut off their water when traveling.  Heat stays on but lower.

Our neighbor went to the beach for 3 weeks.  At some point her toilet line burst.  She came home to find tremendous amounts of water damage due to multiple days/weeks of running water in the home upstairs from the burst line.

You can only imagine the nightmare in repairs and cost required to fix it. None of it covered by insurance of course.  Always, always shut off the water and drain the lines when traveling for multiple days. [/quote]

NP. This, above.

Important tip -- shut off the water main [b]and then drain the lines[/b]. Go around the house and turn ON all the taps, kitchen, bathrooms, basement sinks too, and let the water run out of them until it stops. Draining the lines is very important because if you just shut off the water and the heat fails while you're gone or there is a bad cold snap, you can get frozen pipes even if you shut off the main water; there is always water sitting in your house's pipes when water is shut off.

Leave heat ON. You can look online for tips about what temperature to choose. But never leave a house in the winter with the heat all the way off or the water on!

Source: Four different plumbers over many years. I've always talked with plumbers when they do work here and all of them say to shut off main water when you leave. A couple even said they do it in their own homes when they are gone, even overnight, because they've witnessed some spectacularly bad damage in people's homes, from water that flowed for days or weeks while the homeowner was gone. We now switch off main water and drain lines quickly before we leave for any trip. It gives a lot of peace of mind. [/quote]

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