Home Winterization - Long Term

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Originally Posted by Lakegeezer

What about the power failure issue? We've seen plenty of week long outages over the past 10 years. What do you do when you are 1000 miles away from your house, it is 10 degrees and the power has been out for three days? You have to leave the house able to freeze, even if you are heating it to 50. Backup heat using a non-electric source might give you a few days cushion, but you'd be nervous.

Depends on where he is, I'm having trouble remembering more than a day without power in the past 15 years where I am on the lake. Personally what I would do is turn the water off when I left. With my house, I'm 1 hour and 45 minutes door to door, I have a monitoring system that I check regularly to make sure the heat is on. You can spend from $50 to thousands to do this. I would also have someone on call who can get in the house if there is an issue. It's worked well for me so far....