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Boris[_2_]

trader_4 wrote in
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On Thursday, October 20, 2016 at 12:49:47 PM UTC-4, Boris wrote:
(Scott Lurndal) wrote in
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Boris writes:
Hi,

The home is in the Sacramento, CA area. It sometimes gets down to
28-30 degrees F in the winter months.

Generally only for a couple of hours before it warms back up. It's
probably not enough to worry about, although the black foam is
probably your best bet.

You're probably right. The home was my dad's, and I don't remember
him ever wraping pipe in the 30 years he owned the home. He passed
away three years ago, and now I have the home.

My concern is that because it's not my primary home, and I live about
2 hours away and only go up there once a month or so, if there were a
pipe burst, I wouldn't know, and a neighbor may not see it, depending
on where the burst was.

Whenever I'm away for an extended period, I shut off the main water
valve as a precaution. If you have a hot water heater and no
expansion tank, leave a faucet open.

Yeah, you're right about all of that. I do have an expansion tank on
the water heater..I had to install a new water heater in May, and an
expansion tank was a local requirement. Anyway, there's also a pool,
and the water has to be kept on to keep the filter going during the
year.