Columbus Day to Thanksgiving
Closing day: the procedures
Closing day is the fall visit when a shore house is either kept heated or fully drained for winter, and the plumber does the parts that need a licence.
Decide heat-on or fully drained first (CD-5), then work through the rest. Your part is the shutoff and drain-down; compressed-air blowout, antifreeze in traps and draining a gas water heater are the licensed plumber's part.
Yellow Victorian house with a wraparound porch on a quiet Longport street. Photograph; licence and author on Picture credits.
Run order
CD-1Shut off and drain down
CD-2What the plumber does at winterizing
CD-3The water heater at closing
CD-4Close the outdoor shower and hose faucets
CD-5Heat on, or fully drained?
5 procedures here; 4 of 5 have at least one step that belongs to a licensed plumber or a utility, marked PRO inside the page.