The current spell of severe cold weather has the potential of causing New Year misery for Chiswick householders.
By taking a few simple steps to protect plumbing and heating systems, you can avoid considerable inconvenience and damage to your house or flat in Chiswick, and to your belongings.
Following a prolonged spell of cold weather, hundreds of calls are made to plumbers, from people who have experienced flooding caused by a burst pipe.
Frozen water in pipes expands, often causing them to burst once the thaw sets in, but a few simple precautions taken now can prevent you from finding yourself up to your ankles in cold water and facing thousands of pounds worth of flood damage to your Chiswick property. Follow these simple precautions to significantly reduce the risk of burst pipes.
Plumbing Top Tips
1 Keep your property warm with the heating on low, even if you are away from home, and leave a key with someone who can check it regularly for frozen pipes.
2 Make sure any exposed pipe work or tanks especially in attics are insulated.
3 Find out where your mains stopcock is and make sure it works.
4 Dripping water increases the risk of freezing, so have any leaks at taps or valves repaired as soon as you discover them.
Source: SNIPEF (plumbing federation)
If a pipe does burst, contact your local registered plumber, or visit the Plumbing & Central Heating page on chiswickw4.com where local people leave feedback about local plumbers.
