Winterizing without the panic: a room-by-room pass
Winterizing feels daunting until you break it into a single walk through the house. Do it before the first freeze and the season takes care of itself.
Protect the pipes
Disconnect and drain outdoor hoses, insulate any exposed pipes in unheated spaces, and find your main water shutoff now — not at 2 a.m. with water spreading across the floor.
Seal the drafts
Re-caulk gaps around windows and doors and add weatherstripping where you feel cold air. It’s the cheapest comfort upgrade there is, and it takes an afternoon at most.
Ready the heat
Replace the furnace filter, test the system before you depend on it, and swap smoke and CO detector batteries. Log it all, and next winter you’ll start the season already knowing what’s done.
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