Securing your pipes from the freezing cold is crucial to preparing your rental properties in order to weather the cold winter without any undesirable occurrences. Nobody wants a rental house with a burst pipe in sub-zero temperatures; it would make your Roy renters miserable upon coming home to a flooded, frozen rental home and damaged personal property is no one’s idea of a tranquil place. Plus, it will cost you thousands of dollars worth of renovations not to mention the massive cleaning that you have to do. Heat taping and wrapping are just two methods to prevent frozen pipes.
Heat taping is like an electric blanket for your pipes. It involves an electrical heating element that is bonded to a pipe. It warms the pipe to keep it from freezing. Wrapping a pipe can be completed in numerous ways, from plug-in heating tape to pre-formed foam tube insulation that slides on over a pipe. The sort of protection your pipes need will hinge on how cruel the cold shifts where your rental property is located and whether or not your pipes are the precise fit for heat tape. Outdoor water spigots should also be wrapped with an insulated cover.
Other than keeping the hidden pipes protected, you have also to secure your rental home’s exposed pipes. Nevertheless, the demands of being a landlord and your daily life could hinder you from getting to the pipes in your Roy home before the weather turns cold. What are your options then? You could be contemplating about urging your tenants to do the heat taping and wrapping on the rental home’s pipes, but does that seem like a good plan? There is no guarantee that your tenants have enough information to do a good job. It may not seem like a huge deal, but unless they have previous home maintenance experience, then odds are they’ll miss an important step at a certain point during the whole process.
Another way to approach this is to carry on with the heat taping and wrapping on your own. Even though insulating pipes is not a difficult job and that the supplies are available everywhere, unless you are aware of what you ought to do, you’re taking a risk with your investment. Pipe insulation also requires that it be checked and replaced annually, which adds another potentially time-consuming task to your to-do list.
Obviously, with everything else you have to do, pipes might not make it on the to-do list as often as they should. That is why having someone take care of it for you can be the best decision you ever make. Real Property Management Northern Utah will supervise and make sure the pipes in your Roy rental property are maintained on a regular basis, providing maximum protection from freezing and bursting with zero effort on your part. For more information about our property management services, contact us online or call us at 801-546-1770 today!
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