I'm from Maine but I saw this in /c/all. Turning off the water is asinine. What you want to do is keep the water dripping when it's super cold at night and your pipes won't burst. This apartment complex should tell everyone to let their faucets drip, not run, drip. That will let enough flowing water move through the pipes to prevent bursting. It's weird they wouldn't do this first and then if the residents can't understand or don't follow instructions you would maybe shut off water pipes.
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Turning off the water is asinine. What you want to do is keep the water dripping when it's super cold.
Turning off the water at the main and draining the pipes will ensure there is no water in the pipes to freeze.
It's weird they wouldn't do this first and then if the residents can't understand or don't follow instructions you would maybe shut off water pipes.
How would you know if they did? Are you gonna send someone unit-to-unit, hour-by-hour, 24 hours/day to ensure everyone has their faucets dripping? Do you think the residents would appreciate this any less than having their water shut off for a few hours?
Turning off the water at the main and draining the pipes will ensure there is no water in the pipes to freeze.
Sure, if you blow it out with air and check every P-trap. Otherwise you're risking worse damage then just letting the water trickle. Turning off the water and blowing it out with compressed air is what you do if you're leaving for an extended period of time in the cold, not something you do for overnight dips.
How would you know if they did?
Well, the water leaking from their apartment would be a good sign that they didn't leave their faucets running. Charge for repairs to those that don't open their faucets and soon you won't have that problem. As to ensuring everyone leaves their faucets running, just send out a text or email or even go knock on doors and leave notes if it's an apartment complex.
Sure, if you blow it out with air and check every P-trap.
You don't need to "blow out" anything. You just need enough air in the lines for the water to expand. That's it.
Well, the water leaking from their apartment would be a good sign that they didn't leave their faucets running.
...surely you jest. Your idea is that the management should wait for the pipes to burst and property to be damaged and ONLY THEN shut off the main water supply?
Charge for repairs to those that don't open their faucets and soon you won't have that problem.
As if the tenants even have the tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars needed to make those sort of repairs?
As to ensuring everyone leaves their faucets running, just send out a text or email or even go knock on doors and leave notes if it's an apartment complex.
Yes because everyone does as they're told...