Posted by Steve Brockman | November 3rd, 2009

Time to gear-up for the cold.

1. Search all around your house for signs of infestation.  A mouse or chipmunk hole could let cold air in were it has never gone before.  Water lines could be at risk.

2. Remove your hoses from outside spigots.  Remove even if yours is “Frost Free”.  Water trapped in the hose will freeze and expand and break.  Come spring time your basement will flood while you are trying to water the Begonias.

3. Take the black hose off your sump pump discharge.  We sell hundreds of pumps in Naperville because those hoses fill and freeze and burn out the impeller on you brand new pumps.

4. Get your furnace cleaned and checked by Expert Plumbing, Heating and Electric.  $ 99.95 will get this done for you.  Mention this blog and get ten dollars off.  That’s cleaned and checked for the winter just $89.99. 

5. If you don’t know ask.  Send our experts an e-mail if you have question about winter prep.  There are no stupid questions, just stupid mistakes.

Meanwhile we are trying to squeeze all the mechanical into my addition.  Hoping to call for some inspections this week.  It is incedably stressful to be without me kids at night.

Sadly we have had three techs with deaths in there families.  If our response time has faltered it is because we have been short staffed over the last two weeks.  things should be normal by Wednesday the 4th.

P.S. Looking for a video called “Ballroom Dancing for Tough Guys”.  It’s instructional and out of New York.  If you have heard of it let me know.  I need it for a Christmas gift.