{"id":605,"date":"2020-12-03T17:54:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T22:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2020-12-03T17:54:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T22:54:39","slug":"dont-forget-to-winterize-your-hose-bibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/03\/dont-forget-to-winterize-your-hose-bibs\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Forget to Winterize Your Hose Bibs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hose-bib-656x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-606\" width=\"207\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hose-bib-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hose-bib-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/hose-bib.jpg 662w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t Forget to Winterize Your Hose Bibs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This afternoon, I met a plumber at a listing of mine to figure out why the interior hose bib was not working properly.  No matter how long the seller and I turned the shut off right to close it up, it wouldn&#8217;t work.  Water was still coming out of the hose bib in front. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, the plumber diagnosed that a prior year of the hose bib pipe freezing had damaged the interior shut off.  It was over $300 to get it fixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you winterize your hose bibs, turn your interior shut off valve  to the off position.  Either twist it all the way right if it&#8217;s a circular valve, or if a lever, turn it until it is perpendicular to the pipe.  That&#8217;s not it though.  You have to OPEN the exterior hose bib.  That means turning the ciruclar knob left.  That way, no water can get trapped inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.  If you haven&#8217;t winterized your Northern Virginia hose bibs by now, do it by the end of the day today.  Temperatures are plunging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t Forget to Winterize Your Hose Bibs This afternoon, I met a plumber at a listing of mine to figure out why the interior hose bib was not working properly. No matter how long the seller and I turned the shut off right to close it up, it wouldn&#8217;t work. Water was still coming out <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/03\/dont-forget-to-winterize-your-hose-bibs\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[123,124],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-maintenance","tag-how-to-shut-off-your-hose-bibs","tag-winterizing-hose-bibs-in-northern-va"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisanncleland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}