Winterizing Your Home

COLUMBUS, MISS. (WCBI) People are getting ready for the holidays, but we also need to remember to get our homes prepared for the cold weather coming.

Everyone gets cold in the winter and so does your plants and pipes. There are things you can do to make sure your plants and pipes don’t freeze. Lowe’s employee, Cody Evans, explains how to keep your water running when the freezing temperatures sneak up.

“If it’s in the twenties, then you need to let your water trickle and what that does is it lets water constantly move through the pipe, and whenever you do this you want to use it in the back bedroom or the area that is furthest away from the incoming water supply.”

He also suggests that faucet protectors should be placed on outside faucets and to use pipe insulation to protect exposed pipes.
Also on the outside of your home, specialists say that protecting your plants from the frost is possible with a little help.
Nursery Specialist, Fran Herrick, says that plastic should be avoided as plant protectors during the winter.

“It gets too warm and it kills them faster because when the sun starts coming out and that moisture and all just stays in there.”

She also says that frost protection bags or covers should be placed on plants at sundown and taken off at sunrise.