Winterizing Checklist for Home, Winterize House Checklist Printable, Fillable PDF, Winter Home Maintenance List

A winterizing checklist for your home that walks you through getting your house ready for winter, including how to keep pipes from freezing. Comes as a fillable PDF you can check off on your phone, plus a printable letter-size checklist and a how-to guide.

Now includes a phone version: a fillable PDF with tap-to-check boxes. Download it in a web browser (not the Etsy app), then open it in your phone's Files app or Adobe Acrobat.

WHAT'S INSIDE

Page 1

"Which way?" A quick note on how to turn a valve off and on ("righty tighty, lefty loosey") and how to read a lever handle.
Outside: garden hoses, outdoor spigots and their indoor shutoffs, having the sprinkler system blown out, and the backflow preventer.
Inside: finding and tagging your main water shutoff, "exercising" your shutoff valves every 3 to 6 months, which pipes should be insulated (and which don't need it), and sealing gaps where pipes go through outside walls.
Equipment: water alarms, a yearly sump pump check, a water heater check with the 120°F setting, and the vacation setting for gas or propane water heaters.
Page 2

Cold snaps: open the sink cabinets, what to do if the heat goes out, and thawing a pipe safely (a hair dryer, never an open flame).
Gone for a while (winter trips and snowbirds): heat at 55°F or higher, shutting off the main, draining the lines, and flushing them when you get back.
A box on turning the main off and back on the right way.
A safety note on heat tape and space heaters.
WHAT YOU GET

3 PDF files: a phone-fillable version, a letter-size printable and a how-to-open guide
2 pages, US Letter (8.5 x 11 in), portrait
Instant digital download. Your files are ready on Etsy as soon as your payment goes through.
Print at home or at any print shop. Nothing physical ships.
GOOD TO KNOW

Made for US Letter paper. Printing on A4? Choose "Fit to page."
Colors can look a little different on paper than on your screen.
For personal use in your own home. Please don't resell or share the file.
This is general homeowner information in plain words. It doesn't replace a licensed plumber. Anything involving gas or electrical work, or anything you're unsure about, is a job for a pro.
WHO MADE THIS
Honest Bob Co printables are written by a working plumber, in plain beginner wording. Honest Bob Co. — For the people who fix it.