Keeping your pipes from the freezing cold is crucial to having your rental properties through the winter without any incidents. The last thing you would want is a rental house with a burst pipe in sub-zero temperatures. There’s nothing that will make your Pflugerville renters gloomier than a flooded, frozen rental home and damaged personal property. It will leave you disappointed with the extensive clean-up and renovations on your real estate. Heat taping and wrapping are just some of the simple ways to prevent frozen pipes.
Heat taping is like an electric blanket for your pipes. It involves an electrical heating element that is taped to a pipe. It serves as a shielding layer that covers the pipe to keep it from freezing. Wrapping a pipe can be accomplished in several ways, from plug-in heating tape to pre-formed foam tube insulation that slides on over a pipe. The kind of protection your pipes need is subject to how cold it gets where your rental property is and whether or not your pipes are the perfect fit for heat tape. Outdoor water spigots have to be protected with an insulated cover as well.
Take note of your rental home’s exposed pipes. They are just as essential to take care of like the hidden ones. Nonetheless, as a busy landlord, you might find it tough to keep a record of such duties, and you might find it inconvenient to get to the pipes in your Pflugerville home before the cold blows through. What would you do? You could try and ask your tenants to do the heat taping and wrapping themselves, but that wouldn’t be a helpful plan. Leaving pipe insulation to your tenants will leave your rental property prone to their blunders. Except if your tenants have some home maintenance background, you are better off assigning the job to the specialists.
Another way to handle this is to carry on with the heat taping and wrapping on your own. Even though insulating pipes is not such a difficult job and the supplies are available wherever you go, unless you are also aware of what you ought to do, you’re taking a risk with your investment. Pipe insulation also requires that it be checked and replaced annually, which adds another potentially time-consuming task to your to-do list.
Of course, with everything else you have to do, pipes might not make it on the to-do list as often as they should. That is why having someone handle it for you can be the best decision you ever make. Real Property Management Advisors will check and maintain the pipes in your Pflugerville rental property regularly, providing maximum protection from freezing and bursting with zero effort on your part. For more information about our property management services, contact us online or call us at 512-777-2597 today!
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