We're heading up to my folks, so we'll be gone from Friday-Monday (we're in New Braunfels).
My plan is to shut the water off at the street, mostly because if something does go wrong, I don't want 3 days of leaking pipes filling my house while we're gone. I'll drain what I can from sinks/faucets and then cover all of the outside faucets, and leave some of the interior ones open.
We have an electric water heater, so easy enough to shut down, but I'm trying to figure out if I have to drain it. It is in an interior closet, so I don't expect the unit itself to be under any sort of pressure from the elements, but it seems like everyone that is talking about shutting theirs down is also talking about draining it, so I'm trying to find out if I need to also drain it (i.e. is there a problem with having water in a shut down tank??)
My plan is to shut the water off at the street, mostly because if something does go wrong, I don't want 3 days of leaking pipes filling my house while we're gone. I'll drain what I can from sinks/faucets and then cover all of the outside faucets, and leave some of the interior ones open.
We have an electric water heater, so easy enough to shut down, but I'm trying to figure out if I have to drain it. It is in an interior closet, so I don't expect the unit itself to be under any sort of pressure from the elements, but it seems like everyone that is talking about shutting theirs down is also talking about draining it, so I'm trying to find out if I need to also drain it (i.e. is there a problem with having water in a shut down tank??)