09/29/2026
🏖️ Shutting the place down for the season? A week away and five months away are not the same problem.
The thermostat part you probably know: leave it running warm, somewhere around 80 to 85, so it still cycles and keeps pulling moisture out. Same as any vacation.
But when it’s months…
The water heater. It's going to hold and reheat 50 gallons all fall for absolutely nobody. Most have a vacation setting, and this is exactly what it's for! 💧
The main shut-off. Know where it is, and think hard about closing it. A supply line letting go in an occupied house is a mess you catch in an hour, but in a house nobody walks into until March, it's an unfortunate renovation.
Humidity is the thread through all of it. What wrecks a beach house down here is usually not the dramatic thing but the slow thing.
Lock the door, check the water, then go enjoy not cleaning sand out of the car for a while. 🔑
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