The Southern Freeze Prep Library

The Southern Freeze Prep Checklist
The complete freeze prep checklist written for Southern homes: pool equipment, outdoor tankless water heaters, backflow preventers, outdoor kitchens, and the night-of drill.

Should You Run Your Pool Pump During a Freeze? Yes. Here Is the Physics.
A pool builder settles it: run the pump during a freeze, what speed a variable speed pump needs, what to do with spa and feature pumps, and the power outage drill.

Backflow Preventer Freeze Protection
What a backflow preventer is, why it stands exposed in your yard, why it bursts first in a hard freeze, and the thirty second fix.

How to Winterize Outdoor Faucets in the South (The Right Way)
The complete outdoor faucet winterization for Southern homes: the hose rule, how covers actually work, the improvised version, and the mistake that splits pipes inside walls.

Which Faucets to Drip During a Freeze, How Much, and When Dripping Is Not Enough
Which faucets to drip during a hard freeze, hot or cold, how much flow, when to start, and the hard truth about what dripping cannot protect.

Tankless Water Heater Freeze Protection
Outdoor tankless water heaters and hard freezes: what the built in freeze protection actually covers, why it dies with the power, and the ten minute fix for the pipes below.