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Offline usedbustickets

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To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« on: December 15, 2014, 16:42:06 PM »
If you are leaving the Turkish house for a period. Do you turn the water off at the mains stopcock or leave it on?  Particularly in the winter months or where you have solar water heating?  What do you do, and why?



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Re: To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2014, 16:53:32 PM »
Turn it off for 2 reasons;

1.  In winter temperatures do fall well below freezing at night so if any of the outside taps/pipes to taps freeze and then burst.....
2.  Any other time because water pressures can increase significantly in surges.  Flexi pipes and connections can burst at high pressures.  I have known    people come home to water flowing out of bathrooms and kitchen cupboards beneath sinks.

I always put anti freeze in the solar panels in the winter.  Remember to drain some of the water out of the panels so that the expansion tank (the little 'tea pot' on the top of the panels) has no water in it, turn off the water supply to it first.  Then pour about 2 litres of anti freeze into the 'tea pot'.  This ensure that the anti freeze is in the panels and not sitting in the expansion tank/tea pot.  Turn the water supply back on when finished to top up the panels and expansion tank.

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Re: To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2014, 18:22:03 PM »
Anti-freezing your solar panels is a must.

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Re: To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2014, 18:47:57 PM »
Never ever done it in nearly 14 years and never had a problem. Now I'm getting the feeling I should have kept my mouth shut. Watch this space!

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Re: To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2014, 19:08:30 PM »
It depends where you live,if its up in Hisumlu, or high up the hills,yes
But wouldn't think so,in Calis area,

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Re: To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2014, 20:03:18 PM »
Hisumlu ? Where's that ?

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Re: To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2014, 20:37:54 PM »
Very near to Uzuranou on the Ovadeniz Road..... but that is not the question on this post......but nor is this

Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer
The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,
Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles,
And by opposing, end them?........

The Bard on hearing that he has to post on CBF again. ;D ;D


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Re: To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2014, 20:41:32 PM »
Waffle, waffle.......  ;)

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Re: To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« Reply #8 on: December 16, 2014, 19:04:41 PM »
After all that very good advice, my take is turn it off, simply because if you don't and you have a leaky tap somewhere you're gonna come back to a bigger bill.

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Re: To turn on or off .... that is the question!
« Reply #9 on: December 16, 2014, 20:27:55 PM »
Thanks for the comments to date.  I think I take Eric (and leeglo) advice and will turn off.  I recall a piece of advice here on CBF not so long ago that recommended that after turning off the mains, to drain down the 'highest' tap in the house so that when the water is turned back on, if there has been an increase in water pressure it will reduce the possibility of pipes being blown at turn on.




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