How To Drain Your Shut Off Valve With Drain Port to Winterize Your House

okay so you see here this is a shutoff valve a ball valve with a port this is a shutoff valve a ball valve with a port on it so just to show this is Minnesota so this is my my pipe coming to the valve and this is actually going out to my outside spigot now the outside spigot is engineered of course inside the house but just to be safe you can always add a shutoff valve inside your house just to make sure this you know can never freeze or whatnot but the port adds a little extra part of safety just for the a sake of just in case this line ever was to freeze or get cold you'll see this many times in like town home garages your shut off your actual outside spigot if there's one there to connect a hose to it may not have the inside sill part it'll be flush so it's smart to put a shutoff valve on it but a port what you're going to do is you're going to shut the port off right so now the water is shut off so there's no more water going to my outside spigot so if that did freeze right now know the worst I would get is the water in the pipe but that's what this is for okay so I turned the outside spigot of the house on that way I have a little bit of back pressure here so it'll open up and drain some of the water out of the line so let's open it up and you can see water's starting to come out so you just got to get a bucket and you drain that so open the outside spigot shut your shut off valve off of course first open your spigot and then take off your little Port valve and let that water drain so I'm going to open this up a little bit so water starts to come out and you can see now the water from my line is now fully draining only get it all the way off it really comes out well so this is draining the line officially from my core valve going to my spigot and I would install one of these on every spigot outside in your house my house I have two outside spigots so I have two ball valve shut-offs with port all right so I drained it for a few minutes just holding a bucket underneath it you can see that way you can see the end on YouTube here so you just kind of go until the water's done draining and then your line is completely empty and no way that's going to freeze during the winter time just takes a little bit of time let that water get out I probably won't go until it's completely bone dry I mean I've got it to the point where it's at the way and it took a while because this is a long run you might have a shorter pipe you know going at a shorter distance to your outside spigot this is the length of my house all the way the other side of the house so it took a little while for it to drain but I just get that water out to be safe when you're done Pop That Nut back on secure it pretty good I never do tool just do it by hand um because it's at this point in time it's not pressurized but so that I just kind of Crank that back on again so you can get it off next year and then go shut that outside spigot back off again here's my speaker I had it open so that I could drain the line just make sure when you're done you close it again once you drain out your port and like I mentioned you might have more than one spigot in your house if you do try to get a one of these ball valve with a port on each one that's the way it works for your plumbing even just a ball valve itself is safe I mean because at least if something was ever to happen you know and your your pipe was to freeze or whatnot you're only going to lose the water between that point and your pipe you know not as terrible as it would be if you had an explosion there's nothing here and you you know you're on a trip and you've got water running all the time versus you just got it running from that point of course just an extra added safety measure to make sure no water is touching the outside so much and it's further away so get that ball valve with the ports even better keep your home safe take care everybody

Channel: David Hill

Views: 11,222

Keywords: ball valve, shut off valve, shut off vavle, valve, vavle, drain port, port, port drain, House prep, house freeze protection, house tips, plumbing tips, winterize house, winterize home, winterzie home, winterzie, winterzie house

Id: SkxG3TRgXRY

Length: 4min 8sec (248 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 01 2022