| Summerize Your Florida Home
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If you are leaving Florida for the Summer or for an extended time, here are a few tips on preparing your home.
- Schedule your Pest Control company prior to leaving or spray your baseboards with bug spray.
- Pour a cup of bleach in all drains: kitchen, bathroom, sinks, showers, tubs. Then follow that with 1/4 cup mineral oil to prevent water from evaporating from the trap.
- Pour a cup of bleach in each toilet - no need to follow up with mineral oil.
- Pour a quart of water into your dishwasher to prevent the gasket from drying out.
- Turn off all breakers, EXCEPT the A/C unit, refrigerators, freezers, and your outdoor lamp post.
- Set your AC to Cool, at a temperature several degrees higher than your normal temperature setting.
- Unplug everything, except refrigerators and freezers.
- Shut off your main water valve.
- Leave a spare key with a friend or neighbor in the case of an emergency and to check home occasionally.
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