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Just winterize the house. Drain water lines and appliances or fill the lines with RV antifreeze. They won't care if the house gets cold.
That really is not good for any wooden cabinets or floors .......you really should have some heat ..we set it for 50 ...wood cabinets contract and expand with temperature
That really is not good for any wooden cabinets or floors .......you really should have some heat ..we set it for 50 ...wood cabinets contract and expand with temperature
We winterized my Dad's house in West Central Wisconsin each winter for about 13 years, when he finally retired and moved up there for good. He built the house for easy winterization (drains in the supply piping, etc.), and we would set up glue traps for vermin. No damage I'm aware of, he had oak plywood cabinets he built himself, and I never saw any mold or mildew on the walls or furniture - it was a 1300 s.f. "real" house, it wasn't a cabin.
Sometimes, if we were going up for a couple of days in the wintertime, we would just haul water from my Grandpa's house for flushing toilets and washing up. He had a well, and it took a few hours to get everything drained down, it was just easier to haul five or ten gallons of water per person per day for short stays. The better insulated your home is, the closer the interior will stay at the daily or even weekly temperature average, I doubt that the (deep) basement in that house got much below freezing in the winter. My unheated garage is insulated and drywalled, and it winters with no problem.
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Thank you for the suggestion but I would assume that the house still needs to have WIFI.
They do have an auto dialer but cancelled their landline that is being encouraged even by the phone companies in rural areas due to a reduction of customers and higher maintenance costs.
They have had their furnace go out despite no power loss. Being in rural Maine, they are using propane just as I am here in Wisconsin. Now they just have to find someone that could take a drive by every so many days to check if the light is activated or not.
What good is a battery operated warning light do if there is no one there to see it?
I did mention that they now have to try and find someone that could drive by every now and then to take a look at the house and see if it is activated or not.
That really is not good for any wooden cabinets or floors .......you really should have some heat ..we set it for 50 ...
You don't have to turn the heat off, just winterize it so if there is a power outage the plumbing won't explode.
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