[ElDiabloJoe]

Originally Posted by ctmurray

If you have someone who can come in, they can flush toilets. Neighbors often do this for free but there are people you can hire. I turn off the water to the house, so I do cover toilet and tank with saran wrap, I even tape the edges of wrap to hold it to the porcelain. This holds water for 5 months while we are gone. The house water on/off is in the garage but this leaves the irrigation on.

I purchased a thermostat that will turn on AC based upon temperature (I set mine to 80) or humidity (60%). The setting even has a name called "Florida setting". I have found that the humidity really never gets that high with the 80F temperature. But I use it anyway.

Having a neighbor to look after your house and have a key is very useful. I have a sensor in the house that measures the temp and humidity that I can see on the internet (some thermostats have this now). And they have had to come over when there were a few issues. They can let the service people into your house. Mine turned on the watering for extra time when my yard looked to be drying out too much.

I do put rubber stoppers in sinks where I can remove the sink plug, or I put box sealing tape over them. I put some mineral oil in the washing machine drain tube to keep it from drying out.

I unplug most things and use the circuit breaker to turn off electricity to the stove and laundry. I keep the refrigerator on, we leave some items in there during the away time. The fear is summer lightening damaging your stuff. The sensor I have knows when the power goes out and will alert me.

This is all great info. The names of the products you use (make/model) would be especially helpful!