I need to leak test a tank outside but it gets below freezing at night & while warm this weekend it's still winter here. Will it wreck the seals? Can it stay outside empty after testing a few days full?
Or should I wait for warmer weather? I don't want to have to carry it down to the basement again & there isn't a good way to test indoors.
Well.. how big is this tank? What kind of condition is it in? Are you reasonably comfortable that it's going to pass a leak test or doing this to find out where a leak might be?
This is probably rotten advice for me to give anyone, but I live in an apartment where there
IS no basement, no garage, and nowhere I could do this outside. I ended up having to leak-test a very large tank indoors if I was ever going to have this thing setup at all. I happen to have two large wet/dry shop vacs, if need be, and knew I could rent a blower to dry out the carpeting. Made sure everything was unplugged in surrounding rooms and then just filled it. Let it sit like that for 48 hours to make sure it would hold.
Don't know if that's an acceptable risk for you to take in your home, but it is another option.. albeit, not a very sensible one.