DIY sprinkler blow out?
Joe BigBlue
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can't get old sprinkler head out, can I place an extension on it?
Comments (1)If you remove it you can put a riser on the pipe to get it up higher. you should be able to spin it off with a pair of channel locks or a riser extractor. Here is a link that might be useful: do_it_your_self_site...See MoreIs blowing out the sprinkler system absolutely necessary?
Comments (3)"I'm just wondering if this is absolutely necessary...?" Yes "Last year, I recall it snowed before I had the system blown out, so the water left over in the tubes must have frozen" Not so. The mere presence of snow on the ground is no indication of how far, if at all, the frost has penetrated the ground; in fact snow insulates the ground and can inhibit frost penetration. If you do not blow out your system and there are sustained freezing temperatures, your system will freeze and break. I have repaired many sytems which were not winterized or winterized too late. $80-$100 to protect your system from being ruined/seriously damaged is VERY cheap insurance. I have heard people speak of blowing out their systems themselves, and have done it myself, with small home compressors; but this is very risky as you will not be using adequate volume of air and thus will not remove all the water in the pipe, the remaining air will pool in the low spots, freeze and break your pipe/fittings....See Moresprinkler head leaking after blow out???
Comments (5)I believe lehua13 is steering you in the right direction. To really determine if there is a leak from the head and not something else (like ground water drainage), dig down as much as needed and remove the sprinkler head (this shouldn't require much digging as the TOP should most likely be able to unscrew allowing the "guts" of the head to be serviced without digging the whole head up out of the ground and disconnecting it from the pipes). If there IS water comming up into the sprinkler head with both of ya'll systems shut down and no water meaters turning, then about the only thing that makes any sense to me is that he has a broken pipe that is somehow allowing water back-into the system after a blowout. After all, it is possible that a broken line has created a little cave underground that fills with water when he runs the irrigation system. When he then blows out the system, that little cave can still be filled with water. Then, with the system shut down, water from the little storage cave could be flowing back into the broken pipe and out the leaking head....See MoreBlowing Out Soaker Hoses
Comments (7)there is a small plastic washer in the end of most soaker hoses, some come with more than one washer. The washer will have a small hole in it to limit the volume of water going through that hose. If you have several hoses there is no problem because the pressure is split up among the hoses. You can close the valve to reduce the water volume, or , you can buy or make a washer with about a 1/8" hole in it and install between the feed hose and the soaker hose and the feed hose. A 5/8 dia. feed hose can over power a 1/2" soaker hose, especialy one that is in the sun in this heat. The dia. of the hole in the regulating washer is not too important, it just reduces volume, which reduces pressure. If you run your soaker hoses in parallel rather than in series you will get more even flow. I have a soaker hose but seldom use it because it is harder to tell the volume of water going through it, plus it is harder to adjust for different water flow in different areas. Larry...See MoreSaypoint zone 6 CT
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