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Residential Sprinkler System/Water Draining Problem

QuestionHi Jeff! HELP! I live in Marysville Michigan. My house is 9 years old. It is on CLAY- -Marysville is notorious for being on clay and having a high water table (We are 1/2 mile from ST. Clai

Compressor required for Winterizing Irregation system

QuestionHi James, I installed my irregation system this past summer and Im now ready to winterize it. My concern is how big of an air compressor I will need to buy in order to blow out the zones. I have 5 zones, ran

Irrigation Help

QuestionI installed a small system in my yard. 4 valves and a lot of sprinklers. The water pressure is 35 psi but I have really poor coverage. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks AnswerHi Joe, I would love to help

pressure switch and gauge installation

Questionthis concerns my lawn sprinkler ststem. does it matter if I install the pressure switch and gauge between the well and pump, or after the pressureized tank, in the line to the sprinklers? AnswerBen,

Winterizing an unfamiliar system

QuestionHi. Hope you can help me. I moved in to a house that has an irrigation system but no records or contacts for the installer. I need to winterize it but have no idea 1) where to locate the ri

Irrigation Zone Pressure (Lack Of)

QuestionMr. Grote, One of my zones has no pressure. It appears it is coming from the valve. I capped all the heads on that zone leaving two open. I took a water hose turned it on and placed it at

Lost prime from lake to pump head

QuestionI am working on a lake fed system that was working fine we cleaned out the vuflow shut it down went to get parts and thats when we noticed we had lost the prime. This is a homeowner built system and we  

control valve stuck on

QuestionJeff, Our community has a 20 year old Rain Bird system utilizing solenoid controlled control valves. We have 24 zones with 2-3 control valves to each zone. One control valve was manually activated by turnin

short retaining wall

Questionhi William, On a seperate issue, im trying to prevent my crazy neighbors vines from running across my yard. So im thinking about getting some pre-formed decorative rataining wall blocks from Home Depo

Sprinkler system, issues

QuestionOur laundry room is off our detached garage. We recently had work done on the water line that leads to the garage. Our sprinkler system runs off the garage line. Ever since the work, things have been weird w

Sprinkler head dry

QuestionI have 5 working stages on my sprinkler system. One system however doe not work. I have taken out the sprinkler head and can see there is no water coming to it. I have two of these dry sprinklers in my one s

dry well

QuestionHI, I have a shallow well (13). Usually the water gets low in the fall and sometimes we have none for a couple of days, when the fall rain comes we have allways been good till spring. This year (

Follow Up to 9/29 Question-Residential Water Draining Problem in Marysville Michigan.

QuestionJeff, Thanks for answering my question on 9/29/06. Sorry you were feeling under the weather- -I stopped checking for an answer after a couple weeks- -thought maybe I sent it wrong. Hey...I got yo

loud bang from sprinklers

QuestionI recently bought a new house. It has sprinklers in the back yard. Everytime the sprinklers are shutting off, a loud bang (almost like an earthquake jolt) is heard and felt inside of our living room. No bang

Pressure Switch Adjustment

QuestionI have a Meyers HJ100S pump with a pressure switch pumping my irrigation system. There is a pressure guage and tank on top of the pump. There are two adjustment screws on the side of the pump. A

PVC Pipe

QuestionI need to bond some type of 1/4 nipple into the side of an 1-1/2 and 3/4 PVC Elbow and would like to know if there is some particular brand of epoxy, glue etc that will stick to the PVC. The original nipples

Adjusting sprinkler heads?

QuestionHow to adjust the sprinkler heads on systems and which to use? Answer Cal, First, let me apoligize for taking so long to answer you. I have been deathly sick with the flu and then came Christmas. I hope I

water leak, sprinkler system

QuestionHOA Condominium water bills for Oct/Nov excessively high. Water Utility Company records show sprinkler use last year/this year is nearly the same. Water utility came out and read meter for unusual water flow

Solar Irrigation System

QuestionI have a RainBird 24-volt ISM-9 Time/Controller and I want to know what I need to run it and how to hook it up. (25.5 vac in and 25.5 Vac out to valves) I am a retired pipefitter, installed regular irrigat

Roof water runoff/no gutters

QuestionI live in NW Arkansas in a 10 year-old house on 1/3 acre with no gutters. I purchased the house six months ago. When it rains the water is pooling on the eastern side of the yard, about 12 feet from t

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