Large Lawn irrigation system recommendation

QuestionJames, From your past answer you clearly know the irrigation topic and products well. Can you make a recommendation for a large lawn (7200sqft front yard + 1800sqft back yard both rectangular)sprinkle

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QuestionI live in st louis mo. When my system is turned off, main water supply pipe is banging back and forth.At same time the manifold is releasing water in a pulse.This does not stop untill water supply line valve

Replacment Parts

QuestionIs there a source for replacment internal parts for an old Hardie Rain Jet 3/4 in-line valve? The top plate has broken where solinoid screws in and obviously leaks. Hate to go through dig-up and

Shallow well pumping sand

QuestionI had a shallow well jetted in last year around March. They left with a 2 PVC pipe with a PVC point at the bottom, near 28 down. I was left to install the pump, but was unable to obtain prime on

Well Not Working

QuestionWe live on the east coast of Florida and have had a severe drought for several months. We live in a subdivision with city water and all have wells for irrigation. Several weeks ago we realized our irrigation

Water well pumps

QuestionHi,I am from Kansas. I just had a well drilled. It is 70 feet deep,has a five inch casing and water level is about 14 feet down. I want to use this well to irrigate gardens,add water to the pond,and etc. Wil

water drainage

QuestionI live in Davison, Michigan and we just built a new house. We have a pond behind our house and all of the neighbors houses beside us. Our back yard slopes down to the pond. The problem i

Lake sprinkler pump constantly needs priming

QuestionI have a 2hp Welbilt pump attached to my 4 station sprinker system. The run from the pump to the lake is about 100 feet and then from the pump to the system another 5o feet. I cannot keep the pump fro

Creek Overflow

QuestionHello Mr Grote,I have an occasional problem with overflow from a creek that runs through my yard. So far I have looked into stone walls, cribs and dykes. What would you suggest that wouldnt cost a fortune? I

Help - Select pump and pressure tank

Question ------------------------- Followup To Question - House on lake with old irrigation pump house that is 5ft above water and 10ft from the lake. The highest zone will be 50ft above and 100ft away from the p

Irrigation - Hunter heads

QuestionI have a hunter irrigation system in my southern Oregon yard. I believe it was installed with PGP heads when the house was built, about 12 years ago. The system has had little care and several of the heads w

Water Hammer( I think)

QuestionMy situation is very similar to the one on your website. When my system changes zones the pipes inside cavatate really loud (copper). It can be from zone 1-2 or 2-3( I have 5 zones on city water)

no water pressure in sprinkler system

Question ------------------------- Followup To Question - Hi, I live in North Texas and I recently had one of my stations stay on past the time specified. I turned the whole system at the check valve until a repa

No pressure to sprinklers

QuestionI have a simple four zone 3/4 in-line sprinkler system. The sprinklers have been working fine until recently. There is not enough pressure to get sprinklers to pop up and water far enough out. &n

Sprinker valves submerged

QuestionWe hired a landscaper and he installed our new sprinkler valves right where the land is grated to drain. The valve box takes on a lot of water and the entire box and valves are submerged in water. Is

Number of Heads and valves

QuestionHey Jim, you are great. Sorry to bother you...again. Hopefully this is an easy one (of course they are all easy for you). For a 5,000 sqft (40x125 rectangle/flat/no slope)area how many PGP

Tempermental Irrigation System Auto Start up

QuestionRecently our irrigation system experiences sporatic loss of prime during automatic start-up in the morning. We have a Hunter 9 Zone SRC residential controller with 9 zones, Hunter rainy day switch, a QP20 2H

Loss of Prime during Automatic sprinkler system startup

QuestionRecently our irrigation system experiences sporadic loss of prime during automatic start-up in the morning. We have a Hunter 9 Zone SRC residential controller with 9 zones, Hunter rainy day switch, a QP20 2H

Water Hammer Near Backflow Device

QuestionI live in Rapid City, SD. I bought a new house last fall that came with the front lawn sprinkler system already installed. The front spinkler system that came installed with the house runs on 3 z

Toro EL-6 .. cant get it to automate

QuestionI just bought a home this last week that has a Tor EL-6+ and have followed the instructions to a tee to automate the sprinkler system. Nothing happens. I can manually run them so I know it