I had to pause the vid to say “a wet/dry vac is handy in this situation. Suck the water away and even any debris that fell into the line. Or dig a bigger diameter hole” great info so far!
Woke up this morning to have a cup of coffee on my back deck and saw a hole filled with water in a dirt patch where I’ve been trying to reseed. Wondered what was up with that and discovered a buried sprinkler head. Quick Google search and I found this video. Now I know what I’ll be doing today and hopefully with a level sprinkler head can get some grass there this summer!
At 10:10 you could've just put the nozzle back on with the water running so we could have some fun, lol. You could've mentioned that the riser may need to be FPT to MPT (as in this case) or MPT to MPT, depending on the installation method used. The system I installed 30 years ago was using 3/4 inch PVC pipe with 3/4 x 3/4 x 1/2 FPT tees, so the risers threaded directly into FPT of the tees. I wasn't aware of installations utilizing swing pipe in the early 90's.
Perfect! Great close up shots, easy step by step instructions with pictures. So well spoken a senior can understand what the next step is, without having to rewind over and over! Thank you so much this was exactly the thing I'm trying to accomplish. Cross your fingers!
Very good video. Only thing I would add is to wet the area around the head and let it sit a few minutes before unscrewimg the old head. Then sediment wont fall down in the hole and it will stay like a tube.
Thank you! I have a sprinkler head that is overgrown like this and just floods a area from underneath the ground. I guess I'll dig it up and do what you did.
Nice! I’m helping a neighbor with their system that was installed many years ago and has been offline for the past few years (electrical issue). There’s one particular valve that when turned on, nothing happens. I figured a line blockage or buried heads. No maps or anything to aid in locating the sprinklers except the guess of where they believe the heads are.
I'd suggest checking that there is power to the valve with a multimeter. You can also try to manually override that valve. Start there and see if one of those is your issue. Good luck!
I have an old copper irrigation system. what's the best and easiest way to rise the heads to the current grass level? The current heads don't even seem to be solder on the pipe.
I tried to find a cut-off riser extension just like you showed in the video. I need 1/2" NPT, and the only size with a female on one end and male on the other is 2.5" long. They have a 4" with 3/4" NPT, but not with 1/2" NPT. I also could find gobs of different lengths with 1/2" NPT with male at both ends. It seems that most sprinkler bodies have a female end that screws into male swing joint elbow. So I would think that there would be TONS of different lengths of both 1/2" NPT and 3/4" NPT riser extensions with female and male ends. Am I missing something?
I showed 2 types of risers... The cutoff type might only be available at irrigation supply, but some big box home stores might have them too. Fixed size ones are common everywhere.
Well, duh. They’re linear & evenly spaced. How about locating one on a sprinkler system that was installed around very large existing trees & nonlinear. Then what?
Not likely because there's not enough water pressure, but you may get an underground puddle. Sometimes I've even seen sod bubbles! Normally it will cause an over saturated soft spot in that area of the lawn.
I have an old copper irrigation system. what's the best and easiest way to rise the heads to the current grass level? The current heads don't even seem to be solder on the pipe.
