Helping my Dad Dig Out a Valve Box 

Nice job! Beautiful trenching work. It’s always a pleasure to see people taking pride in workmanship. Of course I have a couple of nitpicks though! Instead of splicing the wire, why not run a new wire completely? And while you’re at it, run it in a conduit so it can be easily pulled through and replaced the day you need to add a valve, or run a network cable for home automation etc?? Compared to all the work you did this would have been a small addition. But if you want to just splice it on, that’s fine, and I like the access service hatch too, but you should have used an IP67 enclosure with a terminal block or connectors. They’re about $3. You could have used an automatic drain so you don’t need to do anything to winterize it, but then maybe the manual drain you installed is a more robust solution. My biggest gripe though is, “I know where everything’s at for the future…”. The best thing to do with that knowledge is to DOCUMENT it copiously, so it doesn’t disappear the day you do - or even the day you forget. It’s so easy to take pictures today - print them out and put them in a folder with measurements, calculations, parts lists and notes. The next person to have to work on it (and it will very likely be yourself) will be eternally grateful.

Thanks Jimmy

I can't believe they put the valve box and components in the yard and not closer to the house. I made a diagram for all my heads and valve boxes.

You didn’t show when you guys removed the green box. That was the part I wanted to know how to do.

Very helpful, thanks! I have essentially the same problem, planning on something similar to this setup now.

Hard to hear the speaking and then the music is incredibly loud so have to turn it down. Good video. Would have been better if the sound was normalized better

We were just told that two of our valve boxes are directly under a tree! I like the tree, so how much does it usually cost to reroute the valve box like you did here?

Where is your back-flow preventer located? I don’t think the installer of our system put in a shutoff valve. For sure there is no drain valve.

Do completely submerged sprinkler valves still work and function properly?

"Super Goofy"...!!!....Man, you ain't kidding! It is why I watch this video! Seems like it was Beavis and Butthead who worked on things in my house! Next house (I'm) building!!! Thank You!

Nice video but the volume screaming was too much to see the end.