Sarasota Irrigation Systems

Sarasota Irrigation Systems

Sarasota irrigation systems, why think about it? The dry season is on us in South west Florida. The rain will leave, the snow birds will arrive and look at the lawns that they haven’t seen for four or five months and go ” Man, this yard is dry!” Yep, that is the weather pattern here. Although we have had drought issues here in Sarasota for a few years, historically, now is the time to water your lawn.

So after being gone for awhile, Sarasota irrigation systemscould probably benefit from a “tune up.”

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Here is a quick run down of what to look for, or if you would rather play golf, just call some Sarasota irrigation contractors for a quote. Fore!

1. Check the days/hours on your sprinkler timer, they may be off time.

2. Run through the sprinkler zones and look for low pressure. Low pressure could be a broken sprinkler head, pipe or possibly a weeping valve.

3. Make sure that the coverage of water is not being obstructed by vegetation. Raise or move the lawn sprinklers as necessary to improve the Sarasota irrigation systems  uniformity of distribution.

Although a hassle, it is not nearly as bad (or as expensive) as having to replace your St. Augustine grass do to lack of attention to your lawn irrigation. Follow these quick tips to make sure that we are not wasting water due to faulty Sarasota irrigation systems.

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Sarasota Sprinkler Repair Company

Sarasota Sprinkler Repair Company

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Why would you need to call a Sarasota sprinkler repair company? Lawn sprinkler repair may seem easy at first. I mean who can’t change an irrigation head, right?
Well, it can get more complicated than you think very quickly. Can you remove the head without getting dirt in the open PVC pipe? Dig a larger hole than you think is necessary. If it is a spray head that you are replacing, and does it need raising? If so, is it on a swing joint? If not, what length of mipt x fipt fitting do you need? Or would a poly nipple or marlex street el be better?
More questions. Is the spray nozzle that exists the best choice for that area? Variable arc or fixed? 15 Half or a 15 x 30 side strip? Maybe a 9 x 17 side strip would be better. Do you know how to evaluate these choices? As you can see, calling a Sarasota sprinkler repair company has its advantages, i.e., you can be golfing instead of tearing your hair out trying to fix this.
Let’s move on to rotor heads. Every brand and model adjusts differently, and all brands have different distribution rates. These can adjusted by choosing the correct nozzle size, so get out your GPM charts for the Hunter, Rainbird and Toro rotors. Each nozzle’s distribution rate varies by the size of the area covered, and needs to correspond with adjacent rotors. Meaning if a #7 Hunter nozzle is covering a 180 degree sweep, an adjacent 360 degree rotor needs a #9 nozzle to apply the same GPM over its area. This also means that the pipe size to the 360 degree rotor needs to be large enough to handle the double GPM of the #9 nozzle so as to not lose pressure due to velocity friction. A Sarasota sprinkler repair company will have the answers to these problems and be able to “fine tune” your irrigation system for proper performance.

More reasons to call a Sarasota sprinkler repair company

Does your sprinkler system not come on at all, or does only one area (zone) not work? There could be many reasons for these problems, or a combination of reasons. Sarasota irrigation services can help you out with this.
If nothing comes on it could be the water source. If on a city system this could be the backflow, a separate meter or isolation valve. If your irrigation system is on a well it could be the pump, the pump start, faulty wire connections or other issues. This is only if the water source is determined to be the problem. The problem could lie with the controller or the common wire in the field. If it is a field wire problem you will need a $700.00 wire tracker to even begin isolating the problem. Wouldn’t you rather go fishing and leave this to a Sarasota sprinkler repair company?
If only one zone will not come on it could be a faulty valve diaphragm, solenoid or upstream electrical problem (cut wire, bad splice, etc.) Or it could be a burnt circuit board or field terminal in the irrigation timer. If you want to diagnose this yourself, you had better be handy with a volt/ohm meter.

Ready to call that Sarasota sprinkler repair company?

Next we come to programming the sprinkler controller. Every “zone” or area will need slightly different water times. This is because the rate of distribution that is needed for each area will need to be determined by the type and spacing of the sprinkler heads. Over watering can be even more harmful for your landscape than under watering. Still, the area that gets the least amount of water needs to be programmed to receive enough to survive. As even the most sophisticated irrigation systems are at the best 50% efficient overall, it requires some precipitation rate knowledge to program an irrigation timer for what is known as “distribution uniformity lowest quarter.” More information about this can be found at http://abe.ufl.edu/mdukes/pdf/irrigation-efficiency/Residential-irrigation-uniformity-JID.pdf
So as you can see, irrigation repair is not as simple as may appear at first. For this reason you may want to consider hiring a Sarasota sprinkler repair company

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9. Sprinkler Repair Sarasota

Sprinkler Repair Sarasota

Sprinkler Repair Sarasota

During the course of performing sprinkler repair Sarasota, I commonly get asked “what are irrigation valves?”

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Irrigation solenoid valves are the gatekeepers to your sprinkler heads.

They are connected to the water source for your irrigation and control the flow of water to each sprinkler “zone” or section. If you have a five zone system you have five valves.

Quality solenoid valves are built to perform under adverse conditions. They lay quietly in the ground doing their job year after year, covered in dirt and water. As with any equipment that is made up of moving parts, they will eventually wear out and fail.

Sprinkler valves generally fail in one of three ways:

* They will stick open and run 24 hours a day until the water source is turned off.

*They will constantly leak a small amount of water, known as “weeping”.

*Or they will not turn on at all.

The problem is that after 15-20 years of being out of site and out of mind, when they fail—how do you find them?

This is One of the Problems with Sprinkler Repair Sarasota

The best and easiest way to locate a valve is with a specialized tool called a valve locater. However, these devices are expensive to purchase and generally not for rent while doing sprinkler repair Sarasota. So before you go to the expense of hiring a sprinkler repair Sarasota contractor to find your malfunctioning valve, here are some places to look:

First, check near your water source. Many homes have their irrigation system connected to their house water (versus connected to a pump). Most city water systems will have an above ground back flow preventor. This is a metal device with handles on it to turn off the sprinkler water without turning off the water to the house. It should be located near where the water from your city meter goes into your house.

After finding the back flow preventer, take a 12″ screwdriver and GENTLY probe a six foot area around the back flow. Take care to probe slowly as to not puncture any pipes. If you hit something solid , probe around this spot six inches in diameter. If you hit anything smaller than that, keep looking.

The next place to look is where the sprinkler timer is located. Check this area in the same way as you probed the back flow area.

Another indicator to determine the location of the valve is to turn on the defective zone and determine which sprinklers pressurize first. The first heads to pressurize are the ones closest to the valve. Obviously, this will not work with valves that will not come on.

Quite often, the valves will not all be placed in a central location. They will be scattered throughout the yard. A very common location is on the corners of the house.

Because your system was probably installed with a walk-behind-trencher, the valves will be at about two feet off of the walls.

Last thoughts on sprinkler repair Sarasota;

Although buried sprinkler valves can be difficult to find without a valve locator, with some patience and a little luck, they can sometimes be found. while performing sprinkler repair Sarasota.

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Sarasota Sprinkler Repair – How to Avoid Sarasota Sprinkler Repair

Sarasota Sprinkler Repair

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How to avoid Sarasota sprinkler repair?

Here is some sarasota sprinkler repair advice.

I see many Sarasota sprinkler repair contractors advertise “We Provide One Hundred Percent Sprinkler Coverage For Your Lawn.” What does that mean? A drop of water will hit every part of your yard? So what? A quality sprinkler system will provide relatively even coverage for your lawn.

As a Sarasota sprinkler repair specialist and a professional in sprinkler system troubleshooting, I see landscapes everyday that provide “100% coverage” yet the irrigation design is terrible. What matters is uniform coverage for areas that have the same water requirements. In a simplistic way, for every ten drops of water that hit this area, you want at least six to seven drops hit that area. In technical terms it is referred to as DuLQ (distribution uniformity, lowest quarter). This ratio of the evenness of coverage is then expressed as a percentage.

One hundred percent evenness of coverage, or a better term, uniform precipitation, is impossible to achieve. Evaporation, climatic conditions, soil conditions, pressure fluctuations and other considerations make it impossible for every drop of water that is delivered by the sprinklers to end up in the target root profile. However, careful planning and design can keep water waste to a minimum.

Here are some benchmarks to shoot for:

Rotor zones 65-70%

Spray zones 50-65%

Drip zones 85-95%

For example, I recently did some Sarasota sprinkler repair at a home that had rotor and spray heads piped on the same zone. Spray heads (sometimes called “fixed sprays”) generally speaking emit three times as much water over their given area per minute (precipitation rate) as rotor heads (the ones that turn). This mixing of rotors and sprays on the same zone is bad enough. When you add to the situation the fact that the sprays were all in the shade watering mature shrubs, and the rotors were all in full sun watering turf, what you have is a disastrous design. In order to provide the correct amount of water to the turf, the shrubs in the shade, which did not require any water, were being flooded. Yet, this irrigation system provided “100% coverage.”

When searching for an irrigation contractor to install your sprinklers, after the salesman promises “100% coverage”, ask him if he can give you a rough estimate of the uniformity of application per zone. If his says with a big smile “100%”, or even worse “Huh?”, keep looking for another Sarasota sprinkler repair company.

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Sarasota Sprinkler Repair

Sarasota sprinkler repair

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Looking for Sarasota sprinkler repair contractors?

Here is some Sarasota sprinkler repair advice.

Sarasota sprinkler repair contractors are numerous. Due to the amount of St. Augustine turf and mild climate, sprinkler repair in Sarasota work abounds, which draws a lot of less than highly qualified people into the sprinkler system business.

So, how do you know who to trust? Well, there are some indicators that you can use.

Completing a lawn sprinkler county license test in Sarasota and Manatee Counties is not that difficult. Have you taken a drivers license test in Florida? Enough said. Look for Sarasota sprinkler repair contractors who have taken more difficult certification testing. More on this below.

The next qualification to look at is “Will the person who is certified show up to work on my sprinkler system, or will an employee of the certified person show up?” This is where the competition gets very narrow.

The “big full color whole page” companies in the Yellow phone books generally pay their “employee’s” a %25 commission to look for sprinkler system problems. This changes the employee status to an Ad Hoc “salesman” position because the more the “employee” can get out of you, the fatter their pay check. To my knowledge there is only one Sarasota certified sprinkler contractor in the area that meets these requirements.

Here is another great question to ask; “Is your free estimate really free?” The unfortunate answer is, no. The “estimate” is “free” if you sign to do the proposed repairs on the spot. If not, you will be asked for a $75-$85 service call fee. Quite honestly, this is fair. No company can pay for trucks, wages and gas for “free”.

Irrigation repair is different than fence installation. A new fence or roof will cost thousands of dollars.  A Sarasota sprinkler repair may only run $95.00. A home repair in the thousands requires an estimate, whereas a repair under $100 hardly covers the overhead. Adding a pool and need a re-design of your sprinkler system? Yes, get an estimate. If you only have a broken sprinkler head, any honest sprinkler contractor in Sarasota can give you his price over the phone. If they can’t, keep dialing.

Check your contractor out at these links. They are national organizations that require far more education than Florida counties require. If you can’t find their name, keep dialing.

1. Irrigation Association certification [http://www.irrigation.org]. This is a far more difficult program to complete. Those with I.A. certification have proven their commitment to the physics and science of irrigation design and water savings.

2.   EPA Water Partner certification. This is an even more rigorous program. Those that are accepted are few.

So in review, how do you choose a qualified Sarasota sprinkler repair contractor?  Make sure that the person that will be on your property is the contractor, not just an employee. Check for credentials and member associations that go beyond the 4 minimum licensing requirements.

Look for these indicators and you will find the Sarasota sprinkler repair company that can meet the challenges of saving water on your sprinkler system.

Craig Borglum CIC/CID/CLIA is a Certified Irrigation Specialist in South Florida. More information and articles on how-to irrigation solutions, click on Sarasota sprinkler repair.

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Maintenance of Sarasota Sprinkler Systems

Your sprinkler systems need to be flushed out in the spring before regular usage. This not only includes your regular sprinkler systems but also any drip sprinkler systems you own. During the winter when your systems are not being used they could have been invaded by small critters. They have a habit of using the sprinklers, emitters, tubes, and sprinkler pipes as their new homes. They manage to find a way in but sometimes find it hard to find their way out once spring arrives. In order to flush out your drip irrigation sprinkler system, the drip tubes must be opened up at the ends and water flushed through it. On your regular sprinklers remove the emitters or nozzles from all the sprinkler heads and turn on the water for cleaning out.
After flushing these tubes with water, replace all the emitters and turn on the sprinklers. You want to check for clogged nozzles or emitters and replace with new ones. You can also try cleaning each clogged nozzle but if you leave any scratches it may alter the spray pattern and create dry spots. This is now the time to replace any nozzles that are missing or malfunctioning. A calcium buildup can be another problem to plague your sprinkler system parts but the problem can be solved with any calcium removal product that you use in the house.
The sprinkler systems along with their valves need to be checked for any leaks. Sometimes the flexible seals will dry out during the winter and provoke the valve to leak as soon as your tune the water back on. If your water bill all of sudden shoots upward it could mean you have a sprinkler or an underground pipe that is leaking.
If you have automatic sprinkler systems you also want to check the timer for the run time on each station. There are plants that need more water than others. It is always a good idea to change the timer with the seasons; this way your plants will receive the proper amount of water for each season. Most plants require less water in cooler weather because the evaporation rate is much slower. If rain is expected please turn off your automatic systems to save water.
If your timer or controller came with a back-up battery, you will want to replace it every spring. Most of the solid state timers use alkaline batteries and will not work correctly with any other kind. If you are in doubt always use alkaline batteries. Some of the high-end controllers come with a built in battery charger and others have a non-volatile program memory and will not need batteries.
If you live in an area where you use sprinkler equipment all year round, a periodic check of the entire system can be done at anytime. Sometimes a good time to do maintenance of sprinkler systems is when the time changes in the fall and then again in the spring. Make sure the sprinkler heads are only watering your landscape and not the sidewalk, street, or your driveway. Be sure your sprinkler heads are adjusted properly and watering as much of the landscape as needed. The sprinkler heads need to pop up above the top of the grass; you may have to raise these heads periodically during the year. Regular maintenance of your sprinklers will not only save money on your water bill and sprinkler systems costs but also conserves one of our most precious resources, water. If you follow these simple guidelines your will have a better performing sprinkler system.

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Why You Need a Proper Sprinkler Installation and Repair in Sarasota

A lush green lawn looks inviting but the lushness requires hard work, and dragging a heavy hose day in and day out to sprinkle the lawn with water can get tedious and not to say time-consuming. A sprinkler system which is well maintained will not only save you the bother of many hours of monotonous watering every week but also keep your lawn looking beautiful and green.
Sprinklers water the lawn without labor and in-built sprinklers are a better option than portable ones. The in-built sprinklers do not have to be moved around to water the areas evenly and they do not destroy the grass if you forget to move them to the right place.
Pop-up sprinklers, drip lone irrigation are the most popular and sprinklers can be installed zonally for easier operational control of various areas. Sprinkler installation can be customized as home owners find it convenient to have it laid out in zones so that each section can be watered independently of the other.
There is a choice of manual or automatic system for sprinklers. The automatic system is very good if you are away from home a lot as they can be programmed to water a particular zone each day. Sprinkler heads, timers and control panels will all be looked into by experts installing the sprinkler system.
Sprinkler systems can be difficult to manage and may require repairs. Repairs done on time are highly recommended as otherwise you will waste your money and water and be left with a dried-up lawn. Sprinkler repair is called for if the pop up heads stop popping up, the nozzles and small tubings get clogged with debris or dirt, the rotary spray heads don’t rotate or the spray heads are kicked or run over by a mower. Leaky valves and clogged filter screens are some of the other repairs which can be tackled on a non-war footing but need to be addressed as soon as possible.
The repairs which require urgent attention are when and if a major pipe line gets cut through maybe during the installation of a cable line or driveway or something just cuts through the pipes. The only way to stop the water from gushing furiously is by turning off the water supply and repairing the sprinkler immediately.

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Do it Yourself Sprinkler System For Your Sarasota Lawn – Some Things to Consider

If watering your lawn is time consuming and if dragging your hose or sprinkler around starts to cause you stress, you can actually opt for lawn sprinkler systems that will help you save time in maintaining a lush garden and lawn. However, you might be thinking of the cost when it comes to installing a lawn sprinkler but worry not, you can actually opt for a do it yourself sprinkler system.
If you decide to make a do it yourself sprinkler system, of course, you have to consider some important things like your equipments, your design and of course the labor required. Opting for a do it yourself sprinkler system may require your time but it can however lessen the cost up to 40 percent than hiring someone to install it for you.
These days, you can also find easy-to-install sprinkler components which can easily be assembled. Installing your own automatic sprinkler also helps you water your lawn or garden in regular schedule. Here are some basic considerations that you need when installing your own.
- Determine what type of sprinkler systems that best fit your yard. Your choice depends largely on the size of your yard, the types of plants you have and the water pressure and flow rate of water in your area.
- Make a sketch and plan of your lawn sprinkler design and make sure to call your utility companies to determine if you are safe to install your sprinkler without having to worry about destroying buried telephone, gas and water lines.
- Determine the water pressure and flow rate in your area. You can research and find a good guide on how to determine them. This is important part of your installation as this will determine the type and design of sprinkler system that fits in your yard.
- To ensure uniform watering, it is important to note that the watered areas of each sprinkler should overlap. In other words, the water radius of one sprinkler should reach the other sprinkler. This should be properly observed in your installation so you won’t be getting dry spots in your lawn. This technique is termed as ‘head-to-head coverage’ and that sprinklers are intended to be set up in this manner.

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Sarasota Lawn Sprinkler System Design – A Few Tips in Installing Your Own

Whether you are into landscaping or you just love gardening but you don’t have too much time to water your plants or your lawn, you can however make your own sprinkler system and you can choose your own lawn sprinkler system design. Sure, you may have second thoughts about doing it yourself but you can actually find good resource and manuals about the technical stuff that you need to learn to make your own lawn sprinkler system.
If you are looking for choices for your lawn sprinkler system design, here are the basic types you can choose from. Of course, your choice will depend on the size of your lawn, the type of soil, and the layout of your lawn or garden.
Stationary lawn sprinklers are best for small lawns or gardens and are generally inexpensive. The coverage also depends on the holes on the top of the sprinkler. Rotary sprinklers or revolving ones are those with spinning arms but this type may not be a good choice for sandy or sloping areas as this can have a low throw radius.
You can also choose oscillating ones, which have great coverage when it comes to watering. This are also a common choices as these are mostly adjustable, thus can be good for large areas. There are also pulsating sprinklers that are capable of distributing water in large areas and closer to the ground, which makes it resistant to strong winds. This type is also adjustable that you can also adjust it according to the needs of your lawn.
You can also opt for in-ground lawn sprinkler system design which is good for large areas and allows you to have uniform coverage of water distribution in your garden. You can also program it to water in regular schedules. This may be costly if you opt for a professional to install it but you can actually find good guides to help you install it yourself and save up to 40 percent of the cost.
If you opt to install your own lawn sprinkler, here are some of the considerations you need in making your own lawn sprinkler system design and installing it.
- Plan your sprinkler system and make sure you have a map of the water and electrical lines and gas pipes in your yard. This will help you avoid damaging them while installing your lawn sprinkler.
- Determine the pressure and flow rate of your water source. This will help you determine which of the types of sprinkler head is best for your lawn. Of course, the design of your sprinkler system depends mainly on your water pressure.

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Everything You Need To Know About Sarasota Sprinkler Systems

Installing a sprinkler or irrigation system for your lawn &/or garden is perhaps one of the few home improvement projects that actually makes your life much easier. Hand watering gardens, flower beds, or lawns-moving a lawn sprinkler attached to the hose every 20 minutes-is not most homeowners’ idea of fun.
A sprinkler system automates this entire process while eliminating the concern of whether or not your yard is getting the proper amount of water it needs. Hand watering or using an oscillator, takes more time, wastes water, and leaves areas of your yard either over-watered or under-watered. And, generally speaking, only about 60% of the water you spray at your lawn actually does any good. A properly designed and installed sprinkler system addresses all these concerns.
Basic Sprinkler System Operation
At its most rudimentary level, a sprinkler system consists of a relatively few main components. We’ll start with the controller. This is an electronic, computerized unit that is the “brains” behind the sprinkler system. The controller utilizes a timer that tells your system which set of sprinkler heads need to turn on when, and for how long. It is connected to a set of valves that regulate the flow of water into a specific “zone” in your sprinkler system. The valves are tied directly into your water system and act like faucets that turn off and on when told to by the controller.
These valves then feed water into the rest of the sprinkler system, which is typically composed of undersurface pipes that lead to the actual sprinkler heads. The sprinkler heads are normally placed near ground level when not in use, and then pop-up when the water pressure fills the pipes that feed them…so there you have it, the essence of a sprinkler system.
Although there a number of “do-it-yourself” sprinkler system kits on the market, the complexity of a properly designed, installed and maintained system, precludes the ability and expertise of the average homeowner. For instance, how many homeowners would know what the local regulations and specifications are? Are there permits required? Which backflow device is needed for the specific application; PVB, RP or double check? Is PVC or poly pipe called for? How many and what type of valves are needed? What type of rotor heads do you need; stream rotors, gear driven rotors or impact-style rotors, and where do you place them? And what about”spray” or “mist” type heads, drip irrigation, rain sensors, etc. etc.

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