Help! I need a sprinkler guy.

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Originally Posted by ray1970

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I adjusted twice this year, and still not getting enough coverage in some areas. I see tons of spots like that in my neighboring houses as well. We use to get notices from a HOA when someone has a spot like that.
HOA is being really nice about it this year.

I know my backyard is Hunters.
I had to DIY on sprinkler heads, because I destroyed it with my lawn mowers this year. I tried with higher flow rate, changed the angle+distance, and still same.

The best solution for me was just to buy those $2.99 temp sprinkler head and spot water them. Bag of $1.49 fertilizer does help. I also reduced automatic sprinkler time by 4minutes/day average.

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Originally Posted by JohnTRourke

why would you need a new yard?
I'm confused
We're talking sprinkler systems here.
the tap is done, a clock exists, everything else is relatively straight forward.
Probably $1500 bucks in parts and rental of a trencher or a pipe puller at most. probably less.

new correctly designed system.

My water bills can exceed $300 a month in the summer (and this month is going to be ridiculous) and I have a well designed system (pretty big yard).

If we can knock $100 off a month from not running twice as much, in 15 months it's paid for. that's about 3 years of watering.

that pays for itself.

Plus, the grass is green and the system works.

I never said or alluded to replacing the yard. that's plain silly.

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Like I said, I think I was confusing this with another thread that was going on and I thought you were suggesting replacing the entire yard and starting over which, I think we can both agree, would be foolish at this point.

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Originally Posted by Jer

Like I said, I think I was confusing this with another thread that was going on and I thought you were suggesting replacing the entire yard and starting over which, I think we can both agree, would be foolish at this point.

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oh hell yes (to foolish)
fix the sprinklers (either band aids and baling wire or really fix them), scratch in some seed, water like hell this fall when it cools down
fixed