Help! I need a sprinkler guy.

[ray1970]

My yard is looking like crap. Pretty sure I am not getting good coverage from the sprinklers. I know some of the heads have "sunk in" and a few are tilted. I am planning on replacing some of the heads, putting extensions under the ones that are too low to bring them back up, and straightening the crooked ones. As far as trying to get good coverage, I really don't know what I'm doing. Maybe I don't have the right kind of heads? Maybe I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to adjusting them?

If I don't get help soon, my whole yard is going to die.

[jhood001]

Maybe I don't have the right kind of heads? Maybe I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to adjusting them?

Maybe Colorado needs some $&#@*$% RAIN! I'm about ready to put salt in my garden and pour a cement slab over it.

I've got some hot spots on my lawn, too. I just have to hit them with a sprinkler and hose twice a week despite my irrigation system. It is just really hard to keep the entire thing green when it is like this.

[ray1970]

Watering it by hand is difficult for me because I work long hours and am often out of town for work. I don't mind the dead grass except for the loud noise it causes when the wife is bitching about it.

If I could pave the whole darn thing I probably would. But for now I am going to try to make it green again.

[BUC303]

the wife is bitching about it.

"hey wife, water the lawn" Problem = solved

[JohnTRourke]

pictures??????????

[ray1970]

[Zundfolge]

Its very hot and very dry, you're sprinklers are probably covering just fine, but they can't keep up with the dry heat.

Water more often and for longer per watering, that's the only solution (although you might consider using some sort of lawn wetting agent ... applied like fertilizer ... dunno if they actually work or are just expensive "snake oil" though).

Of course considering what water costs out here in CO I imagine the complaints from the wife will get louder when that first bill comes.

[jscwerve]

If you are replacing heads, don't get the cheapo Rain-Bird Home Depot crap, they are garbage. Go to Ewing or CPS or a place like that and get good Hunter heads. There is a BIG difference.

[rondog]

Biggest problem I have with my sprinklers is bits of sand and tiny pebbles will get jammed in the spray orifices, and mess up the spray pattern or block it off completely. This happens when they stop spraying and pop back down, then the dirt and crap that falls in the hole while it's spraying can get jammed in the nozzle.

If you can take the spray nozzles off, look to see if they're clogged and can be cleaned out. When you pull the pop-up stem up (if you have that kind), be sure to use some kind of clamp on the stem so it doesn't pop back down when you remove the nozzle. Sucks when that happens.

[ray1970]

Its very hot and very dry, you're sprinklers are probably covering just fine, but they can't keep up with the dry heat.

Water more often and for longer per watering, that's the only solution (although you might consider using some sort of lawn wetting agent ... applied like fertilizer ... dunno if they actually work or are just expensive "snake oil" though).

Of course considering what water costs out here in CO I imagine the complaints from the wife will get louder when that first bill comes.

The Trugreen guy put some sort of "wetting agent" on it a week ago. I have been watering 30 minutes a station five days a week. The wife wants the lawn green no matter what it cost. I am the one who complains about the $300 water bills.

If you are replacing heads, don't get the cheapo Rain-Bird Home Depot crap, they are garbage. Go to Ewing or CPS or a place like that and get good Hunter heads. There is a BIG difference.

Thanks. I know the last few heads I have gotten were the Rain-Bird ones. I missed out on getting some brass ones a couple of years ago really cheap from a Southerlands store up in Casper.