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| irrigation | 10/22/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: i want to design a sprinkler irrigation system of orchard(e.g the layout of trees in an orchard or ...
A: I assume you mean a sprinkler or drip system. You will need to know what your water supply is and ...
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| Irrigation Zone Pressure (Lack Of) | 10/12/2006 | James Grote |
Q: Mr. Grote, One of my zones has no pressure. It appears it is coming from the valve. I capped all ...
A: Jay, Yes if you here a hissing noise that sounds like a restriction when the valve is on ...
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| Winterizing an unfamiliar system | 10/10/2006 | James Grote |
Q: Hope you can help me. I moved in to a house that has an irrigation system but no records or ...
A: Greg, I would suggest that you just go to the phone book and call someone to do it for you. If you ...
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| pressure switch and gauge installation | 10/6/2006 | James Grote |
Q: this concerns my lawn sprinkler ststem. does it matter if I install the pressure switch and gauge ...
A: Ben, I'm thinking, I'm thinking. I drawing a picture for myself. The pressure switch and the need ...
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| Zone problem | 10/5/2006 | James Grote |
Q: I have a 6 zone irrigation system. Today one zone developed a problem. When that zone comes on, ...
A: Art, What the heck is going on out there? This one is driving you crazy isn't it. It does not seem ...
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| Irrigation | 10/3/2006 | James Grote |
Q: Mr. Grote, I live in Palm Bay, Florida and have recently had to relocate (by a few feet) my ...
A: larry, did you give it some time. if you've got the heads hissing then you have air getting into the ...
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| Irrigation Help | 10/1/2006 | William J Wood |
Q: I installed a small system in my yard. 4 valves and a lot of sprinklers. The water pressure is 35 ...
A: I would love to help you out with your problem, but P'm going to need a little more info. If you ...
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| Compressor required for Winterizing Irregation system | 9/30/2006 | James Grote |
Q: I installed my irregation system this past summer and I'm now ready to winterize it. My concern is ...
A: Greg, you can do it with that compressor, but it wil take a very long time, because you only have ...
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| Residential Sprinkler System/Water Draining Problem | 9/29/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: HELP! I live in Marysville Michigan. My house is 9 years old. It is on CLAY- -Marysville is ...
A: I am sorry if I overlooked you question, but I have been a little under the weather lately. Sounds ...
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| shallow well priming | 9/26/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: The well is 16' deep and 42" of water in the tube and I can't get it to prime with a pitcher pump or ...
A: The well pipe is not holding water for some reason. If you have a foot valve at the end (bottom) of ...
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| Irrigation | 9/25/2006 | James Grote |
Q: Grote, First thank you for your time and effort to answer this question of mine. We are in an ...
A: Tedi, Not much pressure to work with. When it goes down to 30 psi the heads probably won't come ...
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| Installing small system | 9/22/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: I have a area of grass beside a pool. Its about 50' long X 15 wide. It goes from the pool decking ...
A: That should be OK, but I would use PVC pipe with glued fittings. They stand up to use better. ...
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| shallow well for drainage | 9/19/2006 | James Grote |
Q: virginia beach va, I have an in ground vinyl lined pool; when it was first installed the builder ...
A: larry, thats a problem. if it's pushing the liner up, then you have water getting deep enough to ...
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| Toro ProStream Lawn Sprinkler head | 9/13/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: How do I decrease the spraying distance on a Toro ProStream Lawn Sprinkler head?
A: There should be a small screw on the top of the sprinkler, right above the nozzle that will reduce ...
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| pressure valves | 9/12/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: I recently had outdoor sprinklers installed. When they are turned on the pipes shake and knock. Also ...
A: This sort of thing can have several causes, but I would suspect in your case that the cause is that ...
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| Shallow Well Pump Losing Pressure | 9/12/2006 | James Grote |
Q: but my boyfriend does. He just installed a Gould's 1 hp shallow well pump in his yard and hooked it ...
A: Sandra, You probably have a leak in the sprinkler system main line piping . That is what it sounds ...
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| Using Excess Groundwater for Irrigation | 9/12/2006 | James Grote |
Q: We're in the Chicago area in a new construction home. We have a sump pump that runs continually in ...
A: Aimee, Are you sure that is how much you are getting. If so you have done some work on this and ...
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| sprinkler system repair | 9/8/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: How many hours would you say it should take to install the garbage disposal and the sprinkler ...
A: Based on my experiance with those items I would say 3-4 hours for the disposal, and 1-2 hours for ...
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| sprinkler system repair | 9/8/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: I recently had to replace my 6 zone Rain Bird automatic sprinkler controller (RC-7Bi) The handyman ...
A: I think this is very wrong. I believe that the cost of the controller and the garbage disposal ...
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| pump cycles on and off too quickly | 9/8/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: 5hp) irrigation pump that just started to cycle on and off really quickly. Like less then 4 seconds ...
A: I would suspect a problem with the pressure tank. If you have the type that has an air bladder ...
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| Using Excess Groundwater for Irrigation | 9/6/2006 | James Grote |
Q: We're in the Chicago area in a new construction home. We have a sump pump that runs continually in ...
A: Aimee, I don't know if there is enough water coming out of the sump pump to do anything. You ...
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| No water out of sprinkler heads | 9/6/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: We have an underground sprinkler system that was working great until we had road work done. ...
A: The problem sounds like it was caused by the work on the road. I will assume that the work crossed ...
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| controll valves/sprinkler system | 9/6/2006 | James Grote |
Q: I have 3/4 inch richdell valves on my sprinkler system. how do I tell if they are the reason there ...
A: David, It is possible that the valve is the problem. On the valvwe there should be a little ...
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| K2 sprinkler adjustment-outside slot on head | 8/31/2006 | James Grote |
Q: What is the outside slot on top of the sprinkler head for and does it adjust anything? The center ...
A: Bubba, The K2 I think is the same thing as the Toro 800. We don't get K2's up where I'm at. So, ...
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| irrigation system | 8/30/2006 | James Grote |
Q: Jim, thanks for the quick reply. Ok, so I want to use 1 1/2" pipe the whole way, correct? This ...
A: Deb, As far as the number of heads go, I guess I was not clear, but you can not pump more ...
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| irrigation | 8/30/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: I am putting in a sprinkler irrigation in a 5 acre field using 2 inch PVC pipe, my risers will be 2 ...
A: My first choice would be teflon tape, 3-4 wraps. The paste type sealants tend to have particles ...
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| irrigation system | 8/29/2006 | James Grote |
Q: My water meter is 3/4 and my supply line is 1 1/2". I have three large pastures (140' x 90' and ...
A: Deb, Lot of questions here. I'm earning my money on this one. First of all, lets look at the water ...
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| well water pump | 8/28/2006 | James Grote |
Q: I live in Deltona, Florida.I had a WORKING well water pump system about over a year ago. Until that ...
A: Milton, The inspector has an advantage over me in that he was physically there to look at it. If ...
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| sprinkler pressure | 8/27/2006 | James Grote |
Q: I had a well and sprinkler system installed in my Florida home 2 yrs ago. Recently I have ...
A: Frank, It may be the pump, but you need to check for what is called a mainline leak on the system ...
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| irragation and drainage | 8/20/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: I purchased a home about 2 years ago. The house was built in 1989 and sits on an average size lot. ...
A: You are going to have to install a series of catch basins and drain lines that will take the water ...
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| 100 x 200 outside horse arena | 8/16/2006 | James Grote |
Q: I am a contractor for a company out of Dallas. I was recently sent to a job that the homeowner ...
A: Heath, Yes, they do, but thats about max distance out of any head I couold find. I looked at ...
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| Irrigation Prime Problem | 8/13/2006 | James Grote |
Q: Sprinkler system worked great..Lake feed. INstalled new lake feed pipe with long "can" and I cannot ...
A: Brian, Is this a follow up question or is this the first time. I had a guy last week with suction ...
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| Adjustment of K2 sprinkler heads | 8/12/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: I had an area handyman (who is no longer in the area) replace some residential lawn sprinker heads, ...
A: I got this off the Krain web site. Sorry about the delay, I thaought I had answered your question a ...
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| sprinkler pressure/well | 8/11/2006 | James Grote |
Q: the water pressure on our sprinkler is not as strong, but still doing the job. one head pops up,(on ...
A: Ed, sounds like you don't want to spend the well money, also sounds like you don't trust the well ...
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| hammering irrigation system | 8/6/2006 | Jeff Wooten |
Q: When my irrigation system is running, it makes a loud and unpleasant hammering sound for the entire ...
A: Water hammer is a condition caused when water in a plumbing system is subject to changes in velocity ...
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| Valves | 8/5/2006 | James Grote |
Q: The valves are WeatherMatic. I did some more trouble shooting and realized when I purchased the ...
A: Darren, I am familiar with the weathermatic valves and the main thing that has been the problem has ...
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| new irrigation system | 8/4/2006 | James Grote |
Q: In the past month a new irrigation system has been installed in my yard. My home is about 3 years ...
A: Jennifer, I trust that the company that put the thing in will get it fixed. The air chamber should ...
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| Sprinkler Value area filling with water | 8/4/2006 | James Grote |
Q: James, We live in Omaha, NE. I noticed that my sprinkler value control box was filling up with ...
A: Ron, Not sure, but I think what you've got there are something called auto drains. They have a ...
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| Drainage Problem | 8/3/2006 | James Grote |
Q: James, Four years ago we purchased a 1970's house in Maryland. At the time there had been some ...
A: Karen, I don't know. Is it possible to regrade the yard at the area of standing water so that it is ...
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| Valves | 8/3/2006 | James Grote |
Q: I have a residential irrigation system using a RainDial RD-900 and 7 valves. The system has been in ...
A: Darren, you told what kind of clock you have, but that is not your problem. What kind of valves do ...
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