Protect your lawn sprinkler System: winterize early

It is important to protect your lawn sprinkler system. Winterize as early as possible. The importance of this process will be appreciated when you consider the enormous damage that will be caused if it is not done. There is always some residual water in your lawn sprinkler system even after it's been turned off for a long while. If the water is allowed to remain in the pipes during winter, it freezes and causes cracks in the pipes, sprinkler heads and other more expensive parts like your backflow preventer and pressure regulators.

If this unfortunate event happens, then you might have to change your entire lawn sprinkler system. This will obviously cost you some more money which could have been saved if you had taken these precautionary steps I don’t know of any body who wants to change his lawn sprinkler system every planting season not unless there’s an experiment going on.

Please allow me to repeat this for emphasis.

"The high costs of repairing a damaged system or reinstalling a new system can be avoided if you take time to prepare your lawn sprinkler system for the winter."

The process is simple and it basically involves.

1. Draining all the water from your lawn sprinkler system.

2. Insulating(or removing and storing where possible) important components like the backflow preventer and the sprinkler heads.

3. Turning off your water timer so that the sprinkler system doesn’t accidentally go on during the winter.

For details see irrigationtutorials.com

Spring Startup Proceedure For Your Lawn Sprinkler System

After the long period of hibernation, it will be unwise to just hook up your lawn sprinkler system again and start watering. There are some recommended preparatory steps that you should take.

Run water through your system for some minutes to flush out debris, and creatures like rodents and may be snakes that might have sought Shelter in the pipes.

When you are satisfied that it is clear, then you can fix up the system and off you go.

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