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How to prevent your sprinkler system valves from freezing when an early freeze is coming and you haven't had a chance to blow out your sprinkler lines yet. How to Winterize your Sprinkler System

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Sean Stefan of Sprinkler Daddy weighs the pros and cons of swivel and solid Dura manifolds for your sprinkler system.

Traditionally pvc has been used in irrigation manifolds, but Dura makes a swivel manifold system that makes it a ton easier on installation and better for repairs.

Installing a wall mounted sprinkler valve manifold is as easy as screwing out your existing tap and screwing in the manifold. You may also want to brace the manifold with some u-clamps and a block of wood.

Traditionally pvc has been used in irrigation manifolds, but Dura makes a swivel manifold system that makes it a ton easier on installation and better for repairs. At Sprinkler Daddy we like to use Dura in all of our systems - get your quote at http://www.SprinklerDaddy.caAuthor: sprinklerdaddy Tags: PVC Dura Manifolds Sprinkler Daddy Posted: 14 October 2009 Rating: 0.0 Votes: 0

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Are your RainBird 5000 sprinkler heads leaking after installation? You might want to clean out the lines and the head before jumping to a replacement. Sean Stefan from Sprinkler Daddy ( http://www.SprinklerDaddy.ca ) talks about how to go about cleaning out your RainBird 5000 sprinkler heads and sprinkler lines to see if that solves your leaky sprinkler problem. http://www.graspr.com/videos/RainBird-5000-Troubleshooting-Leaking-Heads-1 Tags: RainBird, 5000, Troubleshooting, Leaking, Sprinkler, Problem, and, Solution, graspr From: sprinklerdaddy Date Uploaded: 8 Sep 2009 Duration: 1:47 Views: 1 Ratings: 0

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Okay, it s time to put our drains in. Each year, most people want to put some sort of winterizing drain so that they don t leave their system water filled over the winter. In this particular case, we re going to put in some automatic drain. There s pluses and negativities to automatic drains versus manual drains, but we re going to let ours drain automatically. So, I m going to cut each valve after the valve. I m going to cut the line and I m going to put in a 1 inch to a inch, female T. Of course, just like any other PVC fitting, you just want to clean your pipe real good and then glue it well. So that s a 1 inch to a inch female, because that is what our automatic drains fit into. You can get these at any Lowe s or irrigation supply places, just a pressure drain that close off when the system is pressurized and they release when the system releases its pressure and they allow the system to drain. So you just stick one of these in. You don t want to put them facing up. You generally want to put them in either facing down or sideways so that the water will be able to drain according to gravity. You also want to put them in the lowest part of the system. It just so happens that the lowest part of our system is in the valve box. The valve box is low. So now we re going to go ahead and install our automatic drain valves. You can replace this with a manual valve. You can do it the same way, especially if they re in valve box, it s easy to get to them and turn them off manually when its time to winterize your system or turn them on, allow them to drain manually. But these are going to be automatic and that s the last one. We re just going to cut it and glue it in the same way.

http://www.LandscapingUniversity.com Okay it s time to wire our system. I m just showing you the different, the colors of the wires here. I use red, white, and blue as my first three zones. It s just easier to remember, red, white, and blue, one, two, three. Strip your wires down and give yourself plenty of working room there. I ve got about 5 inches and then you ll just use a pair of electrical pliers and strip your wires about a half inch on each wire. Now the red, white, and blue will be my hot and I m using my black wire as the common wire. So each valve has two wires coming out it. It does not matter which one you use for common, just grab one of them. The hot wire is not as important when it comes to valves versus say lighting or something. So I have three values, I m going to take three of the wires, or one wire from each valve equally three. And I m going to hook all three of those up to my common. We re using waterproof connectors. There are several different kinds of waterproof connectors, these are just filled with some sort of water sealant, and they re regular electrical connectors with a water sealant inside of them. So we re going to hook, those are commons, three commons hooked up to our black wire. There are some that you can insert the entire end of the wire into a grease filled cap and close it. These are just a little faster. Now so I m going to take my first zone, what ever I want to be zone one and I m going to hook it up to my red wire. So then zone two will be white. Take the remaining wire that is left from that valve and then we re going to do the same thing with zone three, the blue wire. Now that we ve got all of the wires hooked up, you want to pull a little bit of extra slack out of the your main line. The black wire there and so you can put it into the valve box so that later when you get ready to work on it again or change something or change the wiring, you ll have room to pull it outside of the valve box, just wrap a little bit there. And then lay your wire, your black wire into your ditch, into your trench that you ve already got dug. Run it over to where you want it to enter the house. And then we just use an electric or a hammer drill to drill through the wall where we need to drill through. And we take the wire through the wall. And then we ve got out control box inside the garage in this particular instance. So we pull our wire through and now we re ready to wire up our control box. Once again, we just strip the ends of the wire. And pull the black rubber covering. Now we re going to use the same red, white, and blue wires. So any excess wires that you have in this case the green and the yellow, we re going to cut those off just to get those out of the way. It makes for less confusion. So we re going to strip about half inch, you could strip maybe a quarter of an inch when you re hooking up to the control box depending on what control box you use. And in each control box usually they re very user friendly. One of them will say common or COM. And so you re going to hook your common up to that area, which is our black wire. And then they ll just generally be a one, two, and three for your different zones. So in our particular case we ve got red, white, and blue for zone one, two, and three. He s having a little trouble with his common there. You don t want to cut too much of the plastic covering off in this particular case because if you do your wires can touch inside of the manifold. So we re just using about, about a quarter of an inch. Sometimes you ll have to cut the wires at different lengths just to get it to fit in the valve box the way you want it. Okay now we ve got those connected one, two, and three and this particular controller is using an AC outlet so we re going to hook our AC power up, which it s pretty straight forward. It just has two AC screws that you unscrew and connect that in. And then you re just ready to plug this particular box in. When it comes to the boxes, there are several different types and far as setting the controls, you just have to read the manual to whatever box you are using.

http://www.LandscapingUniversity.com Installing Flex Pipe and Cleaning out System Okay, when installing flex pipe, you can see that I have an orange flag there to my right and that's where the head is actually going to be. So I want to go up a couple of feet from that head and cut my PVC so that I ll have a little bit of area to work with when I do have my flex pipe installed. So I can move it and adjust the head. Always clean your pipe and your fittings and glue liberally. Now, in the case, we're using a one-inch tee that goes to a half-inch threaded. Some fittings are going to use three-quarter inch threaded. Once you get that glued in, then you're going to decide which fitting you need for the flex pipe. These are barbed fittings. They're one-half inch barbed to either a half-inch or a three-quarter inch threaded male. I want to use a barbed in this particular case. And screw that in and just hand-tighten. And once you get that tight, you're going to take your flex pipe and press it onto the barb. And that usually fits in very securely. Now, once you have your flex pipe attached, you want to come out, maybe give yourself a little bit of extra flex pipe on the end, where the actual head will be placed. And then just leave that open. We're just showing you a different example here. This is an end-head on a corner, so we don t have a tee. We just have a one-inch adaptor to a three-quarter inch female. We're using a straight, barbed adaptor to the flex hose and just cut it off a couple of inches long. And then you'll be ready to clean your system. Okay, now we're ready to clean out our system before we put our heads on. So we want to make a quarter-turn manually to our valves, which will open up our system. And we want to do this one zone at a time. And then you just allow that funny pipe to blow out for a few minutes. And then we lay our heads down next to each one of our flags that we've got marked on where out funny pipe is.

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