How to WINTERIZE and blow out your sprinkler system
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- Опубліковано 29 жов 2018
- In this video I am showing how to winterize my underground sprinkler system. This is very easy to do and you really do not need to pay someone to do this for you.
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Connor, I bought a new controller this past summer made by Orbit that is Wifi. Its called b-hyve. You can program the system from your phone and turn your sprinklers on manually which is really nice when blowing out the lines in the winter. You don't have to keep going back to the controller to change zones. It also gives you weather updates for the area you live in. I love it.
Fun video. Yes fall and winter sucks man. Can’t wait for spring to come again
I'm sad. Everyone is going dormant. Now I have to watch the lawn guys in the southern hemisphere through the winter and every day I'll wish I could mow grass.
That's a real outdoor man right there!
Hey Connor, great videos! Thank you for sharing.
Hey Hey Hey, good info Connor, doesn’t get cold enough here to winterise but is interesting to see what you go through. 😁👍👍I still mulch mow once a week in winter.😄🇦🇺
Well, that season went by fast, thanks for the video!
Watching you blow out 74 zones make me happy I only have 3. :) Thanks for the videos.
Always time for a nice fire on a brisk autumn night.
Good job Connor! I did mine yesterday, took me 2.5 hours to do 5 zones with a small compressor. Small ones work great, it just takes a lot longer.
How to winterize your irrigation: move to Florida, no need to ever winterize your irrigation. Done!
I'm going to miss you over your winter , I live in Australia and we are going into summer hope you don't get to cold mate
Yes. Winter... Here's to hoping that I can get through it.
@@lawnrebel good luck mate
@@@leopeyr313 Where in Australia do you live? I live in Melbourne. We're experiencing unseasonably warm weather and little rainfall. I'm seeing a lot of dried out, brown lawns that have been cut very short (some almost down to dirt level). I irrigate my lawn and after a top dressing and fertilising earlier in the spring it's looking healthy and green. I do get criticism from environmental activists telling me that by irrigating my lawn, what I am doing is wrong & immoral. I have to educate people that grass is water efficient in converting CO2 to Oxygen, prevents soil erosion and soil fertility loss, prevents establishment of environmental weeds, provides a visual and recreational amenity and that beneath the lawn there is a living microenvironment teeming with a diversity of life - microbial & insect.
@@tertia0011 I use to have a lawn in cooranbong NSW now I live on my yacht in Gosford, I miss my lawn😔
Connor, you forgot a step!!! You need to open the drains on the Backflow Preventer to blow the water out of that too. Failing to do so can cause the most expensive repair job because not only is the backflow preventer about $140, but it requires plumbing to remove the broken one and install the new one, which usually means a plumber has to do it.
Depends upon how the irrigation system is designed. Where I live, by building code, the backflow preventer has to be dedicated to the irrigation system and at least 18-inches above the ground. The preventer is on the incoming water supply in front of the valve box, and attached using pipe unions. When you drain the irrigation system, the backflow preventer automatically drains. You don't need a plumber to change the backflow preventer unless you don't understand how pipe unions work.
Buckhorn Cortez my point was to avoid having to change the backflow preventer in the first place, by simply blowing it out. Connor did not even mention the backflow preventer. Even if you don’t blow it out, it should at least be mentioned that the drain screws should be opened.
I dont have a back flow preventer. That's why I didn't mention it.
Best opener ever.
Good stuff. Interesting to see how other's systems are set up. I recently did a video on this too. My compressor hooks up right next to the city shutoff valve for the secondary water supply.
Yeah.. All systems are just a little bit different.
Its time for a larger compressor and you can make snow in the winter also..
Your Lawn is still glowing green and looks great.
Thank christ we don't have to deal with that sort of cold in Australia. Anyway it's almost over summer over here, forecast to be 99F tomorrow. Nice and warm.
First first! Love the channel Connor
Thanks for the video. My winterization procedure has always been to simply turn off the main water source to the yard and then I turn four screws located in a green box in the ground about 90 degrees to open them up (not sure what those four screws are called) but after I turn them, water starts draining from them.
I'm going to go look to see if I have an air compressor connection somewhere and see if I can blow them out like you did.
As always, your video are freaking awesome! However got a few things for you to follow up on. 1. The Essentials 13, what ever became of that? was it any good? Did it suck? 2. What type of Reel Mower you going after? Any new updates on that? 3. Can we do a Fourth of July, Stripe-Off Competition in 2019? Get you and anyone else that wants to participate. What do ya think? In reality, I'M CALLING YOU OUT!!! I'm bringing it, so don't be a Woosie Girl,....... Conner?
I like where you are going with these questions. I will address them
Woosie girl🤣😂
cool...!!!!!!
Another number.
That's exactly what I do, just north of you in Idaho. I'm a little late getting around to it this year. Hmmm... maybe I can do it during all the Halloween mess, scare those little kids as they approach the yard. (I'm kidding...)
It’s been 85 in Dallas all week
We CALL THE MAN to do it cuz he has a if desiel trailer compressor he's here and gone in less than an hour and I'd shit breaks they pay
Three hundred and fourteenth Like!!!!
You should move to Australia, we have summer all year round
Not where I live 😢
Head to Queensland.😁
trevor muggeridge maybe one day!
It's sad the end of another great year
Darn leaves I have the same problem
Post a new one soon!
At 1:35 that water filter could use a changing.
5st?
Good job Conner I myself also put rv antifreeze in my system just a double security for me!
How do you inject it?
@@lawnrebel you can buy a nozzle with a hose that will go in the rv jug and the air with vacuum it in the line. I blow all the water out first then inject the rv juice it them second. When it come out pink you know you have it and all the traps and bends!
Yeah.. The traps and bends worry me
Here is how I winterize my system: Step 1 move to a warmer climate, Step 2 done.
It’s not cold enough in Dallas to freeze the soil so I don’t do anything
That would be nice for sure
And our Bermuda grows all year. Well at mostly southern exposure... and mostly in my flower bed
Bleau Hartley south Texas doesn’t have winters but Dallas does although no soil freezes here. The soil does freeze in Amarillo though.
Bleau Hartley Texas is huge. Amarillo is cold as hell and south Texas is borderline tropical
WesleyAPEX True that,Texas has it all. Born and raised here in north Texas. Amarillo feeds the nation the protein it needs. If the feedstocks go, a lot of people are going to be hungry. Go Horns! And Go Aggies! Without the agricultural infrastructure we'd all be asking "where's the beef?" Maybe Mr Ward would let me hunt elk on his property?
Whoops I said the S word I think that got blocked. We CALL THE MAN with the air compressor on a trailer so when thinks break they fix it which is rare. Those big 1 inch supply lines require LOTS OF AIR to evacuate those lines I know you're a rebel but I'm to cautious for all that nonsense piece of mind for me is worth cash this old bag don't need to be worrying middle of christmas dinner did I do it right LOL
Second!!
I use a diesel air compressor at my place. I hook it up in two places. I need that much air. Your small compressor would do nothing for me. My main pipe from my pond is a 2 inch pipe and I have 5 acres to blow out.
Is it much easyer to mount a drainage valve?
not really. I would not trust that
That's a lot of Mayo!
What can I say? We love mayo
@@lawnrebel We love it to! Keep up the great videos!!
Man, you badly need Rachio
Connor, please stop charging your irrigation lines with air with the valves closed. If you need to recharge your air compressor close the outlet valve at the compressor leaving the irrigation valve open, once the air is charged back up then you can open up the air compressor's outlet valve. Also, folks do not blow out through your backflow always make the connect after the backflow check valves.
Why wouldn't you want to pressurize the lines all the way up to the zone valves? That is essentially more compressed air being stored in the lines and not just in the compressor tank alone. Since his compressor tank isn't that big it helps to use the pipes to increase the volume of compressed air.
Yeah, you pretty much need to do it the way he's doing it. I've been doing it for 20 years and have no problem.
I agree with cliff
What is your email? I would like to send you a few pictures of what I have going on in my yard. You always share with me your beautiful lawn and I would love to share with you mine.
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Why won't your wife let you get a bigger compressor?
Don't encourage people to do this, that little compressor has nowhere near enough cfm to blow out a system completely
It's worked fine for me in the years past. No broken pipes to date
TheWolf a compressor like that will work. It’ll push all the water out. But not all of it. The water that remains sits at the bottom of the pipe. It may freeze but it has room to expand so the pipe doesn’t break
Agreed with TheWolf... it's not the pressure, its the volume. That little compressor will be taxed pretty hard to keep up producing enough air - the motor simply will burn out faster, that's the real risk. Around my neighborhood, you can get your blow-down done for $50 or so. They bring a trailer-mounted compressor that can run at 40psi constant and have plenty of volume. Also, going higher pressure than 40-50psi or running too long at high volume or pressure can start to melt the gears in rotor heads. They rely on the water to keep "lubricated" and cool. Also, you skipped blowing out the backflow preventer/checkvalve etc. Be careful going too high pressure-wise through the backflow. There's a rubber diaphragm in there that flaps around and once brittle due to age, will tear under air pressure that is too high. Not super hard to replace it but why wreck it by being too eager with the tool pressure knob on your compressor? Sorry for so many edits/follow-ons... just passing along info from my experience working on sprinklers both in my own yard, and all over the golf course I worked at in high-school/college. One last thought - some compressors really heat the air up as it is compressed... they air can get too hot and soften/weaken plastic fittings/tubes. Take a spin through some of the DIY pages dealing with guys that plumb their garage air with pvc... No sense in blowing up your underground pipes!
Ok why would you THUMB this video down? Sorry bud i cancelled you out
Please don’t encourage the use of such a small compressor. Yes it may work for you now, but you got lucky. You have plenty of pressure, but no volume of air. You need at least 20cfm to blow out a small system. More if it’s larger. The air will simply glide over the water in the pipes at lower CFMs. Any low heads and the water will collect there and freeze. Pipes too. If there’s any water remaining in the line (and there will be with that compressor) you’re just asking for trouble. If you’re going to encourage people to blow out their lines themselves than fine. But don’t show them how to do it the wrong way. Use a pull behind compressor. You can rent them for a reasonable price. I’m not trying to diss DIY. Aside from being an irrigation contractor, I am extremely DIY in all aspects of my home, but you gotta get projects done right to save headaches down the road bruh.