My home sprinkler system is designed with two valve boxes, one in the front yard and the other in the back yard. Each valve box has a PVC manifold with 4 custom sections and 4 toro valves (flow master or something like that). The valves have been leaking for years, but have now got to the point that one station will not shut off in its normally line up ( i had to switch valve 5 with valve 8 so that after the watering cycle it would shut off. So this year, I plan on swapping the valves out. I tho...
Thanks for the suggestion!
I agree but...do you think it might be the controller causing the problem? I'm planning on changing the valves out soon, but if I could delay that would make life easier for me now.
My sprinkler system (toro valves) has 8 zones. everything operates normally up to zone 5. When zone five finishes and zone 6 comes on, zone 5 fails to shut off. When zone 6 shuts off so will zone 5 leaving zones 7 and 8 to operate normally. Any suggestions on what will cause this problem? The system was installed in 1997. I suspect the problem could be (1) the valve diaphragms are failing in the valve that controls zone 5 I also found out the valves I have are no longer made (flo pro 2800514). W...
