I rented a trencher that they delivered on a flatbed (?!); nothing like the little ones I had seen on DIY or HGTV shows. The guy from the rental place spent 45 mins showing me how to use it. Aside from a little run-in with one of my garbage cans, everything went fine. <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
I've got my timer kicking off at 4am and each grass zone gets 1.5 hours of watering twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays (shrub zones are different). I have good head to head coverage and good pressure, the zone times overlap, and I'm done by 6:45. It doesn't interfere with morning showers and I've got a really nice looking dark green lawn. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> ( btw: I live on Long Island, so the grasses and climate are similar to CT. )
Thanks, Ray. I manually opened them and flushed, but they were still unresponsive, so I just replaced them. I'm going to replace them with a different brand (Irritrol perhaps) as they fail in the future. Toro tech support was barely sympathetic when I called them: they implied the failures were due to having the lines blown out in the fall.<img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle>
Last year (spring 2002), I installed my own system will all Toro hardware. When I fired up my system this year, 4 of my 9 valves failed and needed to be replaced (#53380 3/4" in-line valves). I had the system blown out by a local irrigation company in November. Granted, NY had a nasty winter this year, but a 50% failure rate seems awfully high. So, any ideas on what's going on? 3 of the failed valves would not open; the other opened, then would not close when that zone's timer expired. Do I need...
