Appreciate the response.
The curb is not very high. I would say 4 inches and it is sloped. They are not the curbs from years ago where if you hit it with your car you knew it. You'll feel a bump if you drive up on these, but it's not much. Without having a picture, I would say it's like a gentle 40 degree angle max from street to curb height. Not like the old ones that were 90 degrees.
Is the contractor right that these things can be run over. Again, I don't want to paint a picture of this being a high traveled road, but I've got 9 heads on the front and on weekends or some days when a neighbor has a get together, someone may park there. It's fairly rare though. Probably the most people that would park there would do so when we have people over.
I don't want to offend the guy, because he's been great to work with and like I said he will change them if I absolutely want him to. He's done this on all of his installs other than those in Iowa City, Iowa (they won't let you bury anything between the center line of the street frontage and the sidewalk. He prefers it this way. I just want to know if I should be concerned. What if the city needed to work on the street in 10 years?? They always dig up the curbs. That's a far out event however since the area is very new.
You said "No-water-in-the-street favors heads by the curbs, and the precipitation by the curb might be a bit heavier this way" I believe that's why he likes to do it this way. He claims I won't be spraying over into the street and any overspray that may get on the sidewalk would drain back onto my grass.
I buy those arguments. I'm just worried that everytime a car is parked out there I'm going to feel like I need to check to make sure they are sitting on my sprinkler heads.
Hey thanks for the response. I really appreciate it.