BWW Project #29 Move Lawn Sprinkler

 BWW Project #29:  Move Lawn Sprinkler

This place has an underground watering system throughout the extensive garden areas and we have not yet even turned on the valve to it for two reasons: 1) it has been raining like a monsoon all spring and summer so far, and 2) we are afraid that when we do put pressure to it, it will show us a bunch of geysers going up into the air and a few more repair projects.  So we have been putting that off as a lower priority

However, there is one head right to the south of the man-door in the back of the garage and it is positioned right in the way of our top priority project, re-routing rain and runoff water somehow around that flower bed and around the garage instead of building up a puddle and then running through the middle of the garage.

This head has to be moved because we are going to build an eight foot trough out to the corner and then another eight foot trough out to where the water can be released around the garage corner.  The existing head would be right in this trough, so it has to be moved a foot or so south.  No big deal.

I dug down along the vertical line until I could clear away all the dirt from the place where it screws into the main underground line.  This was about 16 inches down.  Then I dug back a foot or so and cleared it all of roots, dirt, and debris.  In doing this I uncovered two pressure treated posts that go horizontally.  We don't want to dig these up all the way, so I sawed them off with the skilsaw.  The cuts didn't have to be neat because the whole thing will be buried again.

Then, down to Ace Hardware to buy a riser, a coupling, a tee, and an extension.  These just screw together so that the sprinkler head can come back up behind the barrier that we made of 4 x 6 pressure treated.

Then cover it all up again and tamp the dirt solid.  We should be good to go.  Adjustments to the coverage area of the spr

inkler can be made later when we decide to fire up that system.