In-ground sprinkler systems are available from professional contractors, but they’re not cheap, costing on average between $2,500 and $3,500 for a one-quarter acre lot. However, there are DIY sprinkler systems now available that can save you up to 40 percent over a professional installation...
If so, you've heard another one of the most common myths regarding fire sprinkler systems: We don't need them if we have a smoke detector. Some even believe that smoke detectors can put out fires. They cannot. Smoke detectors are designed to alert us to a potential fire, and in cases...
You can provide plants with efficientirrigationwith either a hose-end sprinkler orautomatic sprinkler systems. It's important to keep water as low to the ground as possible to avoid spreading it toward unnecessary locations and causing evaporation. There are also drip, micro-spray and bubbler syste...
It is truly luxurious to have a garden where sprinklers and drip irrigation are already present, but that’s not the case for most people with gardens. That means people spend a lot of time and wasted water on cobbled-together systems involving hoses, timers, and those awful oscillating spri...
You can use a Component on a pipe in Pipe Flow Expert to model the Sprinkler performance information, and the software will balance and solve the system, finding the operating flow rate and pressure loss through the component when taking account of all the other flow and pressures in the syst...
To the editor A fire began in an occupied room on the fifth floor of the Showboat Casino Hotel in Atlantic City on Wednesday April 24 at around 7 45 p m Three floors in total were evacuated and the building's smoke detectors and fire sprinklers were activated The sprinkler system worked ...
Bleeding, or "winterizing" your home’s sprinkler system is one way to protect your sprinkler system from freezing during winter. An easy way to do this is by draining the pipes and then blowing it out to dry with an air compressor.
This can be further reduced to once every other day on day 13 and again on day 16 to 1-inch of water per week. It’s crucial that the sprinkler heads in each zone are checked to ensure that the entire lawn is getting covered. During each “watering session,” be sure to water ...
a control valve, distribution lines and sprinkler heads. The straightforward design of most sprinkler systems makes troubleshooting operational issues easy. Whether you have a manual or automatic sprinkler system, there are a few components you ought to check immediately if your sprinkler system is not...
When it comes to impact sprinkler heads, learning how to adjust sprinkler head rotation is the easiest. You need to use an adjustment ring to turn the nozzle head clockwise (increase rotation) or counterclockwise (decrease rotation). The Best Sprinkler Systems You can Buy With Your Money ...