July is smart irrigation month, encouraging people to sprinkler Irrigate wisely. I am sorry to inform the Sky Drop smart water controller company has gone out of business. There smart water controller was state of the art. Not to be concerned there are other Smart controller brands to choose from. I prefer to stick with […]
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When threading together PVC plastic pipe joints on a sprinkler valve repair you may wonder which should I use on the threads, teflon tape or teflon paste? The answer is a little of both is best. It is best to apply a small thin layer of Teflon paste on the male pipe thread then wrap […]
I was at a customers property last week repairing a broken PVC sprinkler lateral line. It was in the rear of their house about 100 feet at the bottom of a hillside. The customer had tried to dig it up before I got there and succeeded at filling the pipeline full of mud and debriss. […]
In the May 2017 issue of irrigation and green industry magazine they mentioned me in their article about wireless irrigation controllers and their benefits. Back in the early part of the last century an exciting invention called the “wireless” was the word of the day! Radio was not only brand new, it was transformative… suddenly […]
I have found on some of the Sky Drop Smart sprinkler control timer installations that it’s beneficial to install a TP-Link Wi-Fi booster. This will enable your control timer a good connection to your Wi-Fi router signal. On some properties where the Internet modem is on one side of the house and the Smart control […]
