Episode 004 1995 - 96 Season
| Fireplace Installation | Steel Framing | Cutting Board | Fabrics | Entry Doors | Lawn Sprinkler Repair | How Do I Qualify? | |
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Michael Holigan : The performance of your lawn sprinkler system can actually decrease over time. Due to erosion and grass growing up around the heads, you can get less and less spray of your water, so that defeats the whole purpose of having a lawn sprinkler, but it's not expensive to fix and you can do it yourself.
Al Carrell : Absolutely. There are two ways to go about it. First of all, you can get sprinkler heads that are bigger. That would take care of the problem, but cost more money. The other way is to get a riser that will bring your present sprinkler head up and we'll show you what we mean by that. Next we have to take off the head here and you do that by turning counter clockwise, and if it's hard to get started, and most of 'em will be, then you want to use a pair of pliers just to get it started. There it comes.
M.H.: Okay now, in this case, the riser did not come along with it, so that means it's still stuck in the water line there in the ground, but there is a way to get that out without digging up the yard.
A.C.: Right. That's with a little tool. It's called a stub wrench and you just feel around until you get it engaged down there in the little stub that's sticking up.
M.H.: And again, turn counter clockwise. It should come right out. And this little tool only costs $5.00 and it beats digging up the yard around the whole water head there.
A.C.: And there's that little devil.
M.H.: Okay, now this one just wasn't quite long enough. So what we need is one, let's try maybe a 1/2 inch longer.
A.C.: Okay.
M.H.: Looks like we got it right there.
A.C.: Screw that right on in there.
M.H.: Yeah, I'll put this in. Just get it hand tight, about as tight as you can get it. Don't put a tool on it. There's no reason to try to strip it out.
A.C.: All right.
M.H.: Now we're much higher now and it wasn't expensive to do. We added a 35 cent riser and our tool was only $5.00.
A.C.: Without your lawnmower running, roll it over the sprinkler head and be sure it doesn't hit.
Episode 004 1995 - 96 Season
| Fireplace Installation | Steel Framing | Cutting Board | Fabrics | Entry Doors | Lawn Sprinkler Repair | How Do I Qualify? | |
To order a Video Tape, call 1-800-TO-BUILD and ask for Episode #004.