Sean worked all day long trying to get our sprinkler system up and going. He rang my doorbell at 9am to help him find all the buried components. I know where most of them are, but the grass has grown over a lot of the valves and shutoffs and this makes it interesting. I used my flounder gig to probe one that I had seen only once before. I did find it. The wiring was laid into the trench with the pvc pipe. The shell in the soil has likely cut into the wiring and is causing our problems.
Sean dug a lot of holes and trenches, but could not find the breaks in the wiring. To add to this, concrete was poured at the end of the swimming pool two years ago with no regard for the water system beneath.
Someone walked off with Sean's locator tool and a new one is $900. He will have to buy one to locate all the buried wires and pipes. He called the original installer, Mr. kissinger, to see if he had any schematics left. That didn't work out. Mr. Kissinger said he had not been paid the last time he worked out here and had disposed of the plans for our system. We had a copy in the file cabinet in the maintenance shed, but that too is gone.
We have a hodge podge of water lines and sprinklers on the complex. The original wastewater system that we used to treat our own sewage still has water lines buried all over the place and all sizes. We then converted to a higher pressure system of well water with manual valves and parts of the old system. The automatic system inside the traffic area was installed about eight years ago. What we have now is a hybrid mess.
Sean is going to evaluate the entire system and get a bid together for J.R. I hope we can revamp the entire system and convert completely to well water and fully automated.
In the meantime we really could use a good rain!