Home beautification is
a wide concept and it goes as far as ensuring that lawns are well taken good
care of. Every morning or evening, depending on your watering plan, you will
want to give your flowers nourishment and this means sprinkling some gallons of
water so that they do not wilt away.
Also, you do not want
to damage you expensive sprinkler system mosquito control at the onset of winter due to water freezing in the pipes.
There is no doubt sprinkler systems can cause you a fortune and by extension inconveniences
and overhead costs when one is no longer working. So, you want to make sure
yours is working optimally all the year round.
Buying a lawn sprinkler
is one thing and maintaining it is another thing altogether. Depending on
seasons of the years, you will need to learn what type maintenance is required.
In this article, we take a case in point of winter. Often referred to as lawn
sprinkler winterization, this is the concept where you must make sure your
system is in good condition even though it will not be used most of the time.
The question is, how
are you supposed to go about lawn sprinkler winterization? Well, let’s take a
look.
First and foremost, you
will need to have a commercial air compressor to achieve the best results when
it comes to winterization of your system. During winter, the tendency of
watering pipe cracking is something that has always causes many losses.
The concept behind this
is that water gets into the pipe and because if very cold weather, it freezes,
expands and bulges the pipes with cracking being always in the offing. This is
even worse with plastic pipes which cannot withstand the pressure from within
cause by frozen water but to burst.
With a compressor,
winterizing your system should start by turning off the water valves even at
the main supply before you can blow off air and water out of the system. If you
own a plastic sprinkler, seeking the services of a professional would save you
a lot on risks.
