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Three years of fixing my own sprinklers and I finally saved enough to redo the whole system
Last month I finished replacing all the old pipes in my front yard off Juan Tabo. It took me three summers of patching leaks to finally learn how to trench and glue PVC right. That first year I flooded the neighbor's driveway twice and felt like a real idiot. Anyone else find that DIY irrigation work just takes forever to get the hang of?
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simonl112mo ago
Ngl, the real game changer for me was switching to poly pipe with compression fittings instead of PVC. No glue, no waiting, and if you mess up you just pull it apart and try again.
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grace_knight701mo ago
Wait, hold up. "No glue, no waiting"? That sounds like witchcraft honestly. I've been burned too many times by PVC glue drying before I can get a fitting on straight, and now you're telling me there's a way around that? @xena373 I bet the heat thing depends on the poly, like some of that black poly irrigation pipe is rated for way higher temps than you'd think, I've run hot water through it before without issues. I'm just shocked nobody told me about this compression fitting magic earlier, I've got a whole shed full of PVC primer and glue that's probably going to sit there forever now.
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