1000 Feet


My sprinkler system used 1000 ft of PVC pipe. That was every piece that was delivered. All that’s left unused is about 10 feet of pieces.


After two 8-hour plus days of working on the sprinkler system I now have all the lines and valves in place and glued together. I ran the system with no sprinkler heads attached to flush out any sand and make sure I had cemented all the connections. Everything worked. Now it is time to attach sprinkler heads and bury everything.


This is definitely not rocket science. It is a lot of up and down and kneeling and a real workout for the hands and shoulders and knees. It was, however, very satisfying to turn on the pump and open the valves to each zone one-by-one and see the system working as designed.


After everything is finished and checked out manually then I have the fun of installing and hooking up the automatic timer. I expect it will take a while to get all the sprinkler heads set properly.

It’s going to be strange not dragging hoses any more.