Thank you for visiting the Hessenauer Sprinkler Repair and Irrigation blog and website. Summer is right around the corner and maintaining your irrigation sprinkler system is an effective way to avoid over-irrigation, reduce wasted water and pollution from run-off and improve plant health. Today we would like to provide our online readers with a short start-up summer irrigation checklist.
Landscape irrigation can use more than half of the water provided to the household by utilities. A poorly maintained irrigation system means that much of this water never reaches its intended source due to runoff, evaporation and deep watering below the root zone.
Maintenance is the key to preventing costly emergency repairs in the future. At a minimum, a check of the irrigation system should be performed twice seasonally. Once at the beginning of the season when the system is first turned on and again halfway through the season. Ideally, the system should be checked on a monthly basis.
Basics of irrigation system maintenance include:
- Update the date and time
- Replace backup batteries
- Inspect the controller function
- Optimize schedules to reflect the current season
- Check system damage by turning on independent zones
- Test wire connections including rain, wind and soil moisture sensors
Hessenauer Sprinkler Repair and Irrigation offer our customers in Orlando and surrounding communities maintenance service to keep their sprinkler irrigation systems running smoothly. Bookmark our blog and website for more news, tips and advice concerning sprinkler irrigation systems. Contact us today if you are in the Central Florida area to discuss a sprinkler irrigation system project or scheduled maintenance at 407-302-2227 today.