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    Default sprinkler system winterization?

    Does anyone not do this in winter?

    I dont know if its necessary or not?

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    Its a good idea, you don't want to burst your lines and plastic sprayers.

    My parents didn't do it the first year in our place and one line burst that we had to dig up to repair and most of our plastic sprayers broke from the water freezing and expanding in them over winter/spring.

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    Always do this.....what's the issue? It only coast $75 on average.
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    You just blow it out with a compressor no

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    we rarely do it now

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    Originally posted by schocker
    You just blow it out with a compressor no
    Never done it but I assume so. There's probably a blow down hook up location.
    From what I've seen on commercial sites, it takes about 30 min.

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    Mine is fed off the tap so I built an adapter to fit the hose bib and blow it out with my air compressor. Been doing it this way for years and never had a problem.

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    I just hook my compressor to a fitting I installed in the supply line, manually open all the valves, and let it run for a few minutes.

    Paying $75 is ridiculous, lol. It isn't like you need to get ALL the water out of the line, so long as the lines aren't completely filled, then the expansion from the water freezing isn't going to burst anything.
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    Im thinking of not doing it this year. I dont think any of my neighbors do it and all our sections are sloped so the water runs away from all the heads.

    If i had a compressor I could probably hook it in to the outside tap that feeds the system and blow it out myself although no idea how to do this.
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    Originally posted by Tik-Tok
    I just hook my compressor to a fitting I installed in the supply line, manually open all the valves, and let it run for a few minutes.

    Paying $75 is ridiculous, lol. It isn't like you need to get ALL the water out of the line, so long as the lines aren't completely filled, then the expansion from the water freezing isn't going to burst anything.

    you can justify this way buying compressor as it will pay for itself after 3 -4 years.

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    We bought a new house last year and I didn't get around to calling someone to winterize the sprinklers. Everything was fine in the spring.

    However, this year I think I'm going to call someone to get it done.

    I do want to try and do it myself, but I'm just not sure where to start. I don't know how it was set up, nor do i know where I should hook up the compressor.

    Kijiji has a few guys doing it for $50. Can something go horribly wrong?

    Thanks,
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    Even if you don't burst a line the first year, the ice expansion in the lines can still weaken the material and lead to failures in future years. Good insurance to do it, IMO.

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    Diy.
    YouTube how to do it with your sprinkler mode.

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    I am in the irrigation business (large commercial) and a blow out is cheap insurance. Most homes have Poly Ethylene lines which can take some freezing but as some other posters have pointed out there are other brittle components in the system namely your sprinkler heads and valves/manifold.

    It is cheap insurance to do this as service rates are $70-$100.00/hour in the industry. Chasing leaks is a PITA when they are from frost breaks as when you fix 1 section, you reintroduce pressure and the next component fails.

    Not to mention the damage you do to the landscape from excavation.

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