Late last night I fixed the inside leak on the pipe going to the sprinkler system. This morning I got up and went out and took apart the backflow preventer and took off the part that was leaking. Put some more teflon tape on it and tightened it back up and then sweated it back on. Waited for a few and then turned the water back on. No leaks so far. Watered the front yard and still no leak.

Well last night I tweaked all the sprinkler heads to they do not hit the house and do not over water areas to much. I had to put larger heads on most of the sprinklers because I have so much water pressure now. Could have put 5 heads to a zone without a problem. I still have one zone free to do with what I want. Just need to dig the leftover zone up sometime. I still need to dig one sprinkler head up and get it positioned a bit better. Hopefully I will have time to do that this evening. I still need to fix the small leak outside on the over flow preventer. I just found a leak inside last night also. Came in after I was soaked because taylor was having a blast in the sprinkler system and getting me wet at the same time. Found a puddle of water in the corner of the basement. Not to bad. Didn’t get any of the computer stuff wet but was getting close. There is a leak now just as the line runs outside. I will need to resweat that joint tonight if time permits. I do not want to run the system until that is fixed for sure. Can’t believe it. Was fun, guess just running it for about 2 hours worked something free. hopeful that will be a very fast fix. Just add a little soder and that should do it.

Got home and it was so nice out I decided to mow the lawn. Didn’t really need to move the whole thing but it didn’t hurt. Only a few places had a good amount of grass growth. I noticed a few weeds starting up also. Think it is time to put some weed-b-gone down again. Was good to clean up the lawn a little bit from the winter effects. Was able to fix the leak on the valve in the basement for the sprinkler system. Just had to tighten down the connecting a full rotation. As for the leak outside. It still is giving me some problems. I am going to have to either try the epoxy I bought or just redo the connection altogether. Not sure which one I will do. Might just break down and try to take the connection about and re-sweat it back on after I fix the threaded connection. If it is not raining tonight I will try to work on it.

Well after putting a good wrap of that black plumbers tape on the threaded connection, I think I will need to stop by and get that epoxy stuff. The tape seems to do ok but after about 15 mins of running the system, I had a small bulge coming out of the tape. I might be able to put another few wraps around that area but I do not think this will work to good. I think I will go ahead and get the epoxy tomorrow and give that a try. Hopefully that will work. Otherwise I might have to get another backflow preventor.

Was asking them if there was an easy way to fix my slow leak on my backflow preventor outside my house. They said there were two ways. Said to try this tape stuff first. Looks like a very think electrical tape. Rap that around the pipe a few times and that stops many leaks they said. The other to try next is a two part epoxy. This will be permanent. I will get that next if this tape does not work. The epoxy you just cut a small part off of the roll you buy and then work the two parts together. Kind of a clay like substance. Then you put that stuff on the leaking part, try to get it very dry. Then wait for about 30 mins and I guess it hardens to almost steel strength from the packaging. So I will try the tape stuff tonight when I get home. I would like to work on tweaking the sprinkler system for a bit tonight. Since I have it hooked to 3/4 inch pipe now I seem to have more pressure to the heads so the spray is going much further than last year. I am going to have to change some of the nozzles and tighten down the screws on some of them also. I think a few adjustments in the front and side yard, back yard I think I will just need to make a few adjustments also. The side yard next to the garage I will make a few adjustments and then I need to adjust and stabilize the one head I had to change last year at the end of the year. It has tilted a bit through the winter so I will need to put some top soil around it and get it aimed correctly. I have talked to the neighbor on that side and he doesn’t mind that I am water some of his yard. Didn’t think he would mind at all.