kissiffer4
Member
Hi,
I recently started up my sprinkler system and having got past the first hurdle (replacing a valve), the backflow preventer is now causing problems by leaking a ton of water through the top. Strange thing is, it is only on certain sprinkler zones that it is happening. I cycled through each zone and they initially all caused the same behavior of making the backflow preventer leak, however, on a few of the zones, the leaking dissipated after a minute or so and the sprinklers worked correctly as normal. However, on the other zones, it seems like there isn't enough pressure to get the sprinkler heads to pop up and the backflow preventer keeps on spraying a lot of water...and it isn't dissipating at all. Could it be the sprinkler heads are just stuck or might there be broken pipes causing a problem?
Any suggestions much appreciated as you guys already gave me great advice on replacing my faulty valve
Thanks!
I recently started up my sprinkler system and having got past the first hurdle (replacing a valve), the backflow preventer is now causing problems by leaking a ton of water through the top. Strange thing is, it is only on certain sprinkler zones that it is happening. I cycled through each zone and they initially all caused the same behavior of making the backflow preventer leak, however, on a few of the zones, the leaking dissipated after a minute or so and the sprinklers worked correctly as normal. However, on the other zones, it seems like there isn't enough pressure to get the sprinkler heads to pop up and the backflow preventer keeps on spraying a lot of water...and it isn't dissipating at all. Could it be the sprinkler heads are just stuck or might there be broken pipes causing a problem?
Any suggestions much appreciated as you guys already gave me great advice on replacing my faulty valve
Thanks!