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Reasonable Expectations

Prior to the actual installation you will notice the utilities being flagged and painted throughout your property.

Upon arrival of our Phillips Lawn Sprinkler Company personnel, you can expect clean, polite and courteous behavior throughout their time on the project

The actual installation will require a good deal of excavation and disruption of the existing turf and grade, at the beginning.

The areas being installed will be installed, cleaned, and covered reasonably well at the end of each day.

Final cleanup will leave all heads and valve boxes straight and plumb, heads spaced approximately 3” from the curb, and the entire area should have ditch lines water settled, packed, and graded smooth and even with excess soil and debris removed from the site.

 The Installation Process

Utility locate requests are made approximately 3 to 5 days prior to starting the project.

An Irrigation Permit is acquired with the appropriate municipality.

Your Phillips Lawn Sprinkler Company Sales Professional then flags the location of the sprinkler heads throughout the property (by zone, with differently colored flags).

Your Sales Professional then meets with you and introduces you to the Project Foreman, he then meets with the Project Foreman to go over the system, in order to assure that the foreman understands what is necessary to perform in accordance with the commitments that have been made.

The Phillips Lawn Sprinkler Company Project Foreman then begins the actual installation by uncovering the water line, at the point of connection, and exposing (where necessary) the utilities that have been located that are along the expected ditch lines to help assure that we do not damage them.  (We are usually good about avoiding damage to utilities, but we sometimes damage them when the soil is extremely hard, when they have not been located correctly, or when there are additional utilities that are going to a neighbor’s property that might not have been located.)

The ditching process is then implemented.  This requires ditching throughout the area (an approximately 15’ grid for spray heads and 35’ grid for rotary heads).  This is probably the disruptive portion of the installation process and we attempt to only open up the portion of the project that we can reasonably expect to install and roughly cover by the end of the day.  Some of the ditching considerations include radiating in toward large trees in order to parallel the root system for minimal damage, and, in areas with established turf we ditch away from the backs of curbs or walks in order to leave established turf along the hard surfaces and minimize the affects of soil spillage. (this also allows for speedier recovery of the turf because there are two edges from which the turf can recover.

The ditches are then cleaned out and final hand digging is performed.

Piping of the system begins and can be done in a variety of sequences, but the standard sequence is as follows:

• Installation of the backflow prevention device at the point of connection to the water supply.

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• Piping of the main irrigation pressure line to each successive Irrigation control valve throughout the project.

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• Installation of the Irrigation control wiring, utilizing a 600V rated, UF, Solid Copper, Direct burial approved wire (16 ga. min.). (Usually following the main irrigation pressure line).

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• Installation of the lateral irrigation lines from the valve to the sprinkler head locations.

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• Standard recommended solvent welding (gluing) techniques are followed and the system is piped to keep water velocity at or below 5 feet per second through the piping system.

The actual sprinkler heads are then placed on the piping system utilizing threaded fitting to facilitate removal and repair.  The heads are set at the proper grade and perpendicular to the established grade and the soil is then compacted around the head to secure the positioning.

The soil is then placed back into the ditches exercising care not to allow rocks or any other hard, sharp objects, that might damage the piping, to rest against it.

The ditches are then filled partially with water and the packed firmly to compact the soil back into the ditches to prevent after settling of the soil.

The ditch lines are then cleaned, raked, and smoothed as close to the original condition as is possible.

The sprinkler heads are, at this point, flushed with water from the sprinkler system to flush out any soil or debris that may have been left in the piping and the proper nozzles are then installed, along with a filter, to provide the proper arc and radius for the area to be covered.

The Irrigation control valves are then wired into the Irrigation controller and set up in a logical sequence to water in progression around the property.

The final adjustment of the system is then made with attention being given to the direction and distance of throw for each head and keeping water from throwing directly onto windows and minimizing over spray.

We then inspect the operation of the backflow devise (if that is a responsibility assigned to us by that specific municipality) and call for inspection by the appropriate agency.

Upon completion of the installation your Phillips Lawn Sprinkler Company Sales Professional will arrange a time to get together to show you how to program the controller, the sequencing of the different stations, minor adjustment procedures, and how to turn off the water to the irrigation system in the event of a mainline leak or a control valve that is stuck on.

An Invoice for the proposal amount, and reflecting any changes that were made, is then presented for payment after we have demonstrated the operation of the completed system and shown that it is in accordance with the commitment that we at Phillips Lawn Sprinkler Company have made.

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