How to Install / Fix Your Sprinkler Heads Correctly

Hope y'all having a good week or weekend! Oh wait, if you are watching this then maybe it's not going as planned. At any rate, welcome back to a new episode of The Sprinkler Channel where we talk about how to install your sprinkler heads (or fix them) the right way so that they don't keep breaking and you can actually enjoy your weekends or holidays or have a nice sprinkler system from the get go. Here you will learn the way the professionals do it and know how to do it yourself. It is the same design whether you are doing a pop-up head or a Rain Bird 5000 Rotor head (they will just have a 3/4" funny pipe elbow - see part 2 of Rain Bird 5000 video). I have repaired too many sprinkler heads stuck on pvc pipe that just end up breaking the first time anything touches it. Don't be that guy that does it the wrong way. Get the right parts and do it right. You will be happier in the end. If you are installing a new sprinkler system, then you will have all your sprinkler heads the right way. Just remember it is better to give yourself a little more flex pipe than not enough. Also remember to NOT position your sprinkler heads to where they are right against a concrete corner or sidewalk etc. Leave a 1/2" gap or so between the edge and the edge of your sprinkler head. If you ever edge or have some edge your lawn you will avoid breaks and you will be able to make sure you can set you sprinkler head perfectly flat when the time comes. Ok that is all I have for you, watch and go do. Happy sprinkler working everyone!