Landon's job notes
Problembad drip line zone, many previous repairs resulted in a mess of random lines and poor watering.
Solutionran a brand new valve and drip line to multiple beds around the front of the house.
Cost$750
As Landon wrote them after the job, spelling tidied.
When patching stops being a repair
Drip line is easy to patch: cut out the bad section, push in a coupling, done. Do that enough times and a zone can end up with mismatched lines, extra tees and stretches that get water while others don't. Each patch makes sense at the time. Together they make a zone that can't water evenly.
At that point another patch doesn't help. Starting over with one valve and one consistent run of line does.
What was done
A new valve was installed and new drip line was run to the beds across the front of the house. The first photo is the morning, with work under way in the front bed and pulled line already on the lawn behind it. The second is old drip line pulled from the beds.
This was a bed zone. It is a different job from a foundation drip line, which runs along the slab to keep the soil under the house evenly moist.
Should a drip irrigation zone be repaired or replaced?
If it has been patched repeatedly and still waters unevenly, replacing it is usually the better buy. On this Southlake job a new valve and new drip line to the front beds came to $750.
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