The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is warning homeowners to check their sprinkler systems after a recent increase in thefts ...

Home irrigation systems are incredibly convenient; they make it easy to keep your lawn and garden lush and green without much physical labor. However, a sprinkler system can develop problems over time ...

What to do once you have a sprinkler system installed on your property: buy a sprinkler control system or make your own? The latter, obviously. [danaman] was determined to hack together a cheap, ...

The main drain of an automatic sprinkler system is actually the water flow control valve. It's important to test the functioning of this value at least once per year to ensure proper water flow and ...

Freezing temps can destroy your sprinkler system overnight. here's how to drain it before it's too late.

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...

While winterizing helps protect your sprinkler system, problems can occur during a deep freeze. This is how to tell your sprinkler system is damaged by a freeze.

Lately, there seems to have been several damaging events involving sprinkler systems. It should be noted by all owners of buildings equipped with automatic sprinklers that these systems are equipped ...