The Maintenance Shop – Handyman Services

I didn’t get very far yesterday in backflow tests or start-ups because of a backflow emergency in Avimor that took a few hours out of my day with travel time. Here is hoping for a better day tomorrow. I will post what I want my route to be today, but there seem to be no […]

I completed over 40 backflow test reports over the weekend and sent them off to customers and various water purveyors.  I don’t believe we will have as many this week as we work with more and more pressurized irrigation customers.  We may get 4-5 new ones a day for backflow testing only especially from Meridian […]

The B and D packages are kicking our butts and slowing us down, but need to be done.  In years past we would go through the system and make minor adjustments and then if any heads needed to be replaced we would swing back around and get them after we got everyone’s water on.  This […]

Oops! I was so tired when I wrote the blog post for yesterday that I forgot to publish it.  I just posted it a few minutes ago, but this one should show on top as the newest. Yesterday didn’t go completely as planned, so I didn’t get to all the backflow tests that I had […]

We had an emergency earlier yesterday, so Jacob wasn’t able to finish his route in Meridian so will finish it up today and add a few in the 83709.  Keep in mind we are still working city and well systems only for the time being while we wait for the water to flow for irrigation.  […]

Jacob worked in 4 different zip codes yesterday and was able to complete all but two.  I on the other hand spent the entire day in the 83646 doing backflow tests.  Out of all the tests I did yesterday, only two were without issue.  All but one passed, but all the others had something I […]

I spent the entire day yesterday on backflow tests, and barely made it out of Meridian.  It looks like I will have a repeat of the same thing today. Jacob is working his tail off on Package B and D requests on city systems.  He spent most of the day in the 83705 but still […]

We are still looking for a maintenance person to fill a spot we have open.  Primary duties will be sprinkler repairs, but knowledge of various other repair procedures would be helpful.  Our new guy won’t be starting for a few more weeks it looks like, so we scrambling to reach everyone as fast as we […]

It was a crazy week as it always is this time of year, and we will likely stay busy all summer with sprinkler and other repairs. We currently have 6 or 7 sprinkler main and drain repairs to do after we get control of our start-ups.  I know it may not make sense to some, […]