Yesterday did not go as well as we would have liked.\u00a0 Jesse’s truck broke down while working in Nampa, so I had to pull Jacob off his Meridian route to pick up his route, and in doing so we didn’t finish the area as planned.\u00a0 We will spend another day in the 83651 and start the 83687 at the same time.\u00a0 This will throw us off schedule a little, but I hope we can get back on track within a few days.<\/p>\n
I hope everyone with a backflow preventer has taken necessary precautions and pre-winterized the assemblies to protect them from the unseasonably cold weather we are currently having.\u00a0 That goes for emptying above ground filters, draining pumps, etc.\u00a0 This cold snap won’t last and it will be warming up again late this week I believe.<\/p>\n
We start later in the morning when the temperature has dropped to the teens to give it a chance to warm up a little.\u00a0 Not because of sprinkler systems, because anything underground is safe until mid-December usually, but many do not heed our warning and follow the instructions given on winterizing so we run into frozen galvanized piping that is above ground.\u00a0 When that happens, we have to heat up the pipe with a torch to melt the ice so we can get to the good stuff underneath.\u00a0 Also, compressors do not handle the cold very well.\u00a0 Sprinkler systems do much better than compressors.\u00a0 When pushing air, condensation can build up in our hoses and freeze giving us no air pressure to work with.\u00a0 I usually take the end of my hose and put it on the exhaust of my compressor and it melts quickly.\u00a0 Even with that it is a pain in the neck and wastes time we do not have to spare.\u00a0 We will wait until around 10 a.m. to start today and see what happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sprinkler-blowouts"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Steven Crist","author_link":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":8,"uagb_excerpt":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3351,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}