UPDATE 10:15 A.M.<\/p>\n
I sent Jesse out on an exploratory run to see how blowouts would be and he determined it would not be a good day for blowouts mostly due to road conditions in the subdivisions, but also because many sprinkler valve boxes are covered up and can’t be located.\u00a0 It isn’t worth the time and energy to go to each one to see if we can do it or not under the current conditions.\u00a0 We will resume tomorrow with the same routes.\u00a0 Much of the snow should melt off today, and it is supposed to be in the 40’s for most of the week without precipitation, so everything should be back to normal tomorrow.<\/p>\n
END OF UPDATE<\/p>\n
%$$%##^%&$#^#$ SNOW!<\/p>\n
I am not a fan of snow.\u00a0 I grew up in Indiana, and we got hit HARD because of weather coming down from Canada across the Great Lakes, with no mountains to slow it down.\u00a0 I shoveled more snow by the time I was 18 than most who have lived in the Boise area for 50 years.\u00a0 It would get so cold that if the city had to do maintenance on the sewer system they needed a large air compressor as we use for blowouts to attach a jackhammer to clear the ice around manhole covers.\u00a0 I could climb out my second-story bedroom window and slide down the snowdrifts, run back upstairs and do it again, and again.<\/p>\n
However, snow does insulate the ground keeping sprinkler pipes insulated.\u00a0 It’s just a pain for us to have to work in the snow.\u00a0 The sprinkler systems themselves do fine.\u00a0 It’s our equipment and bodies that take a beating.\u00a0 I had to disconnect my air hose 4 different times yesterday to thaw the ice build-up in my hose so I could get the air pressure needed to do the blowouts.\u00a0 The only thing frozen yesterday was my toes and hose…….<\/p>\n
Even with the issues of frozen condensation in our hoses, the day went pretty smooth.\u00a0 We are now down to 19 left in the Meridian 83642, which we will finish up when we make our final sweep around the valley.\u00a0 We are still hoping to be finished by Friday.\u00a0 (Fingers crossed)\u00a0 According to my calculations, we only need to do 39 a day to be done by Friday.\u00a0 If all goes well, that shouldn’t be a problem.<\/p>\n
Something funny happened today.\u00a0 I went to a customer’s house and knocked on the door and told the guy who answered that I was there to blow out his sprinklers.\u00a0 His buddy, who was visiting, said, “Dude! You can’t blow out your sprinklers now.\u00a0 They’re all frozen and it will blow up all your sprinkler pipes.”\u00a0 My customer answered back, “Dude, did you sleep through science class?\u00a0 The ground ain’t cold enough yet.”\u00a0 The funny part is I get yelled at by my wife when I have said the EXACT same thing to customers.\u00a0 Sometimes I let my mouth get the better of me.\u00a0 It was quite nice to hear someone else say what I was thinking.\u00a0 Anyway, his friend watched in amazement as the water came out of all the sprinkler heads.\u00a0 It was beautiful……….<\/p>\n
We will have 3 machines working in the 83709 today, and those we have on our routes have been sent texts and emails to let them know.\u00a0\u00a0 We may not finish everything on the routes today because of weather conditions, (mostly road conditions) but if we don’t, we will get to those on Tuesday with the remaining 83709.\u00a0 (Our calendar isn’t updating again on our website for some reason, so be sure to keep an eye on this blog for any changes.)<\/p>\n
Here are the streets for today:<\/p>\n
Jesse<\/strong> Jacob<\/strong> Steve<\/strong> UPDATE 10:15 A.M. I sent Jesse out on an exploratory run to see how blowouts would be and he determined it would not be a good day for blowouts mostly due to road conditions in the subdivisions, but also because many sprinkler valve boxes are covered up and can’t be located.\u00a0 It isn’t worth the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3498","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":2,"uagb_excerpt":"UPDATE 10:15 A.M. I sent Jesse out on an exploratory run to see how blowouts would be and he determined it would not be a good day for blowouts mostly due to road conditions in the subdivisions, but also because many sprinkler valve boxes are covered up and can’t be located.\u00a0 It isn’t worth the…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3505,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.treasurevalleyrepairs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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