This is our 23rd season of doing sprinkler blowouts, and have done more than 25,000 blowouts in this valley.\u00a0 It is also the 10th anniversary of when we started using our blog to reach our customers quickly and efficiently.\u00a0 It is still the BEST way we can reach a LARGE number of customers at one time without fail.<\/p>\n
If all goes well, we will be starting sprinkler blowouts on October 5.\u00a0 Since most pressurized irrigation districts will not be shut down yet, we will begin the season with those with city or well systems as we did last year.\u00a0 We highly recommend though, that when you are finished with watering for the season and you use a city or well system, you winterize your backflow preventers following the instructions on our site.\u00a0 Doing so will protect your backflow in case we get a quick freeze really early in the season like we did last year.<\/p>\n
According to their website, the Nampa and Meridian Irrigation District will be shutting down their pumps on October 6, but it will take a few days for the system to drain.\u00a0 We currently do not have any information regarding the other irrigation districts in the area.<\/p>\n
If you receive a notice as to when the pressurized irrigation is going to shut down in your particular subdivision, please comment here on this post and we will adjust our schedule accordingly.<\/p>\n
Speaking of schedules, we have added a fourth machine to our arsenal, so this year we are going to try and keep one machine in Meridian the entire season switching back and forth between the 83642 and 83646.\u00a0 34%-36% of our total completed blowouts are coming from Meridian, and many of our cancellations are as well.\u00a0 We will still rotate other machines throughout the valley including Meridian because I doubt one machine can keep up with Meridian by itself.\u00a0 At the time this post was written we have 125 sprinkler blowouts in Meridian, which under ideal circumstances is about 6-7 days of work for one machine.\u00a0 We expect 3 times that number or more.<\/p>\n
I am looking for someone to run a machine for me personally so I can spend more time in the office taking care of the onslaught of blowouts we receive.\u00a0 With four machines running, it will be much harder for me to work on blowouts all day and then come home and do paperwork and routes for 4 machines.\u00a0 If someone isn’t able to go out on a particular day, I can then take over for them so those scheduled don’t get pushed to another day.\u00a0 We need someone with a vehicle that can pull a compressor, work with another technician for a few days to learn the job, and then go out on their own.\u00a0 Each technician rarely drives more than 12-15 miles per day.\u00a0 We get SO many blowouts that most are quite close to each other.\u00a0 A technician is rarely in his\/her vehicle more than 3-4 minutes before arriving at the next stop.\u00a0 If you, or someone you know is interested in a good-paying fall job send me an email and I will get back to you.<\/p>\n
We are starting to work on our schedule, but since only about 375 sprinkler blowout requests have come in at the time of this post, it will be hard to put together.\u00a0 We will likely do much of the scheduling on the weekend right before blowouts start.\u00a0 This schedule is subject to change, and will likely change several times over the 7-8 week period we will be doing blowouts.\u00a0 Daily updates will be posted on this blog as we have done over the last 10 years quite successfully.\u00a0 Texts and emails will also be sent the night before, but since we have no control on cell phone and email providers, the BEST place to look to see if you are on our route for the day has always been and will continue to be this blog.<\/p>\n
That’s all for now.\u00a0 The next post will likely be at midnight October 5, with our route for the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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