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Old 12-21-2021, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Stephen13 View Post
There's probably a simple and logical answer to my situation. I'm expanding my concrete patio (all permits and approvals are done) but there is a sprinkler head that needs to be removed. So I dug it out, capped the one waterline, and now a head in the same zone doesn't pop up when the zone is turned on. I believe there's 3 heads in the zone; one works, one doesn't, and is removed. It doesn't make sense to me.
The main distribution pipes for irrigation usually are purple color since that is the designated color for non-potable water. Black flexible pipe that looks corrugated is used to connect the spray head with the irrigation headers. This done so that t he heads can be adjusted as the sod layer gets thicker. Sometimes this flexible pipe is used to locate a spray head further from the others in a particular zone. Sometimes spray heads near each other can be on different zones. I suggest that you manually run through all zones to see if the mystery spray head pops up when a different zone is turned on.
The modification that you described should not have cut water supply to that spray head since you only worked on a "dead end".