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Originally Posted by Calisport
I had a soggy planter area that no one could figure out what was wrong until I dug deeper and found the pink pipe also with 2 gash marks in a new home. The builder sent out people to fix it so was lucky. There must be a lot of careless installation with landscape plumbing.
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At this point - I'm not surprised by that. It's an unfortunate situation that lands in the homeowner's pocket...on a monthly basis.
One of my neighbors enjoys perusing thru the public water consumption records and routinely mentions that many within our village are consuming 60,000 gallons and up of irrigation per month. That's just insane. He theorizes that these folks never look at their bill and/or just don't care. He's probably correct.
Part of my project includes gathering the GPM for each nozzle/each zone. Doing the math then running the zone and recording the before and after gallons listed on the meter. It won't tie 100% but it should be close enough. If it's way off then I'll assume I have an underground leak. At that point I'll call in a true professional top shelf leak hunter. At least I'll be able to tell that person which zone has the problem.
That zone data coupled with run schedules will yield a total gallons of usage per billing cycle (minus rain stops and duration changes) that I'll compare to each month's recorded billed gallons.
I have a master plan cause I can't stomach passively hemorrhaging money on a monthly basis!! Unknown leaks can end up costing lots of money!