[retiredguy123]

Originally Posted by jrref

Good to hear. I was hoping this would be the case based on the design.

What always makes me chuckle is when talking about any maintenance item, everyone always goes to the cheapest solution whether it works or not. Our irrigation systems are one of the high maintenance items here in the Villages mainly due to the terrible pond water used in the newer areas. I've seen this pond water clog up the irrigation valves causing the valve not to turn on or not shut off or stay open slightly causing a high water bill. I've seen my neighbors going to 30-40 sprinkler heads and cleaning the filter only for those filters to clog up a day later. All this said, I've installed an irrigation filter, these Grassholes. I've updated all my sprinkler heads, installed a Rachio controller and even installed some sprinkler bodies with the check valve in them to prevent all the water draing to the lowest head to save water. Yes, I've measured several gallons of water waste every time I've watered. For $3.15 per body one time expense, that's water savings. Did I spend a couple hundred dollars making all these improvements? Yes but have you seen how much these irrigation guys charge to do simple fixes? Now I just get a beer and watch my neighbors endlessly fool with their systems or watch the expressions on my neighbors faces when they get the bill from the irrigation repair guy.

One way to reduce the time it takes to clean the plastic filters on sprinkler nozzles is to just throw the filters away. They are useless. Why do you need a filter to protect a 2 dollar nozzle?