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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Sprinklers and the winter
Are you supposed to do anything special with your sprinkler system before winter? I vaguely recall when I bought my house that the sprinker system was "off" and couldn't be tested by the inspector guy, but I have no idea how to turn the water off. My system stays in the "off" mode but am I supposed to shut the water off somehow? It's already freezing here so I'm probably too late... geez, I haven't even put away my garden hoses yet. I'm terrible.
Re: Sprinklers and the winter
It might depend on where you live and how cold it gets, but we have to have ours "blown out" every year, where a guy comes and uses a big air compressor which blows all of the water out of the lines in the system so that they don't freeze and burst or break/crack. He usually comes in early Nov, depending on how cold of a fall we're having, and it costs about $50.
If it doesn't get terribly cold where you live though you are probably okay. I forgot to bring my hoses in this year too, and now they're covered in snow. Oops.
As the previous poster stated, you need to prep your sprinkler system before a hard freeze and blow out the water lines. I recommend that you contact a landscaping/sprinkler company and have them look at you system, blow it out and winterize it for you. I also suggest that they teach you how to do this yourself nad educate you on how to care for and run your system as well as how to shut the water lines off in case of an emergency.