It’s that time of year when people start to think about summer, mowing the lawn, and irrigation systems. Well, at least it is here in Florida.
Getting irrigation systems in working order before the hot, humid days of summer roll around is generally a primary project for many homeowners in the south. Things happen over the winter, the system doesn’t get used, and we need it for the summer months, so we start to fix any and all issues right about now.
In this post, we’ll talk about how to replace a broken sprinkler head. Although we ran into a slight challenge, this is generally a very simple project for any homeowner to take on. You simply unscrew the old sprinkler head (by hand) and screw the new one on — after wrapping the threads with Teflon tape.
Normally, that’s all there is to the project. For us, we had a 3/4″ sprinkler head that we needed to attach to a 1/2″ irrigation line. That just meant that we needed a reduction bushing that we show you in the video.
Material List
- New sprinkler head — this will vary based on the type of head you’re replacing. For this project, we were replacing a large area, rotating head. Although we’ve used XXXX brand in the past, we decided to try the “K rain” brand this time, just to see how it works. The “K rain” K8000 head was the least expensive of the large area rotating sprinkler heads available at our local store and it also had the largest maximum distance. Cost: $8.99
- Teflon tape — also known as PTFE tape, you will need this for almost any plumbing project that involves threaded connections. Cost: Pack of 5=$2.98
Optional/necessary: We found that we also needed a flush-reducing bushing that added $0.66 to the costs mentioned, above.
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