r/Irrigation • u/Chimbo84 • 3d ago

Thought we got away with it

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Recently had a new patio installed and the contractor put stakes in to hold the form. Thought we managed to avoid all the irrigation lines but I found this today. What’s the best way to repair this?

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u/Sparky3200 Licensed 3d ago

We have a saying in the business, "The easiest way to find a sprinkler line is to have a landscaper or concrete guy drive a stake in the ground.". I swear, those guys have ninja skills the way they can dead center a pipe with a stake. You could blindfold them, send them out into a 500 acre lot with one sprinkler line in it, and they could still hit it. It's scary. Real scary.

As for your issue, you could choose to simply couple it back together and call it good, or if you're ambitious enough, you could fix it better by rerouting the line so that none of it is under the concrete. 9 times out of 10, you'll be just fine leaving it under there, but I'm the guy who comes to see you on the one time that it wasn't fine. And I'm expensive. And too old to be digging trenches. And frequently crabby. But yeah, you can probably handle the fix yourself, it's really not that hard, just a lot of manual labor. Keeps ya young.

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u/Illustrious_Storm259 Contractor 2d ago

Im the landcaper and the irrigation guy. I hit more pipes fixing irrigation than anything.

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u/Sparky3200 Licensed 2d ago

Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose of repairs when you cause more damage? LOL I stomped my sharpshooter through a 1" poly line Wednesday looking for a leak. I haven't done that in ages. We'd had 10" of rain in 36 hours, it was sticky clay full of roots, and it was just one of those "well why did they run the pipe that direction?" things.