Homemade Sprinkler Manifold
Wed, 02/13/2008 - 23:16 — Frugaldad
This was from the mandatory sprinkler work due to the renovation but it is a great example of creating and frugality. Instead of spending over $50 to buy a 4 port sprinkler manifold, I built my own for about $7 in parts. Look at it. It is like yard art. Yard art that gets placed in the ground in a box and never seen. A nice piece of hydrological engineering like this deserves to be seen - thanks for indulging.
Here is another shot of the manifold - connected to the zone pipes for the 5 zones.
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great only one question.
great only one question. what happens when the vavle goes bad. where is the unions.
no problem
Unless you fail to blow out your sprinklers and the valve body cracks, everything else that goes wrong with a valve can be fixed without removing it. The top (below the black solenoid) unscrews providing access to the springs and solenoid and gaskets and everything.
However, if an early freeze catches you before you get your lines drained and it cracks, it still isn't much of a problem. Simply remove the black poly (seen in background below the manifold) that is moderately flexible and only pushed on to the valve ends and held with hose clamps. Then unscrew the valve (the green valve isn't glued to the white pvc, it is a threaded connection). With the valve unscrewed, you can easily screw a new one on.
PVC unions are way too expensive for an event that is really unlikely, and relatively easily fixed should it occur.
u made me chuckle
u made me chuckle
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