So as I toggled through each of the 5 subsystems on the control in the garage, Mary-Hall was out in the yard running around making note of each sprinkler location and what subsystem they were on (we got to use the two-ways -- breaker, breaker). All was looking good until we got to the last subsystem and Mary-Hall noticed a large amount of water gushing from underneath our concrete patio in the back yard.......so I figured I would be fixing a leaky sprinkler line this weekend.I started digging (and hacking through tons of very healthy tree roots -- I'm guessing this thing has been leaking for a while). After tunneling a pretty decent piece underneath the slab, I finally hit plastic -- then I began to gingerly carve out around the pipe. It was then that I noticed the oddity......
Whoever put this slab of concrete down, laid it right over the top of an existing sprinkler. That's right -- they've been watering the underside of this concrete slab for no telling how long. Crazy....
So, needless to say, I was surprised but in a good way. It was much easier to run to Lowe's and get a couple of pieces of extension to move the sprinkler out into the flower bed, than it would have been to fix a leaky section underneath that slab.
I'd probably still be digging it out right now.
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