Any Pro's out there for sprinkle systems?

I want to relandscape my front yard. It's grass right now.

I have a system but I want to take out the grass and add maybe mounds with flowers and a dry creek-bed with rock.

Question is: Do have to get a new system or can I unscrew some of the sprinklers and put longer piping and heads on them tall enough to come up through the raised flower beds.

I've just recently learned how to fix broken ones using that little tool you turn in and twist out the broken pipe with..and have replace them.(successfully- high five!!)...so I know a little about repair now...just don't no what to buy if I even can do that!!

Help?



Thanks so much!

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Any Pro's out there for sprinkle systems?
You can add to the existing piping, but if you add to many heads to one loop, the other heads will not work right. The system should be sized for amount of sprinkler heads for size of piping and water pressure. For instance, if the loop you want to add to has 6 sprinkler heads on it at 5 gallons each, and you add 2 heads at 3 gallons each, the water pressure may not be enough to pop up the heads and make the system work because the line was maxed out with the original heads. The best way is to tap into a loop with the least sprinkler heads, or add a drip system loop to the system. Tap off of the main line feeding the entire sprinkler system and add a zone valve. A drip system has a pipe that is buried through the flower bed or shrubs and it drips water out of tiny orifices. We hook small tubing to the orfices and loop the tubing thoughout the flower and shrub beds. This system waters under the ground and gets to the roots. Plus, you never see water. Its all under the ground. You will need to set the controller to water this zone for several hours instead of minutes. Hope I explained this well. Good luck!
Reply:Hey, Sure thing. You can splice the old line to add length and any garden center will have threaded risers ( a lenght of pipe with threads on each end) to get your desired height. Hope that helps