Lawn Mowing Contractor Breaking Sprinklers

Q

My Lawn Mowing Contractor seems to have broken a couple of sprinklers at the last service. Is he being careless, and what can I do to ensure no more sprinklers are broken.

A

The Lawn Mowing Contractor is always extremely careful to look out for sprinklers whenever he's mowing. The last thing a Contractor wants to do is break a sprinkler.

In over 99% of all cases where a sprinkler is broken during mowing, it is due to an incorrectly installed sprinkler which sits too high and is hidden inside longer grass, making the sprinkler invisible to his ever watchful eye.

When pop-up sprinklers are properly installed and functioning, it will become absolutely impossible for any type of lawn mower to ever break a sprinkler.

Breakages can only ever occur when sprinklers are sitting too high above ground, or when the pop-up sprayer becomes stuck and doesn't recede below the lawn's surface. Remember, they are pop-up sprinklers, they are designed for the very purpose to sit below ground level, and only ever raise in order to water the lawn. This is the very reason for their invention!

Ensure sprinklers sit below ground level, and check that all sprinklers properly recede after watering, and you'll never have a broken sprinkler again, nor have anyone trip over them. Height adjusters and risers of various lengths are sold in hardware stores for a few cents to quickly change sprinkler heights when necessary, and malfunctioning sprinklers only take a minute to disassemble and clean, or to replace.