So I'm a sprinkler system newbie.
I moved into a new house in the suburbs with an automatic spinkler system -- never had one before.
There's a long space between my house and the house next door, where there's about 6ft from my house to the privacy fence, and a relatively narrow space in the neighbor's yard as well. I have three sprinkler heads along that side wall, covering the strip in question. These 3 heads are part of my zone 5, which also includes about half of my back yard.
The neighbor also has an automatic sprinkler system.
The land slopes downward away from the houses, as it should, and the low point, elevation-wise, happens to be on my side of the fence.
It's like a swamp back there in the strip between the houses. Always muddy, practically standing water at times. (For what it's worth, I don't think there's a leak -- it was dry during the winter when the sprinklers were off.)
What should I do about it?
I don't want to turn off zone 5, because the rest of my back yard does need the water. But clearly, between me and the neighbor, the strip between the houses is getting over-watered.
Suggestions?
I moved into a new house in the suburbs with an automatic spinkler system -- never had one before.
There's a long space between my house and the house next door, where there's about 6ft from my house to the privacy fence, and a relatively narrow space in the neighbor's yard as well. I have three sprinkler heads along that side wall, covering the strip in question. These 3 heads are part of my zone 5, which also includes about half of my back yard.
The neighbor also has an automatic sprinkler system.
The land slopes downward away from the houses, as it should, and the low point, elevation-wise, happens to be on my side of the fence.
It's like a swamp back there in the strip between the houses. Always muddy, practically standing water at times. (For what it's worth, I don't think there's a leak -- it was dry during the winter when the sprinklers were off.)
What should I do about it?
I don't want to turn off zone 5, because the rest of my back yard does need the water. But clearly, between me and the neighbor, the strip between the houses is getting over-watered.
Suggestions?