Greetings from Saskatchewan.,

I bought a house in the fall of 1996 with underground sprinklers and
didn't know enough to blow them out before freeze up. I lucked out and only
had a few pipes burst right at the sprinkler manifold as it was above ground
and outside. The water drained out of the sprinkler heads and went into the
pipes which didn't break.
Do you have any pipes outside that are above ground that you can see
right now?. Are they broken? If not you may have gotten lucky like I did.
Only thing you can do right now is wait till spring and turn them
on...make sure the frost is out of the ground before turning the valve
on.......look for boils of water comming up in the yard grab a shovel
.....dig up the area and patch the break if there are any. If your sprinklers
pop up and start working fine, consider yourself lucky. BTW they sell the
splicing stuff at Home Depot. I'd also continue searching for your
contractor...... Hope that was of some help....Jim


"Habsfan" wrote in message
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Help all.

I had sprinklers put in last year and the guy that put them in didn't
fully get to winterize the system. He said he only got 1/2 done as he
did it too late and things were already starting to freeze. He then
said don't worry if anything is damaged he would fix under warranty.

Now guess what, I can't get ahold of him. I think he is out of
business (I wonder why)

We live in Canada so yes things freeze pretty bad, I'm just wondering
what kind of damage I can expect and how would I fix it? Would each
head need to be replaced? How bad would the damage be?

The ground is still frozen up here so a few more weeks before I can
try it out. How will I be able to tell if there is damage and where
the damage is?