Brooks has ALWAYS wanted a nice front lawn. In his mind we needed a sprinkler system so we wouldn't have to keep moving around a sprinkler at all times of the day.
He ALSO thought doing it ourselves would be the best idea and cheaper. The main reason he wanted to do it by ourselves ("ourselves" meaning the boys) is for the boys to learn the skills and also give them a chance to earn money through hard work.
Brooks had Camden do all the measuring and math stuff too. Here Brooks is going over his work.
They rented a trencher for a day to get all the lines dug.
Brooks was trying to do it in turbo mode since he has scouts that night (he is over the 11 year old scouts at our church).....even through the rain!
Well maybe he went a little TOO fast.......because he clipped our main line to the house. And it was gushing out on the street.
Scouts ended up being cancelled....and some good friends of ours came to fix the issue (which is nice because those hours without water + the muddiest kids were SUPER duper fun for me).
The natural gas lined was knicked as well.
There were some places they didn't have time to trench so the boys dug and dug.
By the end (a month later) we just wanted the stupid sprinkler system done! The wiring and electric stuff were finally finished but the filling in the trenches felt like the worst part!!! All the dirt was so matted down from stepping on it, rain, etc that it was hard to find enough dirt to fill everything in!
I'm just SO relieved to say it is finished and the sprinklers automatically coming on at 4:30am. YAY! Now we need this zoysia grass to grow back in.
Now don't ask me if we were to do it all over again if we would've done it ourselves!
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