Home irrigation systems are incredibly convenient; they make it easy to keep your lawn and garden lush and green without much physical labor. However, a sprinkler system can develop problems over time ...

If you leave water sitting in your sprinkler system over winter, freezing temperatures will turn that water into ice, which expands and cracks pipes, valves, and other expensive components. Come ...

If your property is equipped with an automatic lawn-sprinkler system, it’s been busy all summer keeping your grass lush and green. But now, as temperatures start to drop, it’s time to put the system ...

The type of sprinkler system (except deluge) typically depends on the environmental conditions in which the system will be used and the nature of the space being protected. Wet-Pipe Sprinkler System ...

I’ll never forget the sound I heard when my wife and I returned home from a weekend trip last summer. It was as if there was a waterfall in our kitchen. In fact, there was: A supply line had burst, ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...